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Dialogue 25 1 Final No Drawings The Official Newsletter of the Society for E Personality and DIALOGU Social Psychology Volume 25, No. 1 Spring, 2010 Spring 2010 Co-Editors: Hart Blanton & Diane Quinn Inside the Current A River Runs Through It: Issue: SPSP Heads to San Antonio in 2011 Committee Reports: The next SPSP convention will be held in beautiful San Antonio, Diversity & Climate 6-7 Texas on January 27-29th, 2011. The meeting will be held at the San Antonio Convention Center and the hotels are the Grand Training 7 Hyatt and the Hyatt Regency. These hotels are located on the San Publication 10 Antonio River Walk, a lovely area with restaurants, bars, and APA 14-15 shops built along the river. Malcom Gladwell, best-selling author Graduate Student 20-21 of Blink and The Tipping Point, will give a keynote address. Executive 1, 16-17 President’s Column State of SPSP: Jennifer Crocker 4-5 News from the Executive Committee Meeting Choosing Conven- tion Locations 2 The SPSP Executive Committee transition to new Executive Offi- held its bi-annual meeting on cer, Jack Dovidio, and new Dep- Summer Institute st st on Health 3 January 31 and February 1 fol- uty Executive Officer, Linda lowing the SPSP convention in Dovidio, will take place. Publishing Myths Las Vegas, Nevada. The execu- Christie Marvin will continue as 8-9 tive committee first expressed a Executive Assistant, and David Jack Dovidio great deal of gratitude to David will take on a few tasks as Associ- SPSP Travel Dunning for his excellent work as ate Executive Officer. Awards 12 the executive officer of SPSP for The reports from each committee the last 5 years. In addition to were then given and discussed. Travel Section: keeping SPSP in tip-top shape, he Liberal Arts Because reports from several of 18-19 has taken on many of the behind Setting the committees appear in this is- the scenes tasks. As executive sue of Dialogue , we give just the 10 Research Ques- officer, David not only handles highlights of each report here: tions in the Tor- the finances and membership – ture Debate big jobs! – but also implements Bradley Oleson 22-23 new policies and initiatives. In Membership and Budget . Mem- Call For Proposals short, he makes SPSP run. As bership in SPSP has now broken for SPSP 2011 24 SPSP has grown, so has the work the 6000 barrier. Attendance at of the executive officer. In fact, it the convention was up by approxi- Dear Me! 26-27 will take two people to fill David’s mately 800 shoes. Over the summer, the people this Cont. on page 16 Stages Humor 15 2 GUE DIALO More Coffee and Fewer Nude Pirate Revues, Please: Notes on the Process of Site Selection for SPSP Conventions By Monica Biernat Committee members are not conven- tion center tion specialists, so they work with • Safe local environment Tara Miller Events to obtain proposals This year’s conference was a great from cities and hotels, and to develop • Sufficient public transportation (e.g., success measured against many impor- and vet contracts. Any given year, a cabs, buses, light rail) tant metrics –submissions and atten- desirable city may not proffer a rea- dance were at all-time highs and the sonable proposal—hotels may not be conference program contained a vast available for particular dates, hotel A next set of high priorities include and exciting array of research presen- locations may be undesirable or too the following: tations. As with past years, however, expensive, or sites may not be large • Warm weather location the venue chosen appealed to some enough to house our meeting. The size • Reasonable cost of airfares and members and not to others. Placement issue has been a particularly difficult good number of direct or easy- of this year’s convention at an older one of late, as SPSP convention atten- connection flights hotel at the center of Sin City’s enter- dance continues to increase each year. tainment strip was a particular concern Cities that once housed us—such as • Reasonable hotel costs and range for some members. In response, some Savannah—are now too small for our of price options (especially for in the convention committee felt it needs, as are many other options (e.g., graduate students) would be useful to explain the process Charleston, Santa Barbara). All of this • Reasonable overall convention by which conference venues are cho- means that in any given year, only 4-5 site costs (to keep registration sen and the competing concerns that reasonable “bids” come in, and of rates low) need to be balanced. those only one or two ultimately come • “Greenness” of the city, conven- close to meeting enough of our needs. Once these bids are identified, repre- tion center, and/or hotels Each year, the SPSP Convention Com- sentatives from Tara Miller Events mittee is charged with finding loca- (and often a member of the convention tions for upcoming SPSP conventions committee) visit the sites for a final Additional priorities include: and offering proposals for final con- check and walk through, at which • Good number and diversity of sideration by the Executive Commit- point a recommendation is passed on good restaurants within walking tee. This is never an easy task, as a to the Executive Committee. The con- distance viable site must meet a number of de- vention committee is currently work- • Some semblance of an East- sired criteria, be pleasing to a majority ing on a “2 years+ in advance” sched- of our constituencies AND come in at Midwest-West rotation (to balance ule – so Las Vegas was selected by the out costs for SPSP members) a reasonable price. Perhaps the most 2008 convention committee, San An- limiting criterion is the desire for tonio (the site for 2011) by the 2009 warm, sunny weather in late January/ committee, and San Diego (2012) by This myriad of criteria means that a early February. If this seems like a the 2009/2010 committee. number of cities are often out of minor concern to you, then there is a SPSP’s reach. For example, Miami good chance you live in a warm cli- and San Francisco tend to have pro- mate. Past experience exploring ven- In 2008, the Executive Committee of hibitively high expenses (both in terms ues has revealed a strong desire for SPSP charged the convention commit- of room rates and expenses for “food SPSP to provide a “winter break” to tee with developing criteria for site and beverage”—always a required part members who live in colder environ- selections. Based partly on comments of a hotel or convention center con- ments. This means that the committee following the Albuquerque meeting in tract). Airfare to Honolulu would be can only consider cities in the southern 2008, the following were set as the unaffordable for many graduate stu- half of the country. (Some think the highest priorities for convention sites, dents. Some of Atlanta’s likely hotel/ Pacific Northwest would also suffice, and were specifically considered be- convention center accommodations but that winter grayness is prohibitive ginning with the San Antonio selec- would not be near a walkable restau- to many members, and the weather tion: rant district. With each convention patterns in this part of the country are experience, more criteria are sug- hard to predict during the winter gested—recent nominees include “no • Ensuring all hotels are within months). pirates,” “no nude revues in the hotel,” walking distance of the conven- and “hotel rooms must have coffee 3 GUE DIALO makers.” Finding the ideal convention mittee is beginning its work in select- you have city suggestions or any com- site becomes more and more compli- ing a city for 2013. The goal is to head ments about convention issues, please cated each year. In addition, the re- east (at least east of Texas), and cities contact the current Convention Com- quirement to sign a contract early under consideration include New Or- mittee (Wendi Gardner, chair, Toni means that unexpected problems can leans, Nashville, Jacksonville, Or- Schmader, and Cindy Pickett), or con- creep up by the time the conference lando, Charlotte, and Miami (maybe sider writing to Dialogue . No city and takes place. In the case of Las Vegas, a we’ll get lucky on price!). The reality site will please everyone, but the con- planned $50 million renovation at the is that SPSP may reach a point at vention committee always hopes to Riviera was scuttled because economic which rotating among a select group of find locales that match the quality of recession hit the city after the confer- “known” cities will work best for the SPSP programming. ence contract was signed. organization. At this time, Tampa, With these constraints and experiences Palm Springs, Austin, and San Anto- in mind, the current convention com- nio seem like possible candidates. If Summer Institute on Social/Personality Psychology and Health By Wendy Nelson of Minnesota), Angela Bryan Angeles), Michael Robinson (North Da- (University of New Mexico), James kota State University), Traci Mann Shepperd (University of Florida), Jenni- (University of Minnesota), Rosanna In July 2009, the National Can- fer Hay (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Can- Guadagno (University of Alabama), cer Institute’s (NCI) Basic and Biobe- cer Center), and Paula Pietromonaco Michelle “Mikki” Hebl (Rice Univer- havioral Research Branch (BBRB) spon- (University of Massachusetts at Am- sity), James Larson (University of Illi- sored the Summer Institute on Social/ herst). Topics included cancer screening nois at Chicago), David Amodio (New Personality Psychology and Health , a 3- and theories of health behavior; cancer York University), Michael Stefanek day, workshop designed to introduce prevention and health promotion; chal- (American Cancer Society), and Vish promising social/personality psycholo- lenges of conducting transdisciplinary Viswanath (Harvard University).
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