This post is a message from Duane Watson with the Psychonomic Society’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee: Valerie Reyna (Chair), Laura Carlson, Ivy Defoe, Jean Fox Tree, Alejandro Lleras, Janet Metcalfe, and Travis Seymour. The Psychonomic Society is committed to diversity in all of its forms. In this post, we focus on one of the diversity challenges that our […]
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It gives me great pleasure to introduce our new Digital Associate Editor, Kimele Persaud, who joined our team a few weeks ago. Welcome, Kimele, great to have you. Kimele is currently a graduate student in Psychology at Rutgers University, where she works with Dr. Pernille Hemmer on computational models of memory. Kimele started out as […]
Dobby. Dobby did it! We have a new and powerful platform for the Featured Content section of the Psychonomic webpage. The team of elves at TRG (a Hogwarts subsidiary) has worked tirelessly behind the scences to convert all our existing content to the new platform. The chief deputy elf, Ryan Stoeffler, deserves a particular “thank-you” for […]
Setting the stage: a packed room in the Austria Center Vienna, venue of the International Convention of Psychological Science from 23-25 March 2017. Six speakers from various research areas, some in the audience already tweeting about the session before it even started. The session focused on the use of Social Media to Promote Professional Development, […]
The Psychonomic Society underscored its commitment to diversity and equality in three recent posts (here, here, and here). Moreover, the Society is one of more than 160 scientific organizations that signed an open letter to President Trump to protest the Executive Order that bans visitors from a set of 7 predominantly Muslim countries. Those statements […]
Last Friday was Holocaust Memorial Day, which falls on the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz Death Camp by Soviet troops in 1945. U.S. President Trump marked the occasion with a statement, although it omitted any specific mention of the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. On the same day, Trump also […]
In these uncertain times, we send a message of unity and continued allegiance to the principles of diversity and inclusion in the field of psychology and in the Psychonomic Society. We have seen respect for women, racial and ethnic minorities as well as religious groups come under siege. We do not know what the consequences […]
Some of the other folks who were approached at their posters during the Psychonomics meeting in Boston a few weeks ago got back to me after the Thanksgiving holiday. This gives me a chance to present a few more faces of the next generation of Pyschonomes. (If you missed the first installment, it can be […]
The annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Boston drew to a close on Sunday. Continuing on from last year, I again surveyed a few posters by junior researchers on Saturday evening. The choice of posters was arbitrary, rather than random, as I didn’t toss any coins or rolled any dice to determine whom to […]
The annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society will go under way in roughly a week. The Society is looking forward to seeing you in Boston. The program has been available for some time, and there is also a mobile app. The Society is urging everyone who is planning to attend to register online rather than onsite. There […]