Member Newsletter: May 12, 2016

SPSP 2016 Awards

Social and Personality Psychology PhD's: Where Do They Get Jobs?

This annual report on the employment of recent PhDs is part of SPSP’s continuing analysis of the field. This information is useful to students considering attending graduate school, those in a graduate program who may wish to tailor their training to particular opportunities, and graduate advisors devising training.

Read the full report.

From the News Center

Is it Too Late for Trump and Clinton to Become More Likeable

According to the old adage, one never gets a second chance to make a first impression. Might that hold true for the presidential candidates?

Morality When the Mind is Unknowable

How does the culture/mind interaction happen? Does culture merely shape social situations while leaving the underlying social cognitive processes unchanged, or does culture fundamentally alter the way that we perceive each other as we move through these social worlds?

SPSP News

Vote for SPSP's Executive Board

Election polls for SPSP's 2017 Executive Board will close on May 20. All voting members received an email containing a link to the survey. If you did not please contact info@spsp.org.

Join SPSP at APS!

Join fellow social and personality psychologists at APS in Chicago next month. There will be outstanding invited talks showcasing fresh new findings on topics such as inequality, shared experiences, meaning and happiness, the pull of the future, behavior and personality change, cultural experiences, and curiosity. Read more.

Apply for a Small Conference Grant

SPSP seeks to provide small grants to support personality and social psychological research at all levels, including conferences. Conference support will assist SPSP members in their efforts to develop and host successful conferences relevant to the personality and social psychology field.

We Want to Share Your News

Whether it’s professional (new job, book, award) or personal (wedding, children, passing of a colleague), let us help you share it with SPSP Members. Submit your announcement to be published in SPSP's Community Updates.

Convention Updates

Preconference Applications Open

Preconferences are day-long mini-conferences that kick off the SPSP Annual Convention focused on specific areas of study and research in social and personality psychology. Learn more about organizing a preconference here.

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".