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SPSP Employment Report
From the News Center
- A Winning Face Depends on the Culture of the Voter
- Why the Internet Isn’t Making Us Smarter – and How to Fight Back
- Can We Control the Influence of Others’ Emotions?
SPSP News
Community Updates
Convention Updates
Featured Career Opportunities
SPSP 2016 Awards
Apply for SPSP's Two New Awards
SPSP is pleased to launch two new annual awards in 2016: The Application of Personality and Social Psychology Award and the Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring Award. These awards were introduced to recognize and honor a wider breadth of our memberships’ work.
From the News Center
A Winning Face Depends on the Culture of the Voter
A recent social psychology study shines a light on how cultural differences affect what voters judge and value most in the facial appearance of potential leaders.
Why the Internet Isn’t Making Us Smarter – and How to Fight Back
With computers and smartphones, we have access to an Internet containing a vast store of information much bigger than any individual brain can carry – and that’s not always a good thing.
Can We Control the Influence of Others’ Emotions?
Emotion contagion has historically been thought of as an automatic, uncontrolled process. However, in many cases we may want to control the influence of others’ emotions because we believe that their response is inappropriate to the situation.
SPSP News
Member Spotlight: Julie Garcia
Dr. Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Psychology and Child Development Department at California State University, San Luis Obispo. She teaches Social Psychology, Psychology of Gender, and the Social Psychology of Prejudice, and her research explores managing multiple social identities, multiracial identity, and underrepresentation in STEM.
Read the full spotlight.
SPSP Award Nomination Portals Open March 15
The portals for SPSP's Annual Awards are open and will close June 1. Both self-nominations and nominations by a colleague or student will be accepted.
Submit nominations here.
Community Updates
M. Sc. Psychology Course Offered
Department of Psychology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India, is offering a new M. Sc. Psychology course for the academic year 2016-17.
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Convention Updates
2016 Convention Catch-up
If you didn't get a chance to attend the Annual Convention you can still catch-up on SPSP's YouTube Channel. Watch Leda Cosmides's talk from the session "Big Questions in Evolutionary Science and What They Mean for Social-Personality Psychology".
Featured Career Opportunities
Research Assistant
Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
Stanford Graduate School of Business is seeking to fill three research assistant vacancies. This is a perfect position for those looking towards graduate school in organizational behavior, marketing, social psychology, and related fields... Read more
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Career Center
Lab Manager
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI USA
Full-Time Research Assistant
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC USA
Summer Internship for Social Psychology
Sooth, Psychology Based Advice App
Virtual
Associate Professor in Social Cognition
University College London
London, UK
Postdoctoral Position
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA USA
Lecturer in Psychology
Goldsmiths, University of London
London, UK
Lecturer in Social Psychology
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
Program Officer in Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA USA
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Upcoming Events
15th Biennial Conference on Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM)
June 9 to 11, 2016
Toronto, Canada
Third International Conference on Social Identity and Health
June 16-19, 2016
Brisbane, Australia
The Psychology of Attitudes: Experience-Based Versus Information-Based Attitude Processes
July 21-24, 2016
Cologne, Germany
July 30 to August 3, 2016
Nagoya, Japan
Science of Habits: The Habit-Driver Consumer
August 25-28, 2016
Catalina Island, CA USA
Social Section Annual Conference
August 31, 2016
Mercure Holland, Cardiff UK
The Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology 2016
November 7 to 11, 2016
Port au Prince, Haiti