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I-O @ APS—Why YOU (and Everybody Else)
Should Attend the 2015 APS Convention
Cheryl Boglarsky
Human Synergistics, Inc., University of Detroit Mercy, and Capella University
Christopher W. Wiese
University of Central Florida
Reeshad S. Dalal
George Mason University
Silvia Bonaccio
University of Ottawa
From How to Memorize a Deck of Cards in
63 seconds to Changing Neurobiology with
Behavior, the 2014 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention
introduced attendees to an intriguing array
of topics related to psychological science
and its subdisciplines. Experts in the field
explored the mechanisms and consequences of stress, challenges of harnessing
current technology to enhance learning,
the responsible use of technology in education, and much more. Attendees even
had the opportunity to mingle with Philip
G. Zimbardo, although unfortunately he
did not offer to incarcerate attendees in
his famous Stanford Prison.
The 2014 Convention has come to a close,
and it’s now time to begin planning to join
us in 2015 (bring out the old, bring in the
new)! With over 25,000 members, APS is
the premiere international organization
dedicated solely to the advancement
of psychological science and the use of
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opment of public policy. The 2015 APS
Annual Convention will be held May 2124 in The Big Apple (New York City). The
APS Convention attracts internationally
renowned researchers from every area of
psychology and is well attended, with over
4,300 convention attendees last year in
San Francisco. Further, the 2015 program
will boast some of the hottest names in
psychology (Peter Bentler! Frans de Waal!
Angela Duckworth! Michael Gazzaniga!
Steven Pinker! Michael Posner! Robert
Rosenthal!). But of course the conference
wouldn’t be complete without lots of
totally awesome I-O content. Mark your
calendars—here are some events that you
won’t want to miss:
I-O Content @ APS 2015
One of the cross-cutting themes for the
2015 APS Convention is immigration (a
topical theme, to be sure!). Among the invited speakers for this theme is Gilad Chen
from the University of Maryland’s Robert
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H. Smith School of Business. Dr. Chen, who
is also the incoming editor at the Journal
of Applied Psychology, will contrast the
expatriate adjustment experience with the
experience of immigrants and will discuss
an agenda for I-O research on immigrants
and work. In our view, it is quite surprising
that I-O has not paid much attention to
this important topic, and we trust that Dr.
Chen’s talk will provide the spark for future
I-O research on the topic.
The conference will also feature an invited
address by Ed Locke, whose work on goal
setting has been wildly influential and represents a major “export” from I-O to other
areas of psychology and beyond. At the 2015
conference, Dr. Locke will speak on free will
and the illusion of determinism. Here, too,
we expect the topic to be of considerable
interest to both I-O and non-I-O audiences.
The APS Convention will also feature several
very interesting (if we say so ourselves!) I-O
invited talks by the following speakers:
• Miriam Erez, Technion
• Adam Galinsky, Columbia University
• Adam Grant, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
• Mikki Hebl, Rice University
• Louis Tay, Purdue University
In addition, the 2015 program will feature
two I-O invited symposia:
1. Opportunities and Challenges for
Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Undergraduate-Focused and
Other Small/Medium-Sized Educational Institutions
The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
2. Ostracism/Exclusion in the Workplace
The first of these symposia will be chaired
by Reeshad S. Dalal (George Mason University) and will feature presentations
from Alison O’Malley (Butler University),
Lily Cushenbery (Stony Brook University),
Jason Dahling (The College of New Jersey),
and Scott Tonidandel (Davidson College).
The second of these symposia will be
chaired by Silvia Bonaccio (University of
Ottawa) and will feature presentations
from Lance Ferris (Penn State University),
Sandra Robinson (University of British Columbia), Kristin Scott (Clemson University),
and Kip Williams (Purdue University).
In addition to the invited symposia and
talks, the I-O track of the convention program will feature several symposia and a
large number of posters submitted by I-O
researchers through the call for papers.
We encourage you to submit your work at
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/convention/call-for-submissions
Workshops
But wait, there’s more! In addition to the
I-O content at APS, the conference features several workshops that I-O psychologists should await with bated breath:
• Writing for a Popular Audience with
Chris Chabris (Union College), coauthor of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our
Intuitions Deceive Us
• Uses and Challenges of Mechanical
Turk with Michael Crump (Brooklyn
College)
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• Hacking PROCESS with Andrew Hayes
(The Ohio State University)
• Introduction to R with William Revelle
(Northwestern University)
• Experience Sampling with Tamlin Conner (University of Otago)
• Introduction to Structural Equation
Modeling with Gregory Hancock (University of Maryland)
• Big Data with Rich Gonzalez (University of Michigan)
• The New Statistics with Geoff Cummings (La Trobe University), author
of Understanding The New Statistics:
Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals, and
Meta-Analysis
• Latent Class Analysis/Latent Variables
(LCA/LV) with Katherine E. Masyn
(Harvard Graduate School of Education) (STATertainment: http://youtu.
be/H-H_k2YQBzs)
• Bayesian Analysis in JASP with Richard
Morey (University of Groningen, Netherlands), coauthor of Statistical Models in Cognition and Perception
• An Introduction to Quantile Regression
with Jessica Logan (Ohio State University)
• Models for Personal Relations with
Thomas Malloy (Rhode Island College)
Mark Your Calendars!
With a wealth of I-O and general psychology program options, the 2015 APS Annual
Convention offers unique learning opportunities for everyone in the field of psychological science. If you’re dedicated to the
advancement of scientific psychology and/
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or devoted to evidence-based practice/
policy, you won’t want to miss the symposia, invited talks, workshops, poster sessions, and other events at the convention.
There’s even a “Bring the Family” session.
The call for submissions (http://www.
psychologicalscience.org/index.php/convention/call-for-submissions) is now open
and the deadline for submitting posters is
January 31, 2015. We should note that it’s
painfully easy to submit a poster to APS:
all that’s required is an abstract and a brief
summary of the poster content. So, please
join us May 21-24, 2015, in New York City
and be the first to learn about the latest
research and developments in psychological science!
Oops! We almost forgot the most important thing about the convention! You’re
invited to join us at the I-O happy hour at
APS. If you’re not too busy guzzling your
complimentary (yes, that means free!)
drink and noshing on the delectable hors
d’oeuvres, you’ll have a great opportunity
to make new I-O connections (including
the invited I-O speakers) and catch up with
old I-O friends.
Stay connected to future developments
by following us on Twitter (https://twitter.
com/SIOPatAPS), Facebook (https://www.
facebook.com/SIOPAPS), and on my.SIOP (http://my.siop.org/Collaborate/AllGroups/Group-Activity/groupid/288). Yup,
SIOP’s APS Committee is, like, all tech-savvy and stuff!
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