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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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Davidson College Honor Council Event
Everyday Honor: Living the Honor Code During and After Davidson
By Alexandra McArthur '09
Monday, November 09, 7:30pm
Lilly Family Gallery
Sponsored by the Chidsey Center for Leadership Development & the Vann Center for Ethics
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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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Humor &... A cross-disciplinary discussion series
Humor & Audience
Jessica Good (Psychology), Derogatory Humor
Amanda Martinez (Communication Studies & Sociology), Latino Audiences' Reactions to Stereotypical Comedy
Ann Wills (Religion), Humorous Stories about Clergy Wives
Tuesday, November 10, 4:30pm
Carolina Inn
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Davidson College Theatre Department play about human memory
The Great God Pan 
Jamie's life in Brooklyn seems fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a budding journalism career and parents who live just far enough away. But his life is thrown into turmoil by the discovery that he may have been the victim of childhood sexual abuse. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, The Great God Pan tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is unloosed into the world.
Contains adult themes and strong language. Recommended for ages 15 and up.
The performance dates to select from as follows:
Thursday, November 12 at 7:30 pm*
*preceded by a pre-show reception at 6:45 pm in the theatre's lobby
Friday, November 13 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 14 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 15 at 2:00 pm
Sunday, November 15 at 7:30 pm
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Student Perspective on Conference Attendance
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 Pooja Potharaju '16 presented her thesis research a few weeks ago at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) session of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN)meeting. She writes,"Being at SfN for the first time, I felt very humbled and grateful to be among 28,000 neuroscientists who were doing remarkably diverse work in the field. I saw presentations ranging from the neural network of brain injury from intimate-partner violence, to hippocampal volume in chronic lower back pain patients. Presenting at FUN was such a great culmination of the past year and a half of hard work with my thesis. It was rewarding to be able to engage in scientific conversation with other neuroscientists across the board and really delve into the hard questions that I was struggling to answer. I met several professors and presenters who offered some valuable insight into my project and gave me great advice as a young scientist. I'm thankful to Davidson for allowing me this opportunity, and also to Drs. Ramirez and Lom for their unwavering support and mentorship!"
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 Henry Siebentritt '17 presented his summer 2015 research last weekend at the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists. He writes, "The title of our poster was Perceiving Self-Control, and it examined several potential factors that affect how we make judgments of others' self-control. The conference was an awesome experience! The symposiums provided in-depth looks at several areas of the social psych literature, and suggested future directions. I was not super up-to-date on the literature so I was able to learn a lot about the conversations happening in the field. Then in presenting a poster I was, in a small way, able to join in on those conversations, which I feel is one of the cooler parts of research. Beyond that, I felt that I gained an appreciation for the role of conferences in aligning researchers across a region to the pursuit of common goals."
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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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| --with thanks to Dr. Barton (Prof. of Psychology Emeritus) for sharing!
Will Canu '94 was John Kello's advisee, and was on his way to a successful Bank of America when he decided with Dr. Kello's supportive advising and mentoring that he wanted to do clinical. He got his PhD at the University of Texas, and after a stop in Missouri, got to relocate in Boone at Appalachian State. He has an ADHD lab that is productive. His wife, Rebekah Fanning, is also a Davidson alum. She got a Masters at UNC-Greensboro. You see some info about her in his message below, as well. He's just been promoted to Full Professor. Dr. Canu was an Outside Examiner one year, and he recently shared the following with Dr. Barton, "...turns out I am in England this term. I'm leading our "Psychology in Staffordshire" group at Keele University. Whole family is here with me. The workload is light without the typical service and freed of needing to maintain the lab back at ASU (though have several projects still ongoing, of course). It's pretty sweet. Next term I have our equivalent of a sabbatical and we will be in France, me focusing on research and specifically completing some writing that I have not been able to get to. It's a very exciting and gratifying year after just having made the jump to prof... Rebekah is doing well, she's the captain of our family. We are home-schooling, not just this year but as of last year, and she's mainly driving that and organization of a kind of alternative homeschool coop with like-minded families, doing a lot of learning about how it all works "
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 November 2015 Monitor on Psychology includes: - Easing pain
- Who are today's psychologists?
- Marijuana and the developing brain
- & more!
- Campaigning for social change
- Too much coffee?
- Odd jobs: Psychology and aviation
- How to write an impressive cover letter
- & more!
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 November 2015 Observer includes: - Relief
- Measuring pain
- Bayes for Beginners
- World Bank Puts Psychological Science on World Stage
- Confidence Spills Over Across Unrelated Decisions
- & more!
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Pre-med talk with Psychology Alumna
Burn, Blood, and Bone: Defining the Pathophysiology of Heterotopic Ossification
By Rivka Iherjirika '09, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine M.D Candidate 2016 who is currently applying for residency positions in Orthopedic Surgery
Additionally, Rivka will share tips on how to get involved in research as a pre-med/medical student/aspiring doctor, what medical schools are really looking for in an applicant, and how to be a successful medical school applicant even if you are not Premed at Davidson!
Wednesday, November 18 | 7:30pm
Chambers 3155
Refreshments will be served.
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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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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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 Carolinas Psychology Conference April 16, 2016
- Abstract Submission 12 March 2016
- Will take place at Campbell University in Lundy Fetterman School of Business, Buies Creek,NC
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On This Day: 09 November
1898 - Leonard Carmichael was born. His contributions were in the areas of child psychology and biopsychology, with special emphasis on the importance of genetic determinants of behavior. Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology (1946) was a milestone in the scientific treatment of human development. APA President, 1940.
1898 - Harry Helson was born. Helson's best known studies were in the areas of color vision and adaptation level theory, a general proposal that judgments of experience are relative to a reference point that shifts with past experience and current background stimuli. Society of Experimental Psychologists Warren Medal, 1959; APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 1962.
1899 - Alfred Binet joined and became advisor to La Société Libre Pour L'Étude Psychologique de L'Enfant (The Free Society for the Psychological Study of Children). Binet started publication of the society's Bulletin in 1900 and became president of the society in 1902. Both the society and its bulletin became major conduits of Binet's work. In 1917, the society was renamed La Société Alfred Binet and in 1961 it became La Société Alfred Binet et Thédore Simon.
1900 - Bluma Wulfomna Zeigarnik was born. The Zeigarnik effect is a principle of Gestalt psychology that describes the tendency for incomplete tasks to occupy one's attention.
1942 - Ignacio Martín-Baró was born. Martín-Baró was a social psychologist who promoted a culturally relevant science applied to the problems of Latin America. He founded the journal Revista de Psicologia de El Salvador. Martín-Baró was killed in 1989 by men in military uniforms during a raid on a Jesuit residence on a university campus in El Salvador.
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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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