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, […]
Society Matters
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 […]
One of the Psychonomic Society’s journals turned 50 this year: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, more often affectionately known as AP&P, has been contributing to the scientific literature for half a century. The publisher of the journal, Springer, produced a little “happy-birthday” video: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIyPXi40uM] The Editor’s birthday perspective To further explore this milestone, I […]
(Editor in Chief: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications) Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI) is a new journal with ambitions. Not only do we want to publish first-rate cognitive research, we want to change the standard way that our discipline thinks about basic and applied research. The standard view is dichotomous: Is your research basic, […]
The Psychonomic Society launched its latest journal, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications last week. We will celebrate the new journal, under its acronym CRPI—which is pronounced “Creepee” but in a nice way—for the remainder of this week. Tomorrow we will hear from the founding editor, Jeremy Wolfe, and his thoughts about how the journal will […]