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Psych Snippets
Information for Davidson Psychologists & Friends of Psychology
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Graduation Event: Psychology Open House
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The Psychology Open House is during graduation weekend. It's a great Davidson tradition, and by far the best time for all the psychology faculty to personally congratulate you and meet your family during the joyous, and busy, graduation weekend.
Saturday, May 14, 2015
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Please drop in as you can.
Dr. Greta Munger's home
Seniors -- see the email from Dr. Munger for directions
Special thanks to Dr. Munger for hosting this lovely event!
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April 20 was the annual Psychology Senior Banquet. Congratulations to ALL Psychology majors, with extra kudos to our award winners! And MANY THANKS to Bill Giduz for his terrific photos below.
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Dr. William Gatewood Workman Award - Gaylen Fronk & Lauren Skorb
Each year the Psychology Department commemorates a great man, Dr. William G. "Gaty" Workman, by bestowing an award named after him. Scholar and teacher, community servant, contributing professional, Dr. Workman exemplified the highest standards of psychology's contributions. The Psychology Department faculty bestow the Workman Award on that graduating senior(s) who come(s) closest to capturing his spirit, example, and potential for achievement.
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Dr. John Kelton Award - Alex Casmimir
John D. Kelton's work as teacher, psychologist, and Davidson icon is acknowledged in an award reflects his breadth of scholarship, love of history of psychology, and interest in intellectual challenges. Like much of Dr. Kelton's work, it acknowledges excellence and perspective and is awarded to a student for the best written essay in a Senior Capstone course in Psychology.
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Dr. Edward L. Palmer Award - Isabel McLain
In 2006 the American Psychological Association honored the Davidson College Psychology Department with one of two Inaugural Departmental Awards for the Culture of Service in the Psychological Sciences. We used the money to endow an award that honors students who have unusually strong records of service. The Department named it the Dr. Edward L. Palmer Award, in recognition of his many years of extraordinary service to this department and the broader community.
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Sigma Xi Award - Lauren Malachowski, Clarise Ballesteros, & Akanksha Das
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, includes more than 70,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. Each year the Psychology Department honors a student whose research is particularly distinctive for its excellence. While we celebrate the attainments of all of our senior thesis students, conference presenters, and other students who do research projects, the Sigma Xi Award winners have done work that best embodies the qualities of a researcher that we most admire.
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Seniors--Please share your post-graduation plans. We all wish to celebrate with you, and you are showing students in the classes behind yours examples of the exciting directions in which psychology majors go after graduation. Thanks for considering this request!
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 Tyler McFayden '14 writes, " I am thrilled to be starting graduate studies in Clinical Psychology at Virginia Tech for the upcoming Fall 2016. At VT, I will be combining two, strongly interrelated areas of study: Developmental and Clinical Psychology. On the developmental side of things, I will be housed in the iLEAP laboratory, directed by Dr. Robin Panneton, focusing on infant's emotion, attention, and perception in response to language (https://www.psyc.vt.edu/labs/infantperception). Paired with a language development niche on the developmental side, I will also be working in a clinical research setting with Dr. Susan White, who's research focuses on young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (http://www.psyc.vt.edu/labs/pi). Together, I hope to merge these two interests, language and ASDs, to study verbal language development in young children with moderate to severe ASD, and nonverbal language comprehension in high-functioning young adults on the spectrum." Congratulations, Tyler!
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- Programming for APA's annual convention in August: Memory, civility, sexuality and drugs
- Civil discourse in an uncivil world
- Avoiding a disconnect with telemental health
- Psychologist of the Nazi mind
- Discrimination linked to stress, poorer health
- Datapoint: Latest class of psychologists is more diverse
- How did you get that job? An epidemiologist and psychology professor at Mercy College, New York
- & more!
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- At NASA, Psychological Science Is Rocket Science
- To Know Thyself, Turn to Science: No matter how well we think we know our own traits, behaviors, and beliefs, experiments show that friends may have insights about us that we lack ourselves, says APS William James Fellow Timothy D. Wilson.
- The Academic Time-share: Psychological scientists in academia are increasingly dividing their time among several departments. A new research initiative aims to uncover the effects of this phenomenon.
- Brain reconciles sight and sound in different ways
- Statistics organization speaks out on P-values
- Self-driving cars need social skills
- Family support buffers the physiological effects of racial discrimination
- & more!
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Upcoming Events & Opportunities
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 Second Annual Diversity Weekend at the University of Minnesota scheduled for October 12-14, 2016, on the Minneapolis campus. The costs of transportation and lodging will be covered for applicants selected to participate in this program. See this page for the application. The deadline for receipt of these materials is August 22nd, 2016 at 5 pm (CST). Applications will be reviewed over the next two weeks and selection notifications will be sent in early September. |
 The Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture (ISPRC) at Boston College is hosting it's 16th Annual Diversity Challenge Conference October 28-29, 2016. Diversity Challenge 2016: Race, Culture, and Educating our Youths: Developing Whole People Not Widgets October 28-29, 2016
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Position Available-Full-time Lab Manager/Research Technician, Duke University
The ID Lab (Identity and Diversity Lab), directed by Dr. Sarah Gaither at Duke University in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department seeks a full-time (with benefits) lab manager/research technician beginning August or September 2016.
The initial appointment would be for one year, with the possibility to extend for additional years based on performance and continued funding. The lab manager/research technician will work closely with the PI to set up the new lab, and to kick-start the research program investigating social identities, social perceptions and the roles they play in interracial behavior with both adult and child populations.
Responsibilities include:
- overseeing day-to-day lab operations
- designing, running, and analyzing experiments with children and adults
- coordinating, training, and proactively working with undergraduate research assistants
-working with the Social Sciences Research Institute for both study implementation and participant recruitment with an emphasis on racially/ethnically diverse populations
- maintaining IRB protocols, budgeting, website, etc.
- assisting in planning lab events and meetings
Preferred qualifications:
- a bachelor's degree in social or developmental psychology or a related discipline
- one or more years of research experience, preferably with children and/or racially diverse populations
- excellent organizational and multitasking skills and the ability to work independently
- strong interpersonal, communication, and writing skills
- extremely efficient in email correspondence
- programming skills in Qualtrics, Direct RT, Media Lab, Mechanical Turk and knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite
- working knowledge of image and/or video design and editing (e.g. Photoshop, Final Cut)
This position is ideal for individuals who wish to pursue research in the future. The lab manager/research technician will be involved with scientific presentations at conferences, the writing of journal manuscripts, and the ability to start their own projects in collaboration with Dr. Gaither.
To apply, please submit a cover letter and CV/resume, and arrange to have two letters of recommendation sent to Dr. Gaither at sgaither@uchicago.edu.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Questions about this position should be directed to Dr. Gaither.
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Temple University: Research Associate III
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Job Number - TU-20382
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Campus - Main
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Full/Part Time - Ful
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Date Posted (External) - 4/26/2016
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Job Qualifications:
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The Research Associate III will use SPSS, FluidSurveys, and Mplus programming skills to create analytical datasets, construct and standardize variables, conduct data cleaning, provide and regularly update study reports, and perform multivariate statistical analyses and modeling. This position would also be responsible for training and oversight of Research Assistants in data entry duties, as well as regular collaboration with the Principal Investigator and administrative staff to support multiple grant-funded research projects. Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, or a Social/Behavioral Science and at least three (3) years of database management experience and programming skills using SPSS, SAS, or R. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Required Skills and Abilities:
*Proficiency with MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel necessary.
*Demonstrated proficiency with data analysis programs (e.g., SPSS, SAS, or R).
*Demonstrated organizational and problem solving skills.
*Demonstrated ability to multi-task and work under tight deadlines.
*Demonstrated interpersonal, communication, and collaborative skills.
*Demonstrated professional demeanor and sensitivity towards research participants.
*Ability to work evenings or occasional weekends, as required.
Preferred: *Master's degree in in Statistics, Computer Science, or a Social/Behavioral Science.
*Prior experience working with research data sets in similar field.
*Prior research experience in Psychology or related field and familiarity with either Fluid Surveys or Survey Monkey.
*This is a Grant-Funded Position.
If interested, ask Dr. Sockol for the link to apply on-line.
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Preparing & Applying for Grad School in Psychology
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This series of 12 videos takes prospective graduate students step-by-step through the preparation, application, interview and admission processes. The presenters combine decades of advising experience and research findings with evidence-based and anxiety-reducing strategies for mastering each step. Each video is 20-25 min and there is a link for supplemental handouts. |
On This Day: 09 May 
1893 - William Moulton Marston was born. Marston was a colorful student of Hugo Münsterberg whose interest in the physiology of deception led to the development of the first "lie detector." Moulton promoted his machine tirelessly, even offering to test Bruno Hauptmann, the accused Lindberg baby kidnapper. Under the pseudonym of Charles Moulton, Marston created the comic strip "Wonder Woman."
1908 - Edward H. Kemp was born. Kemp was primarily a human factors researcher whose work contributed to military training and equipment design. His academic research was in audition and his applied research dealt with sonar and radar interpretation, motivation, fatigue, and attention.
1940 - Robert A. Rescorla was born. With Allen Wagner, Rescorla developed the Rescorla-Wagner theory of classical conditioning, a simple and elegant predictor of association strength in a variety of circumstances. He has emphasized the importance of probabilistic information in the learning history of the organism. APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 1986.
1967 - Martin Seligman and Steven Maier's article "Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock" was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. The article described the "learned helplessness" paradigm.
1973 - Roger Brown's book The First Language: The Early Stages was published. Brown studied language acquisition in three children, Adam. Eve, and Sarah. By 1982, this book had been cited in over 710 other publications and was chosen as a "citation classic" by the journal Current Contents.
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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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