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Psych Snippets
Information for Davidson Psychologists & Friends of Psychology
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This Week's Opportunities
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Vann Center for Ethics Forum
Ethics in Information Access
A panel featuring Library staff Cara Evanson, Kevin Smith, and Sarah Crissinger
Tuesday, October 20, 11:05 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. (Common Hour)
C. Shaw Smith 900 Room, Alvarez College Union
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North Carolina I/O Psychologists: Friday, October 23, 2015 from 9:00 - 2:30
- in Raleigh, NC at Red Hat Corporate (100 East Davie Street)
- will include a light breakfast & lunch for attendees
- morning session: Red Hat's innovative culture and work
- afternoon session: breakout sessions focusing on diversity and inclusion applied issues
Any student who is interested is invited to attend. Dr. Kello and Dr. Tonidandel often take students. Please let Dr. Tonidandel know if you are thinking about attending. Dr. Kello or Dr. Tonidandel may be able to provide transportation. Note - there is a small fee ($15) but lunch and drinks are included.
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Get tickets for Wearn Lecture
The Wearn Lecture takes place on Monday, November 2 at 7pm in Tyler-Tallman Hall. The 2015-16 Wearn Lecturer is Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute. His talk is titled What Neurology Can Tell Us About the Human Mind. The lecture will illustrate how strange syndromes such as phantom limbs and synesthesia can give us fundamental insights into elusive questions about the mind, such as body image and creativity. Ramachandran is renowned for his work in neurology and perceptual psychology. He has been called the "Marco Polo of neuroscience" by Oxford's Richard Dawkins, and "The modern Paul Broca" by Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel. TIME Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Tickets are free, but required, and are available at the ticket office in the Union, or online at www.davidson.edu/tickets. Tickets will be available to Davidson students, faculty, and staff starting Sep. 28 and are limited to two tickets per Davidson ID.
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Munger, M. P. (2015):.The ministry of silly walks' report: representational momentum sensitive to awkwardness following action, not single posture, Visual Cognition, 23, 796-808. doi:10.1080/13506285.2015.1085478
Congratulations, Dr. Munger!
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Malachowski, L., Leyva, D.,Tamis-LeMonda, C., & Yoshikawa, H. (2015, October). Stability and changes in maternal autonomy support from kindergarten to first grade: Predicting executive function skills in a low-income and ethnically diverse sample. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society (CDS), Columbus, OH.
Photograph of Lauren Malachowski '16 and Dr. Leyva, respectively, courtesy of Dr. Leyva.
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Student Perspective on Conference Attendance
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Lauren writes, "Attending the CDS conference was an overwhelming but rewarding experience. I've certainly never learned so much from so many brilliant and well-known researchers in a 24-hour period! Overall, it broadened my view of research and gave me a helpful "sneak peak" into the world of psychology academia. I know I am lucky to have experienced this as an undergraduate student!"
Dr. Leyva adds, "She also won a raffle and was given an autographed copy of the book by Henry Wellman (2014), Making Minds, which won the CDS 2015 book award."
Congratulations, Lauren & Dr. Leyva!
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Chambers 1015 -- Congrats again, Dr. Kello!
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In addition to advice from your academic advisor, these videos may help you with WebTree:
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Davidson in India - Fall 2015 with Dr. Munger
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Follow your fellow psychology students' adventures at the program's travel blog and two course blogs:
Best wishes to the group for safe travels and an enriching semester!
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Psychology-focused Study Abroad Spring 2016
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Meredith College is opening our Psychology-focused study abroad semester this Spring to qualified female undergraduates from other institutions. Students will live and study in Meredith's palazzo in Sansepolcro, Italy, a small Tuscan town about 1.5 hours from Florence.
Applications are due by November 1. Click here for more information.
Thanks to Dr. Barton (emeritus psy prof) for passing this along!
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Wearn Lecture
What Neurology Can Tell Us About the Human Mind
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, distinguished professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor of biology at the Salk Institute
Monday, November 02, 7:00pm
Tyler-Tallman Hall
Tickets are free, but required, and are available at the ticket office in the Union, or online at www.davidson.edu/tickets. Tickets will be available to Davidson students, faculty, and staff starting Monday, Sept. 28, and are limited to two tickets per Davidson ID
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Vann Center for Ethics Forum
Bioethics Fellowships at the Mayo Clinic
By Akanksha Das '16 and Max Feinstein '16
Tuesday, November 10, Common Hour (11:05 am)
Room 209, Alvarez College Union
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Psych Table Schedule
Special thanks to Ms. Murdock for her graphic design skills!
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The Psychology Department introduces PsychTable: An informal lunch chat with your favorite psychology professors.
The PsychTable fall schedule is below. Students are encouraged to use their meal plans to participate in these events. Locations may vary; stay tuned!
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NC Psychological Association Psychology Undergraduate Conference
November 14, 2015 - 10am - 4:30pm
- at NC Central University, Durham, NC
- Abstracts due via email to Carol Kulwicki by 16 October 2015
- Undergraduates from first-year through seniors are welcome
- Poster session will be noon - 1:30pm with set up after 10am
Thanks to Dr. Barton (emeritus Psy prof) for passing along the information!
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National Conference on Undergraduate Research: April 7-9, 2016
- Student Abstract Submission and Application Deadline: 02 December 2015
- Follow link above for more details
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On This Day: 19 October
1828 - The first clear relationship between epilepsy and a local cortical lesion was provided by Richard Bright, a physician at Guy's Hospital, London. While Bright provided many cases as evidence, his conclusion was not generally accepted until the works of Hughlings Jackson were published, beginning in 1863.
1871 - Walter B. Cannon was born. His area of concentration was the physiology of emotion. Cannon's theories, later elaborated by Philip Bard, were first thoroughly treated in Cannon's book Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage (1915). Cannon was head of the Department of Physiology at Harvard University from 1906 to 1940.
1891 - Lois Meek Stolz was born. Stoltz was a developmental psychologist interested in early childhood education. She was a founder and first president of the National Association for Nursery Education (1929). At the time, there were only 80 nursery schools in the United States. She later helped to establish the Oakland Growth Study and developed indexes of adolescent growth.
1950 - Erik H. Erikson's Childhood and Society was published.
1961 - Georg von Békésy won the Nobel prize for his studies of the physiology of hearing. He provided evidence for the traveling wave theory of pitch perception.
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The mission of the Davidson College Psychology Department is to provide students with an outstanding education in all aspects of the science and practice of psychology. As committed teachers, researchers, practitioners, and advisers, we offer our students a rigorous curriculum of courses, research opportunities, and field experiences, combined with individualized mentoring. Thus are our students fully prepared to use their knowledge of psychology to flourish and to reach their highest level of professional attainment in their lives after Davidson. Critical to this mission, the department continuously works to maintain its standing as a nationally recognized center of psychological research and scholarship by supporting, encouraging, and facilitating the professional development of its faculty and staff. As psychologists who are dedicated to contributing to our discipline, we maintain a positive climate of collegiality, collaboration, high standards, and overall daily excellence within the department, from which our faculty as well as our students benefit both personally and professionally.
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