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| SPSP Members Weigh In: Advice for First-Year PhD Students |
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Current graduate student members and those who have already obtained their PhDs offered advice for appreciating learning, achieving academic success, relating to advisors, and preparing to launch your career.
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| Get to Know Kay Deaux, Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award |
In an SPSP interview, as well as through her address given during the 2017 SPSP Annual Convention, Kay Deaux shares her thoughts on cross-disciplinary collaboration, following one’s passion, and more.
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| APS’s Annual Convention is a Place For Us |
| SPSP member Kathleen Vohs, who is serving as the social area program chair on APS’s convention program committee, writes about the benefits of attending and this year’s programming. |
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| Community Updates |
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| Member Spotlight: Kirk W. Brown |
| Kirk Warren Brown is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include consciousness, mindfulness, and the self. |
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| Megan Chisum Awarded Power of Women Scholarship |
| Congratulations to Megan, an SPSP undergraduate student member, on receiving the $500 award from Southeast Missouri State University! |
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| We Want to Share Your News |
| Share your news with the SPSP community, whether it’s professional (a new job, book, or award) or personal (a wedding, children, or the passing of a colleague). |
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| Convention Updates |
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| Program Submission Guides Coming Soon! |
| Program submission guides for #SPSP2018 will be available soon. These lay out the information that will be collected when the program submissions portal opens in July, so that you can prepare. |
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| Things to Do in Atlanta: The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra |
| The 95-member Atlanta Symphony Orchestra puts on over 200 performances annually, and they’ve received over 24 Grammy Awards. Take in a classical, pops, or family concert during your stay! |
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| Things to Do in Atlanta: Bicycle Tours of Atlanta |
| Outdoor enthusiasts, unite! You can explore a variety of Atlanta neighborhoods with a three-hour bike tour. Try the Fall in Love with Atlanta, Street Art, or Twilight tours. |
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| News Center |
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| When Social Status is Bad for Health |
| New research suggests that while it may often be healthy to see oneself as high status, when one’s perceptions are inconsistent with other evidence about one’s social relationships, higher subjective social status has the potential to be unhealthy. |
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| Making Friends While Pursuing Goals |
| Student Poster Award winners describe their research concerning how influence beliefs shape our interactions with newly minted acquaintances engaging in goal-directed behaviors. |
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| The Secret to Easy Theory |
| A new and simple way to depict theory uses theory mapping, a technique that visually maps out the connections between concepts, allowing people to understand the contours of a field at a glance. |
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| Tell Us About Your Research |
| If you’ve recently been in the news, have research you want to share with the media, or are interested in writing for our blog, please email SPSP’s Public & Media Relations Manager! |
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| 4/29 - 5/1/17: International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2017, Budapest, Hungary |
| 6/6 - 6/7/17: 5th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, Prague, Czech Republic |
| May - August 2017: 2017 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI, & Other Cities |
| May - June 2017: APA Summer 2017 Advanced Training Institutes, Arizona State University, Michigan State University, University of Cincinnati |
| 6/6 - 6/7/17: APA Workshop, How to Share Research Data, Qualcomm Institute at Calit2; University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, CA |
| 6/25 - 6/29/17: International Academy for Intercultural Research, Staten Island, NY |
| 7/4/17: EASP Relationship & Health Conference, Grenada, Spain |
| 7/12 - 7/14/17: 18th International Reversal Theory Conference, Swansea University, Wales, UK |
| 8/24 - 8/27/17: Science of Habits - Behavior Change Interventions for Health Habits, Two Harbors, Catalina Island, California, USA |
| 8/29 - 9/1/17: 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 10/12 - 10/14/17: ARUPS Congress 2017, Bali, Indonesia |
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| Additional Job Openings |
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| 2 PhD Positions to Investigate Motivation, Decision-Making, and Goal Pursuit Processes, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) |
| European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) of the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Post Doc at ERCOMER, Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Research Associate, Behavioural Research Lab Manager, University of Toronto |
| Post Doctoral Fellow - Behavioral Science of Ethics and Decision-Making, Geisinger Health System |
| Post-doc Position in Healthy Aging, Lifespan Emotional Development Lab, Northeastern University |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National University of Singapore |
| Assistant Professor (Non-Tenure Track), Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 2 Tenured Assistant/Associate Professorships, Goldsmiths, University of London |
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