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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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Clinical Research Methods (Psy 314) Poster Session
Please join us for a poster session presenting results from three studies conducted by students in this semester's Clinical Research Methods course. Refreshments will be served!
Monday, December 07 | 10:20-11:20am
Watson 132
Impact of a Written Self-Compassion Task on State Self-Compassion and Empathy
Alex Casimir
Akanksha Das
Nadia Glover
Brodie Martin
Effects of a Character Strengths Intervention on Anxiety and Affect
Brigid Behrens
Abbey Driscoll
Gaylen Fronk
Owen Swetenburg
The Effect of Emotion and Content Based Warnings on Emotional Reactivity
Alexis Kaminski
Gabe Rivera
Andy Simmons
Susanna Vogel
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Good luck taking/grading finals!
Safe travels & best wishes for a renewing break!
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Dana Dunn edited the just-released Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education (all 927 pages of it!), and the frontispiece says, "In Honor of Ruth L. Ault--Dedicated Teacher, Scholar, and Friend." For those who do not know her, Dr. Ault is Professor Emerita of Psychology; she recently retired after roughly 35 years of teaching at Davidson College.
Congratulations, Dr. Ault, on this wonderful honor!
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Dr. Tonidandel has two pieces of great news:
- His edited volume, Big Data at Work, has come out in print.
- He was awarded an REU Supplement from NSF that will provide summer support, conference travel, and school year support for two additional Davidson students to work on his grant with his team over the next few years.
--Congratulations on both counts, Dr. Tonidandel, and
thanks to Dr. Ramirez for sharing this news!
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Lindsey Lassiter '15 writes, "I am a class of 2015 graduate of Davidson and currently working with City Year Dallas, an AmeriCorps program based on serving urban city children and focused on improving their attendance, behavior, and course performance through daily tutoring and partner teacher assistance centered in the English and Math departments. I am working in an urban middle school with a 6th grade reading class, which has been both challenging and uplifting, yet also revealing to me that I have a strong passion for teaching and working with children. I am now especially interested in helping kids in similar areas build academic foundations, working hopefully as a teacher in an elementary school, so that they would be able to more successfully handle the middle and upper school experience. I have recently been accepted to pursue this opportunity with an organization entitled the Dallas Teacher Residency, which allows for participants the ability to earn their Master's degree in Education in only 14 months at the University of Texas A&M at Commerce while also receiving experience in the classroom with a mentor teacher along their side."
--Congratulations & good luck, Lindsey!
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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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Request for Help - St. Mary's College Senior Thesis
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You are invited to participate in a study that examines women's views towards the media and women's representations in it. This is a short study that will take about 15-20 minutes, and will help me to complete my senior research project. Your participation is much appreciated!
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- Life after prison: Easing transition for former inmates
- Helping children recover from trauma
- What's confidential--and what's not in therapy
- Could the psychedelic drug psilocybin help ease the existential distress common in people with cancer?
- 25 years post the Americans with Disabilities Act
- & more!
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- Using sound to get around
- Redefining fear
- Changing the climate on climate change
- Satiated, stuffed, and spatially impaired?
- Reducing intergroup conflict through contact
- & more!
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Diversifying Clinical Psychology Weekend at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Thursday, April 7 through Saturday, April 9, 2016 on the UNC campus
Application Deadline: January 15, 2016
(notification by March 4, 2016)
Our Diversifying Clinical Psychology Weekend is an opportunity for talented ethnic/racial minority undergraduates and recent college graduates who are invested in pursuing doctoral-level training in clinical psychology. The program includes an intensive set of seminars, panel discussions, and workshops. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to develop a competitive application; meet clinical psychology doctoral students and faculty in formal and informal settings; and receive an introduction to our Clinical Psychology program and graduate training. Travel, housing, and meals are provided for all attendees.
Eligible applicants must:
- Be enrolled at a college or university as a sophomore, junior, or senior; OR have graduated with an undergraduate degree within the past two years;
- Identify as an ethnic/racial minority traditionally underrepresented in clinical psychology; and
- Have a strong interest in pursuing a doctoral degree in clinical psychology.
If you are eligible and interested, we encourage you to apply. Materials required for application include:
--Thanks to Dr. Sockol for passing this information along!
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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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Contact Dr. Verna Case with questions
Application deadline: January 29, 2016
June 6, 2016 - August 5, 2016
Apply NOW (admissions decisions late Feb/early March 2016)
deadlines in early February 2016
June 12, 2016 - August 6, 2016
Application deadline: February 1, 2016
May 15-20, 2016 | UNC - Charlotte
Application Deadline: February 5, 2016
The mission of OSSI is to diversify the pipeline for graduate education in Organizational Science. Ideal OSSI Fellows are sophomore/junior level in college, interested in studying organizations, planning to attend graduate school in an Org Science-related field, and are members of an underrepresented ethnic and/or racial student population (e.g., Latino, African-American, Native American). Grant Thomas, class of 2013, attended the OSSI as a rising senior and loved it.
May 28, 2016 - July 23, 2016 | Oklahoma State University
Application deadline: March 4, 2016
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On This Day: 07 December
1895 - Francis Cecil Sumner was born. Sumner was the first African American to earn a PhD in psychology (1920). His many translations, book reviews, and abstracts reflected broad interests, with a focus on social psychology.
1910 - Eleanor Jack Gibson was born. Gibson's work in perceptual development led to the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 1968. Her "visual cliff" experiments are particularly well-known. She was the second female psychologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1971). National Medal of Science, 1992.
1924 - Frank Joseph McGuigan was born. McGuigan was director of the Institute for Stress Management at United States International University, and wrote extensively about stress and tension control and covert language behavior. McGuigan was nominated twice for the Nobel prize in physiology. American Psychological Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award (1973) and Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement (1995).
1928 - Noam Chomsky was born. Chomsky's transformational generative grammar represents a modern nativistic approach to thought and language. His views strongly countered theories of language that were based on elaborations of simple learning processes. APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 1984.
1980 - The Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences was founded. Eight scientific societies were charter members. George Mandler was elected president and Emanuel Donchin vice president. The Federation educates policymakers, serves as an advocate for psychology, and informs member organizations about funding and policy issues.
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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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