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John C. Norcross, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor of Psychology and Distinguished University Fellow at the University of Scranton, a clinical psychologist in part-time practice, and an internationally recognized authority on behavior change and psychotherapy. Author of more than 300 scholarly publications, Dr. Norcross has co-written or edited 16 books, including Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health (APA; with Beutler and Levant), Psychotherapy Relationships that Work (Oxford University Press), the Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Resources in Mental Health (Guilford Press), Changing for Good (Avon; with Prochaska and DiClemente), the Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration (Oxford University Press; with Goldfried), the Psychologists' Desk Reference (Oxford University Press; with Koocher and Hill), and Systems of Psychotherapy: A Transtheoretical Analysis (Brooks/Cole; with Prochaska). He is past-president of the International Society of Clinical Psychology, past-president of the APA Division of Psychotherapy, Council Representative of the American Psychological Association, and on the Board of Directors of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. Dr. Norcross is also editor of Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session and has been on the editorial boards of a dozen journals. Dr. Norcross has served as a clinical and research consultant to a number of organizations, including the National Institute of Mental Health. He has received many professional awards, such as APA’s Distinguished Contributions to Education & Training Award, Pennsylvania Professor of the Year from the Carnegie Foundation, the Rosalee Weiss Award from the American Psychological Foundation, and election to the National Academies of Practice. His work has been featured in hundreds of media interviews, and he has appeared on many national shows, such as the Today Show, CBS News Sunday Morning, and Good Morning America. An engaging teacher and clinician, John has conducted workshops and lectures in 24 countries. He lives in the northeast Pennsylvania with his wife, two children, and their deranged cat. |
| Session Chair: Ken Weaver, Ph.D., Emporia State University |
Unconscious Social Cognition: Research, Teaching, and Self-DiscoverySaturday, August 18, 2007 |
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Mahzarin R. Banaji, Ph.D. Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics |
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Unconscious Social Cognition: Research, Teaching, and Self-DiscoveryI will describe a program of research to discover the nature of how unconscious
social cognition works; its relationship to conscious attitudes, beliefs,
and identity; the behaviors of consequence it predicts; its development
in early childhood; and its malleability in response to internal and external
interventions. Through this discussion we'll see that when a scientist
is truly fortunate, her research can serve, in addition to a research
function, an educational one as well. |
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| Mahzarin Rustum Banaji was born and
raised in Secunderabad, India. Her B.A. is from Nizam College and her M.A.
in Psychology from Osmania University in Hyderabad. She received her Ph.D.
from Ohio State University (1986), was a postdoctoral fellow at University
of Washington , and taught at Yale University from 1986 until 2001 where
she was Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology. In 2002 she moved to
Harvard University as Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in
the Department of Psychology and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study.
Banaji is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 3, 8 and 9), and the American Psychological Society. She served as Secretary of the APS, on the Board of Scientific Affairs of the APA, and on the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. She was elected fellow of the Society for Experimental Psychologists in 2005. Banaji has served as Associate Editor of Psychological Review and of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and is currently Co-Editor of Essays in Social Psychology. She serves on the editorial board of several journals, among them Psychological Science, Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and The DuBois Review . Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Third Millennium Foundation. Banaji was Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale for several years, chaired APS's Task force on Dissemination of Psychological Science, and served on APA's Committee on the Conduct of Internet Research. Among her awards, she has received Yale's Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence, a James McKeen Cattell Fund Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2000, her work with R. Bhaskar received the Gordon Allport Prize for Intergroup Relations. With Anthony Greenwald and Brian Nosek, she maintains an educational website that has accumulated over 3 million completed tasks measuring automatic attitudes and beliefs involving self, other individuals, and social groups. It can be reached at www.implicit.harvard.edu , and details of the research may be found at www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~banaji Banaji studies human thinking and feeling as it unfolds in social context. Her focus is primarily on mental systems that operate in implicit or unconscious mode. In particular, she is interested in the unconscious nature of assessments of self and other humans that reflect feelings and knowledge (often unintended) about their social group membership (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, gender, class). From such study of attitudes and beliefs of adults and children, she asks about the social consequences of unintended thought and feeling. Her work relies on cognitive/affective behavioral measures and neuroimaging (fMRI) with which she explores the implications of her work for theories of individual responsibility and social justice. |
| Session Chair: Ted Bosack, Ph.D., Providence College |
| Saul Kassin is a Distinguished Professor
of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York (although
on leave, he is also the Massachusetts Professor of Psychology at Williams
College). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut, after
which he served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Kansas;
taught at Purdue University; served as a U. S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellow,
working at the Federal Judicial Center; and was a postdoctoral fellow and
visiting professor at Stanford University.
Dr. Kassin is author of introductory and social psychology textbooks and wrote the Psychology and Social Psychology entries for Microsoft's Encyclopedia, Encarta. He has also co-authored or edited a number of scholarly books, including: Confessions in the Courtroom, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives, and Developmental Social Psychology. Dr. Kassin has published numerous research articles on police interrogations and the elicitation of confessions as well as the psychology of eyewitness identifications and testimony. He has also studied the impact of these (and other) types of evidence on jurors and jury decision-making. Dr. Kassin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He has served on the editorial board of Law and Human Behavior since 1986. He lectures frequently to judges, lawyers, psychologists, and law enforcement groups; has appeared as an analyst on numerous television and radio news shows; and has served as a consultant and expert witness in federal, military, and state courts. |
| Session Chair: Bernard C. Beins, Ph.D., Ithaca College |
Up-tight, Laid-back, and Jumpy MonkeysSaturday, August 18, 2007 |
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Stephen Suomi, Ph.D.Chief, Laboratory of Comparative EthologyNational Institute of Child Health & Human Development National Institutes of Health, DHHS 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 8030, MSC7971 Bethesda, MD 20892-7971 EMAIL: ss148k@nih.gov PHONE: 301-496-9550 FAX: 301-496-0630 |
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Up-tight, Laid-back, and Jumpy MonkeysRecent research has found marked individual differences in patterns of rhesus monkey biobehavioral development throughout the life span. Approximately 20% of monkeys growing up in naturalistic settings consistently display unusually fearful and anxious-like behavioral reactions to novel, mildly stressful social situations throughout development; another 5-10% are likely to exhibit impulsive and/or inappropriately aggressive responses under similar circumstances. These distinctive behavioral patterns and their biological correlates appear early in life and remain remarkably stable from infancy to adulthood. Both genetic and experiential mechanisms are implicated not only in the expression of these patterns but also in their transmission across successive generations of monkeys. For example, a specific polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene is associated with deficits in infant neurobehavioral functioning and in juvenile and adolescent control of aggression and serotonin metabolism in monkeys who experienced insecure early attachments but not in monkeys who developed secure attachment relationships with their mothers during infancy (“maternal buffering”). Moreover, because the attachment style of a monkey mother is typically “copied” by her daughters when they grow up and become mothers themselves, similar buffering is likely to occur for the next generation of infants carrying that specific polymorphism. |
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| Stephen J. Suomi, Ph.D.
is Chief of the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology at the National Institute
of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. He also holds appointments as Research
Professor at the University of Virginia (Psychology), the University of
Maryland, College Park (Human Development), and The Johns Hopkins University
(Mental Hygiene), and is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University (Psychology),
the Pennsylvania State University (Human Development) and the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County (Psychology). Dr. Suomi studied Psychology
as an undergraduate at Stanford University, then continued his studies as
a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, receiving his
Ph.D. in Psychology in 1971. Dr. Suomi then joined the Psychology faculty
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he eventually attained the
rank of Professor. In 1983 he left Wisconsin to join the NICHD, when he
began his present position.
Dr. Suomi has received international recognition for his extensive research on biobehavioral development in rhesus monkeys and other primate species. His initial postdoctoral research successfully reversed the adverse effects of early social isolation, previous thought to be permanent, in rhesus monkeys. His subsequent research at Wisconsin led to his election as Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science ‘for major contributions to the understanding of social factors that influence the psychological development of nonhuman primates.” Since joining the NICHD he has identified heritable and experiential factors that influence individual biobehavioral development, characterized both behavioral and physiological features of distinctive rhesus monkey phenotypes, and demonstrated the adaptive significance of these different phenotypes in naturalistic settings. His present research focuses on 3 general issues: the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in shaping individual developmental trajectories, the issue of continuity vs. change and the relative stability of individual differences throughout development, and the degree to which findings from monkeys studied in captivity generalize not only to monkeys living in the wild but also to humans living in different cultures. Throughout his professional career Dr. Suomi has been the recipient of
numerous awards and honors. To date, he has authored or co-authored over
350 articles published in scientific journals and chapters in edited volumes.
He has also delivered over 350 invited colloquia, symposium and workshop
presentations, and convention papers in the U.S. and in 15 foreign countries. |
| Session Chair: Rita Curl-Langager, Ph.D., Minot State University |
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