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[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ur new website went live on May 29 2014!
Many thanks to Paolo at New Tree Design and to Professor Timothy Bates for making this happen!
From DNA to Social Minds: June 30 – July 1, 2014, York, UK
This meeting will address the links from DNA and genetics, to Social Behavior
York UK, June 30th/July 1st 2014
https://sites.google.com/site/fromdnatosocialminds
2013: Melbourne, Australia: December 12-14
The conference program is here (pdf).
Lifetime Achievement Award: Linda Gottfredson: Empirical Treasure, Lost and Found
Distinguished contributor Interview: Nicholas Mackintosh
Update: Professor Nicholas Mackintosh passed away in February of 2015. We are so pleased to have this enduring record of Professor Nicholas Mackintosh's Distinguished Contributor Interview.
He is keenly missed. Among academics he was remembered by colleagues as, variously, a pioneer in associative learning theory, a wonderful head of department at Cambridge, and a leading promoter of calm ...
2013 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology
Natalie Borter
Biosketch:
Natalie grew up in Oberems (Switzerland). She received her Master of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Bern, where she currently is a doctoral student at the Department of Personality, Differential Psychology, and Psychological Testing and Assessment. Her current research interests are in modeling methods (e.g., latent growth curves and fixed-links models) to dissociate various components of response time variance. She is particularly interested in the functional relationship between these components and psychometric intellige...
2013 ISIR Prize for Best Student Paper
Simon Jackson
Biosketch: Simon completed his Bachelor of Science, Psychology (Honours class 1) at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently completing his PhD on individual differences in decision making, investigating the role of cognitive abilities and metacognitive confidence. In particular, Simon’s aim is to understand how psychological processes are translated into competent and incompetent choice behaviour. This is being done under the primary supervision of Dr Sabina Kleitman (University of Sydney), and the co-supervision of Professor Lazar Stankov, ...
