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Member Society Events in DC

On October 24, Prudence L. Carter (University of California, Berkeley), presented the AERA Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research: “A Shade Less Offensive”: School Integration as Radical Inclusion in the Pursuit of Educational Equity.

On November 5, SPSSI held a congressional lunch briefing on Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice presented by Dr. Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Hiram College.  Read more  »

Apply and Nominate

• 2020 NIH Matilda White Riley Honors Distinguished Lecture (Nov 15)
• Evidence Fellowship - Office of Evaluation Services (Nov 20)
• Annual Fellowship - Office of Evaluation Services (Dec 15)
• Golden Goose Award Nominations (Dec 20)
• SRCD U.S. Policy Fellowship Programs (Jan 3)
• Policy Fellowships - American Psychological Association (Jan 5)

Attend

• Integrating Virtual Reality into Psychotherapy for Anxious Youth (Nov 12, Webinar)
• Advancing Basic Research to Inform the Science of Suicide (Nov 12, Washington, DC)
• 2019 NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival: Connecting People to Advance Health (Dec 6, Bethesda, MD)

Funding

• NIH: Discovery and Validation of Novel Targets for Safe and Effective Pain Treatment (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (Due Nov 12)
• NIH: Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition (B/Start) (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
• NIH: Accelerating the Pace of Child Health Research Using Existing Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (R21-Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
• NIH: Computational Approaches for Validating Dimensional Constructs of Relevance to Psychopathology (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
• NIH: Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
• NIH: Research on Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Read

• Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 2 
• Reading the Brain’s Map: Coordinated Brain Activation Supports Spatial Learning and Decision-Making - NIMH
• Frequent social contact in midlife may reduce dementia risk, Whitehall II study analysis shows - NIA
• Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life - Washington Post
• We Need Your Feedback on Research Topics: Who Gets Voted Off the Island? - Mark Schneider, IES

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• Psychology in the Real World FABBS video series
• Who Cares What Science Says? - Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda and Chris Volpe
• Game-changing Technologies Brought to You by NSF
• SAGE Social Science Terminology Thesaurus 
• FABBS Diversity Resources Database

• National Academy of Neuropsychology Annual Conference (Nov 13-16, San Diego, CA) 
• Society for Computers in Psychology Annual Meeting (Nov 14, Montreal, Canada)
• Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting (Nov 14-17, Montreal, Canada)
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making Annual Meeting (Nov 15-18, Montreal, Canada)

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