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Volume 20, No. 2 DIALOGUE Dialogue—Fall, 2005

The Official Newsletter of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Chris Crandall & Monica Biernat, Co-Editors Psychology in Shades: SPSP’s 7th Inside the Annual Meeting in Palm Springs Current Issue: By Tim Strauman conference. The convention center is in the heart of the Village of Palm Springs, with Information is now available online regarding SPSP Conference Program 2 shopping, restaurants, and tourist attractions Preview registration, hotel reservations, and program close by. Two first-class hotels will provide schedule for the 7th Annual Meeting of the accommodations for SPSPers: the newly- 3, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, renovated Wyndham Palm Springs (attached Letters, Passings, Announcements, Awards 12, to be held in Palm Springs, California on to the Convention Center) as well as the 30, January 26-28, 2006. Point your browser to Hilton Palm Springs Resort one block away. 31 http://www.taramillerevents.com/spsp2006/ for Both hotels boast a full range of facilities, information about registration, hotel, and other including pools, golf, and tennis. The Comings and Goings 6 aspects of the meeting. Convention Center and hotels are within easy walking distance of art galleries, casinos, The perfect climate, easygoing ambiance, and nightclubs, sidewalk cafes, and all the The State of SPSP: Good 8 impressive range of leisure activities make the amenities of an international resort and Threatened fashionable desert city of Palm Springs an destination. The entire complex is only two ideal location for the upcoming meeting. The miles from Palm Springs International locals say (and the data agree) that the sun Graduate Student 11 Airport, which is served by direct flights Committee Report shines 350 days per year. Expect excellent from many national airport hubs. Be sure to weather (average daytime highs in the low 70s make your flight reservations early to get the with cool clear evenings) and come prepared most convenient direct connections! Giner-Sorolla on Academic 14 Careers in Britain to enjoy the beauty and tranquility of this In terms of quality, strength, and diversity of desert city, first famous for its healing springs, content, the 2006 program promises to be the that continues to attract young and old alike. best yet (see story on p. 2). Once again there Baumeister and Tice ask 16 The Palm Springs Convention Center, the (Continued on page 19) “Are we losing our Niche?“ “Meeting Oasis,” is the site for this year’s What Happens to SPSP 18 Reis, Jackson Elected Society Officers Posters? Changes at PSPB 20 Last spring, Society Members SPSP, a position he left after Dunning, who left the voted in elections for the 10 years in 2004. He is Member-at-Large position positions of President Elect Professor of Psychology at to become Executive Reflections on Hurricane 21, and Member at Large of the the University of Rochester. Officer of SPSP in 2004. Katrina 25 SPSP Executive Committee. Dr. Jackson will now serve The Society’s new Member- a full 3-year term as The winner of the presidential at-Large is James Jackson, Diener on Science and APA 22 Member-at Large. election was Harry Reis, who Professor of Psychology and will serve as President-Elect Director of the Institute for Congratulations to our in 2006, President in 2007, Social Research at the colleagues, and may you Lee on Michigan’s New 24 and past-President in 2008. University of Michigan. have an eventful and Graduate Program productive three years in Dr. Reis previously served as Dr. Jackson had been filling office. ■ the Executive Officer of out the term of David President’s Column 26 Page 2 DIALOGUE The 2006 SPSP Conference Program By Jeff Simpson titled “The Partner (and the Participant) strove to find a fair and effective way in Personality and Social Psychology.” to handle the dramatic rise in symposia The 2006 SPSP conference program These are only a few of the many fine submissions (83 in 2005; 107 in 2006). promises to be another exciting, and stimulating sessions that will be We addressed this issue by (a) moving interesting, and intellectually engaging held at the conference. nearly all of the workshops and special event. The 2006 Program Committee training sessions to early morning (Lisa Feldman Barrett, William Because the 2006 conference is being times (prior to the start of the regular Fleeson, Serena Chen, Chris Fraley, held at a convention center, the sessions) and (b) running 7 symposia Chris Crandall, Paula Niedenthal, Program Committee was able to per regular time slot. Second, the Lowell Gaertner, Laurie Rudman, and orchestrate seven symposia per time Committee sought to ensure that the Jeff Simpson [chair]) was impressed slot rather than five or six. As a final program reflected the diversity of by the sheer quality of the record 107 consequence, 51 of the 107 submitted theory and research that exists in symposia that were submitted this symposia (47.7%) could be accepted SPSP. Accordingly, we built “content year. The symposia that will be this year. When reading and rating the diversity” into the formal evaluation presented at the conference cover symposia, the Program Committee process. Third, the Committee wanted nearly all of the major areas in considered the collective importance, to include as many people as possible personality and social psychology, strength, novelty, content diversity, and in the official conference proceedings. many of them will highlight emerging To accomplish this, we dramatically and cutting-edge subareas of the field, increased the number of accepted and several have a strong To open the symposia in 2006 relative to prior interdisciplinary flavor. years, and we also accepted a record conference, Brenda number of poster submissions. The 2006 program also has several Major’s Presidential special sessions. To open the The Program Committee also launched conference on Thursday evening, Symposium will focus four initiatives this year. First, we Brenda Major’s Presidential extended the timeframe between the Symposium will focus on social on psychological initial call for conference submissions psychological perspectives on the “red- perspectives on the and the submission deadline by blue divide” in the United States. This approximately three weeks, giving opening session will include invited “red-blue divide” in symposium organizers more time to talks by Marilynn Brewer, John Jost, the United States. get their sessions assembled. Second, and David Myers, each of whom will we set up a permanent website so that discuss unique theoretical perspectives all future program reviewing can be toward this important and timely topic. done entirely via the internet. The interest value of each submission in Program Committee would like to On Friday morning, Dr. Major will view of the general SPSP audience. thank to Shauney Wilson in particular deliver the 2006 Presidential Address for helping us establish the new titled “How Cultural Worldviews We also received (and were able to website. Third, as mentioned above, Shape Perceptions of and Responses to accept) a record number of poster we expanded the program to seven Prejudice.” Early that afternoon, Arie submissions this year, all of which symposia per time slot. If symposium Kruglanski will deliver the 2006 were evaluated by the chair of the submission rates continue to rise, SPSP Keynote Address titled “The Program Committee and a special sub- may want to consider adding early Psychology of Terrorism: Syndrome committee consisting of 17 graduate morning symposium sessions, which Versus Tool Perspectives.” Later on students (see the SPSP website for a list could run from 8:45-10:00 am. Finally, Friday, the winner of the 2006 Block of the sub-committee members). We working with David Dunning, Tim Award (Walter Mischel) will deliver a received a total of 1197 poster Strauman, and others, we attempted to special address titled “Lives in Search submissions and were able to accept clarify the submission instructions of Personality.” 1078 (90.0%) of them. Thus, the 2006 regarding the “one speaking role per program will be the largest in the conference” rule. Future committees On Saturday afternoon, the winner of history of the SPSP conference. will need to find more efficient ways to the 2006 Campbell Award (David monitor and enforce this necessary Kenny) will deliver a special address The Program Committee addressed rule. ■ three challenges in 2006. First, we DIALOGUE Page 3

for delinquent behavior was a and especially the chapter on the Letter to combination of Newcomb’s balance “Process of Organizational Role theory that I referred to as the A-B-X Taking.” The final copy of the study model, and Sutherland’s differential was never published because the the Editors association theory. I built this model on International Association of Chiefs of a base that reached back to Durkheim, Police, constantly demanding funding

Colleagues: Cooley, Meade and other historical and for training were surprised regarding contemporary writers that were widely the outcomes on a wide range of I am responding to the President’s read in the 70s and beyond. Balance variables and terminated participation Column by Hazel Rose Markus on “A theory was used as a complement to the of the five cities that were the focus of Social Psychological Model of differential association theory and the study. Behavior,” which appeared in the explained the development of attitudes Spring 2004 issue of Dialogue, and behavior that led to delinquency. I However, I was able to obtain a Supplement No. 1. Needless to say I had two projects for the students to significant number of copies of the have fallen behind in my reading; I demonstrate how associations were Sterling publication and used the have life time memberships in the developed, and how balance theory fed publication for a course in Police Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences the process in the role development Attitudes and Behavior that I taught for and the American Society of process. My point is that social a number of years. In 1974 I joined the Criminology in addition to my psychology has the best explanation School of Public Service at Grand membership in the Society for and application to many social Valley State University and taught the Personality and Social Psychology. processes and issues if one has a good course for the first time. There was knowledge base in the areas of study some funding for police officers to My doctorate is from the University of reaching into both disciplines and take college and university course Cincinnati (1974) and I have spent drawing concepts and paradigms that work. Four officers asked for a about 40 years in higher education explained behavior. conference with me about the book; administration and criminal justice. My they had been with the Grand Rapids Master’s Degree is from the University The best study I have ever seen in an Police Department for five to ten years. of Iowa where I completed every expanded application of social The ten year veteran was the most course in criminology and a couple psychology is “Changing Role vocal as he had shared the book with courses in social psychology from Concepts in Police Officers,” by James his wife and asked her about the Manford Kuhn. I was there when he Sterling and funded by NIMH is my changes that occurred in the officers in retired and he had left a box of papers memory is correct. An abbreviated the study, and she affirmed that he had he had prepared over his career and description of the study is testing police changed and many of Sterling’s indicated they were to go to the trash officers at three points: entrance to the findings had become a part of his life bin. In addition to excellent training at police academy, graduation from the and their life together. They had fewer UC, I had ample literature on a range police academy, and 18 months on the friends over the years; most of their of historical issues in social job training. A wide range of variables friends were in law enforcement; they psychology. The program at UC was were examined; however the most were more rigid and difficult to cope excellent. Several courses were taught important for me at the time was with in many facets of their married for a full year rotating between looking at the differences between life; and, the wife was especially sociology and psychology faculty college educated officers and non- concerned about his role as father as he giving one a thorough perspective. The college educated police officers using had little flexibility in disciplining the best course was an advanced seminar the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale if my children. in social psychology taught by David memory is correct. At t1 the college Lundgren. The best class in that educated officers were significantly The issues were reasonably clear. seminar was a great debate between less dogmatic than the non-college These officers, over time, had gone me coming from the sociological officers. At t2 the difference was still through the phases of compliance, perspective and a colleague coming significant although the college conformity and internalization of the from clinical psychology. The issue educated officers had moved toward police culture from an organizational was causal factors in behavior— the non-college educated officers on perspective as outlined by Katz and personality or role. the Scale. At t3 there were no Kahn and paid less attention to the due significant differences demonstrating process model, moving toward the Over the years in teaching and the power of role over personality as crime control model. The “law and research, I found that program and that well as the interaction between role and order” themes of the 60s and 70s debate to be one of the benchmarks of personality using Katz and Kahn’s pervaded many large police my training. 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enforcement and social service are SPSP Letter to the correct in their observations. I have been to more meetings than I care to Editors, cont. count, and seldom have I seen a person Endorses of color in attendance. I prepared a (Continued from page 3) lengthy summary of the Sterling study departments and chiefs like Frank for the psychologist and we have had a Sharon Rizzo in Philadelphia and others came couple conversations. What the to the front as leaders of the crime professional county and city staff Brehm for control model. As we all know now people did not know is that the there was an awesome backfire for Memphis model for crisis intervention these chiefs and their departments. training emerged as a resolution to an APA Darrel Gates of the Los Angeles Police ugly racist atmosphere in the Department was one of the more department with a number of shootings President sophisticated crime control model of blacks that finally culminated in the chiefs and was admired in police shooting of an unarmed 16 year old as circles until the law suits began and a he was climbing a fence. I cannot recall The Executive Committee of Division few years ago, the Los Angeles Police where I read the history of racism and 8 (personality and social psychology) is Department had the highest settlement police homicide in the Memphis Police endorsing with enthusiasm the costs per officer compared to any Department, but my memory is that it candidacy of Sharon Brehm, and urges department in the United States. The was a part of a complex court decision you to vote for her on your ballot and O.J. Simpson trial is, for me, one of the that had many footnotes on the history then to be sure to send your ballot in so major symbols of the backlash as of full application of the crime control that your voice may be heard. blacks were often the object of the model. My colleagues who research crime control model as demonstrated in intensively in law enforcement advise The Committee endorses Dr. Brehm the video of the Rodney King arrest. me that many departments have not because of the unique breath and depth changed until the litigation gets too of her experience as a researcher, I live in Lee County (Fort Myers) expensive and city managers and educator, and administrator. Dr. Florida where I serve on a Council that mayors cannot cope with this budget Brehm’s expertise lies at the is working to develop Crisis line giving up funds for parks, intersection of clinical and research Intervention Teams to do a better job in recreation and education. psychology. Formally trained as a coping with the mentally ill population clinician, Dr. Brehm for decades has which is quite large because of The officers in the Grand Rapids Police made significant research contributions Florida’s horrible record in providing Department; the senior officer in the in the field of personality/social care for this group, many of which are group transferred to the EMT unit, the psychology. In addition, Dr. Brehm has homeless veterans. The decision to second officer took a management been active in writing textbooks, APA adopt the Memphis Model was made position with Steelcase, and the other service, and university administration and the consultant from the Memphis two officers moved into private (e.g., former Chancellor of Indiana Police Department and a psychologist security positions. University Bloomington, and Provost at Memphis State University came to of Ohio University). Fort Myers to present a program. When I hope this has been helpful to you. I asked about the Sterling study, he had Some of these perspectives are As such, she is uniquely positioned to never heard of it and when I outlined included in “Order Under Law,” be a knowledgeable and forceful the paradigm, the obvious question was Readings in Criminal Justice edited by steward for all three facets of APA’s raised. Do the law enforcement Ralph Weisheit and myself. mission—science, education, and administrations and their organizational practice. structures and cultures support the Respectfully, concept of crisis intervention teams Robert G. Culbertson, Ph.D. ■ The Committee urges you to take time which is based on the due process today to mark your ballot and send it model? in. The Committee also urges you to consider encouraging your colleagues The answer was that they said they to vote in this important APA election. would cooperate. The dilemma is that Fort Myers is one of the most Society for Personality and Social You can find out more about Dr. segregated cities in the state of Florida Psychology Brehm at her web page if my black colleagues in law (www.brehm4apa.com). ■ DIALOGUE Page 5

Text of SPSP Endorsement of Social Psychology Network from more than 250 faculty mentors. chology Network has given a great deal to In this electronic age, no intellectual disci- science and the public, and we strongly pline can remain an island. To prosper, to In addition, SPN allows personality and encourage our faculty and student members grow, to realize its potential, it must reach social psychology to be more global and to join and support the Network. Although out to other communities. Over the past multicultural than ever before. The Net- SPN provides many useful resources for few years, Social Psychology Network work contains profiles of psychologists individual students and scholars, perhaps (SPN) has proven to be an exceptionally from dozens of countries and includes the most valuable aspect of SPN is what it useful platform for the Society for Person- translations of select material into Span- means to the entire discipline. Through its ality and Social Psychology to connect ish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, wide reach, SPN presents a face to the out- with outside constituencies and enhance Italian, Polish, and other languages. With side world that can be seen by colleagues in and develop the field. the click of a "search" button, psycholo- other fields, political leaders, funding agen- gists from all over the world can find out cies, curious reporters, students applying to This outreach takes many forms. First, about each other's work with an ease uni- graduate school, and even next-door SPN offers an excellent means to support maginable just a decade ago. neighbors. In an increasingly wired world, and communicate with students who will a well developed global network such as become the next generation of personality Finally, beyond its value to students, SPN is of inestimable worth, and its worth and social psychologists. Students inter- teachers, and researchers, SPN has helped will only grow over time. ested in psychology can -- in one place -- educate the public about personality and browse graduate program listings, find social psychology. For example, SPN —Society for Personality and career tips, examine job opportunities, and worked with the Society for Personality Social Psychology exchange information with each other in and Social Psychology to edit, update, the SPN Student Discussion Forum. SPN and post a web brochure entitled "What is July 13, 2005 has also helped increase diversity in the a Personality/Social Psychologist?" This field, not only by making diversity-related Note: See www.socialpsychology.org/ web page conveys the excitement at the endorsements/ for all professional society resources widely available, but by estab- center of our field, and it has already lishing an extensive volunteer network in endorsements of Social Psychology Net- been visited more than 150,000 times. ■ which students from underrepresented work. groups can obtain free career assistance Since its founding in 1996, Social Psy- Page 6 DIALOGUE Comings and Goings Each fall, Dialogue features a list of names and places — who in SPSP has moved to what new job? This list is surely incomplete, but it covers all the information that was sent our way. All moves occurred this fall, unless otherwise noted. Year of Ph.D. and Ph.D. granting institution appear in parentheses.

Reginald B. Adams, Jr. (2002, Dartmouth College), from Tufts University to Pennsylvania State University.

David Amodio (2003, University of Wisconsin - Madison), from UCLA to NYU.

Jamie Barden (2005, Ohio State University), from Ohio State University to Howard University.

Jonathan Bassett (2002, Georgia State University) from Southeastern Louisiana University to Lander University.

Patrick Bennett (2005, University of Nevada, Reno), from University of Nevada, Reno to Indiana State University.

Hart Blanton (1994, Princeton), from UNC-Chapel Hill to Texas A&M.

Jeremy A. Blumenthal (2002, Harvard University; J.D. 2001, University of Pennsylvania), from Seton Hall School of Law to Syracuse University College of Law.

Helen Boucher (2005, UC Berkeley), to Bates College.

Susan Brodt (1987, Stanford University), from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business to Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Amara T. Brook (2005, University of Michigan), from University of Michigan to Santa Clara University.

Kirk Warren Brown (1998, McGill University), from University of Rochester to Virginia Commonwealth University.

Chris Buchholz (2002, Florida Atlantic University), from St. Lawrence University (Visiting Assistant Professor) to Roanoke College.

John Chambers (2005, University of Iowa), from University of Iowa to University of Florida.

Catherine Cottrell (2005, Arizona State University), to the Department of Psychology, University of Florida.

Amy Cuddy (2005, Princeton University), to Rutgers University.

Karen Douglas (2000, Australian National University), from Keele University, UK to University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Michael Dudley (2005, University of Kentucky), from University of Kentucky to Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

Elizabeth Dunn (2004, University of Virginia), from a post-doc at the University of New South Wales to the University of British Columbia.

Judy Eaton (2005, York University), from York University to Wilfrid Laurier University (Brantford).

Collette Eccleston (2005, UC Santa Barbara) from UC Santa Barbara to Syracuse University.

Nicholas Epley (2001, Cornell University), from Harvard University to the University of Chicago.

Grainne Fitzsimons (2004, New York University), from Stanford Graduate School of Business to Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo.

Josh Foster (2005, University of Georgia), to University of South Alabama.

Renae Franiuk (2002, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign) from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point to Aurora University.

Mark Frank (1989, Cornell University) from Rutgers University to University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Julie A. Garcia (2005, University of Michigan), from University of Michigan to a post-doc at Stanford University. DIALOGUE Page 7

Phillip Atiba Goff (2005, Stanford University), from Stanford University to Pennsylvania State University.

Jamie Goldenberg (1997, George Washington University) from University of California, Davis to University of South Florida.

Jonathan S. Gore (2005, Iowa State University) to Eastern Kentucky University.

Melanie C. Green (2000; Ohio State University), from University of Pennsylvania to University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Regan A. R. Gurung (1997, University of Washington), from Chair, Psychology to Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

Ian Handley (2003, Ohio University), from a post-doc at the University of Florida to Montana State University.

Jeremy D. Heider (2005, Northern Illinois University), from Northern Illinois University to Eastern Oregon University.

Kenneth C. Herbst (2002, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), from the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University to the School of Business at the College of William and Mary.

Etsuko Hoshino-Browne (2004 University of Waterloo), from the University of Waterloo to Swarthmore College.

Michael Inzlicht (2001, Brown University), from Wilfrid Laurier University to University of Toronto.

Camille Johnson (2005, Ohio State University), to a post-doc at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.

Benjamin Karney (1997, UCLA), from the University of Florida to the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA.

Todd B. Kashdan (2004, State University of New York at Buffalo), to George Mason University.

Aaron Kay (2004, Stanford University), to the University of Waterloo.

Erika Koch (2002, University of Florida), from McDaniel College to St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia.

Justin Kruger (1999, Cornell), from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to New York University Stern School of Business.

Brian Lakey (1985, Indiana University), from Wayne State University to Grand Valley State University.

Tera D. Letzring (2005, University of California, Riverside), to Idaho State University.

Andy Martens (2005, University of Arizona), to the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Debra Mashek (2002, SUNY Stony Brook), from George Mason University to Harvey Mudd College.

David Mayer (2004, University of Maryland) from a post-doc at the University of Maryland to the University of Central Florida, Management Department in the College of Business Administration.

James McNulty (2001, University of Florida) from Ohio State-Mansfield to the University of Tennessee.

Brian Meier (2005, North Dakota State University) to Gettysburg College.

Wendy Morris (2005, University of Virginia), from the University of Virginia to McDaniel College in Maryland.

Stacey L. Nairn (2004, University of Calgary) from University of Calgary to University of Prince Edward Island.

Matt Newman (2003, University of Texas), from University of Texas-Austin to Bard College.

Michael I. Norton (2002, Princeton) from post-doc at MIT's Sloan School of Management to Harvard Business School.

Laurie O’Brien (2004, University of Kansas), from a post-doc at UC-Santa Barbara to Tulane University.

Rory O'Brien McElwee (1995, Cornell University), from Philadelphia University to Rowan University.

(Continued on page 17) Page 8 DIALOGUE The State of SPSP: Good & Threatened PSPB Editors, typically at the peak of The SPSP Executive Committee met on Fortunately, a healthy number of top their careers. If the journal receives 700 Monday, August 22, at the tail end of quality manuscripts is being submitted, manuscripts in a year, and the Editor the APA Convention in Washington, the overall quality of articles accepted takes two weeks of vacation in the DC. The meeting highlighted the at PSPR remains very high, and impact year, the Editor must act on 14 comparative fortunes of the Society ratings are excellent for such a young manuscripts every week. More than (very good), and funding of research journal. Eliot Smith’s term as will end half of these are assigned to Associate for social-personality psychology in the at the end of 2005, and the new Editor, Editors, but the Editor recruits USA (under threat). Galen Bodenhausen, will begin. Associate Editors with an agreement SPSP’s Fortunes. The Society is doing Mark Landau of the University of about the approximate number of remarkably well, with 4,683 members, Arizona won the Student Publication manuscripts the AE will handle, and the largest number ever, and 635 new Award for his PSPB paper with the Editor cannot flood the AEs with members this year—a 16% increase. Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, manuscripts. The Editor must oversee Increases in membership came in Florette Cohen, Tom Pyszczynski, the editorial process for many several categories, with student Jamie Arndt, Claude Miller, Daniel manuscripts every week, in addition to memberships leading the way. The Ogilvie, and Alison Cook, “Deliver us teaching, service, and research duties at number of new students joining, and from evil: The effects of mortality work, and family and other the timing relative to SPSP Convention salience and reminders of 9/11 on responsibilities at home. It is a very deadlines, suggest that membership as support for President George W. challenging job, and it is rapidly a function of presenting at the Bush” (2004, Vol. 30, 1136-1150). The becoming impossible for a normal convention is an important factor. Society extends its congratulations. person to handle it.

Because of some special expenses this The current Editor, Judy Harackiewicz, The Society is doing and Publications Committee Chair Giff year (including the continuing expense remarkably well, with of shifting the Society offices, and the Weary, in consultation with Executive shift of PSPB from Utah to Wisconsin), 4,683 members, the Officer David Dunning proposed to a $19,000 deficit was projected in the largest number ever, and revamp the Editorship structure, year’s budget. However, there was an bringing in another layer of "Senior unexpected $20,000 profit from the 635 new members this Associate Editors" (see story on p. 20). convention, and receipts from Sage The Executive Committee approved year—a 16% increase. PSPB were higher than planned, so the this approach. In addition, will Society ended up with a surplus of just attempt to streamline the process by under $20,000. The meeting included a lengthy encouraging shorter papers, shorter discussion of what to do about what reviews, shorter decision lags, and Elections. Executive Officer David amounts to a crisis situation at PSPB. more manuscripts returned without Dunning announced the results of the As of August, PSPB was on track to review (such manuscript triage has elections, with the new President-Elect receive between 600 and 700 been encouraged by former PSPB being Harry Reis, and the new submissions for 2005. This is a sign of editors, the Publications Committee, Member-at-Large being James Jackson real interest in, and the excellent health and the Executive Committee as a (see story p. 1). of the journal. For the Editor, acting on whole). this many papers, and assigning them Publication Committee. Giff Weary to Associate Editors is an extraordinary A key concern about making major announced the happy results that Sage burden. The position of PSPB Editor is structural changes at PSPB is that it is Publications has changed the royalty a key role for the Society—she or he is difficult to know whether the increase rate that they pay the Society for the most visible public face of our in submissions is a short-term spike or science, an overseer of the most a long-term trend. If this is a temporary income from the Personality and Social tm Psychology Bulletin, from 15% to 25%. important source of income for the issue, than a Band-Aid approach PSPB is an important journal for Sage, activities of the Society, and the would be preferred. But based on the and they are clearly acting to maintain steward of the dissemination process of increased need for publication to get a it in their stable. a significant portion of the scientific desirable job or post-doc, the value of output of Society members and other publications even to get into graduate The submission rate to Personality and social-personality psychologists. The school, and the ever-increasing Social Psychology Review is slightly Society has a long history of selecting pressure of publication for tenure and down from its high of two years ago. outstanding and productive scientists as (Continued on page 9) DIALOGUE Page 9

(Continued from page 8) Convention. The next SPSP societies; President-Elect Brenda Major promotion, most expect that the torrent Convention is planned for January 26- has invited Marilynn Brewer, John Jost, of manuscripts will persist into the 28, 2006, in Palm Springs, California. and David Myers. foreseeable future. Increasing Registration is ongoing, and to receive publication pressure comes the member’s rate for registration, one At prior conventions, 40 students were concomitantly with the loss of pages at must be a member for 2006 awarded $300 Travel awards. A similar JPSP described by Baumeister and Tice (membership dues are on a calendar number will be awarded for the 2006 elsewhere in this issue (see p. 16). year basis). The conference fee meeting. structure will not change from the APA Convention Report. Jud Mills, the previous year. The Convention A 2007 meeting site and dates have APA Program Chair, reported on SPSP Committee Chair is Tim Strauman and been selected. We will be going back to program and presence at the the Program Committee Chair is Jeff our roots, the very state of our first Convention. As is typical for the APA Simpson (see related stories on pp. 1 conference, to Memphis on January 24- Convention, Society attendance was and 2). 28, 2007. not high. Still, many programs had very good attendance, and the Society Training Committee. Yuichi Shoda provided excellent content—invited The “One Speaking Role” reported that the committee is putting speakers included Gerald Clore, together a Graduate Training Director’s Wolfgang Stroebe, Lynne Cooper, Phil rule at the meeting is Network, with plans for a listserv for Shaver, Arie Kruglanski, James being vigorously graduate directors of social/personality Jackson, David Dunning, Jeff Simpson, programs. Also on the agenda for the and Ed Diener. enforced—speakers may Training Committee is a plan to not speak in two roles. develop more training for social/ Sage Publishing. The Executive personality psychologists in Committee entertained a visit from “alternative career paths,” including highly placed executives at Sage There was significant discussion about advocacy, nonprofit organizations, Publishing: Liz Haigh and Alison the future of the Convention, which is NGOs, business, government, etc. The Mudditt. Sage is strongly committed to clearly popular (and may still be committee is interested in developing a SPSP as a society and our journals rate growing in size). The “One Speaking forum where these issues can be very highly in their portfolio. Haigh Role” rule is being vigorously enforced discussed, although finding a cirtical and Mudditt made a proposal to make by the program committee—speakers mass of experienced and interested PSPB more visible, particularly with may not speak in two roles (beyond people might prove difficult. For respect to advocacy, that is, generating special invited speakers or award example, Shoda’s institution, the elite and public attention toward results addresses), and this includes being a University of Washington, sends about reported in PSPB for media and discussant (but not being a non-paper- 50% of its social psychology students government consumption. giving chair of a session). If an to Microsoft. This is an important individual is proposed for more than opportunity for social/personality Sage proposed that the Society consider research to have a substantial impact, a model in which ideas (as formulated two roles, the Program Committee may assign all sessions that person is in a yet there is some resistance to and published in PSPB, for example) considering these job placements as may suggest potential effective social low evaluative score (which effectively sinks all such proposals). training successes. But the faculty at and public policy. Since Sage sees a Washington are placing these students significant portion of its future linked This rule is in place because of the in a powerful organization where the to the future of social science funding, exploding number of program/ real-life consequences of their as a profit-making venture they are symposium submissions—there were contributions might be substantial. taking an interest in the promotion of 107 symposia proposed, 50 were social science results. This added scheduled for a 46% acceptance rate. Summer School. The Summer Institute service to the Society and the field The story is not so fractious or limited in Social Psychology (SISP) was would come at no direct monetary for posters: 1,197 posters were another success, this time hosted in expense to the Society. Newsworthy submitted, and nearly 90% were Ann Arbor by the University of articles would be identified, and Sage accepted (see p. 2). The Presidential Michigan. There was an outstanding would write up releases, with the help Symposium has been scheduled, faculty, and good organization on the of the Society and author. Sage has entitled The Great Divides. It will ground in Ann Arbor, and the students writers on staff who can write about feature several social-personality reported a large majority of good social science research in non- psychologists speaking about the nature experiences. The commitment required technical, but still accurate language. of fault lines and what divides (Continued on page 10) Page 10 DIALOGUE

submissions never reach the peer State of SPSP: Continued review stage. There is no clear indication how long this regime will last. Within the Institutes, the (Continued from page 9) and the Henry A. Murray Award went permanent staffers have been swept of faculty for participation is very to Eric Klinger. The Theoretical aside into positions where they cannot great, and the Society recognizes and Innovation Prize went to Eliot Smith advocate for social-personality thanks them for their effort. and Gun Semin. The award for Service to the Field went to Gardner Lindzey psychology. There are very few people The goal of SISP is to offer training to and Susan Fiske; the award for Service on the inside who can represent the graduate students who cannot obtain to the Society went to Harry Reis. work of social-personality psychology. this particular training in their home Staff from the APA Science Directorate institutions; in this way it is very APA Science Directorate. The will be at the SPSP meeting in Palm different from the European School, Executive Committee welcomed a visit Springs, 2006, and interested upon which SISP is partly modeled. from APA’s Science Directorate, individuals are strongly encouraged to Indeed, prior training in a course area is including the Director and SPSP talk with them and attend their an explicit exclusionary criterion, and Member Steve Breckler, along with presentation. so the teaching instructors must do is Karen Studwell and Heather Kelly. A often more basic and elementary than main focus of their presentation was the changes at NIMH, and the singling Breckler and his colleagues also some people may have anticipated. The indicated that although things look SPSP winter meeting will discuss SISP, out of social psychology as a funding non-priority. NIMH plans to focus only pretty bad at NIMH, it seems that NSF and decide on future directions and will be able to maintain a good level of implementations. at serious mental illness and direct treatment issues. How does SPSP- funding for social psychology for the foreseeable future, providing that it Diversity Committee. Tiffany Ito related research belong in the NIH/ keeps up a high level of submissions reported that the committee had NIMH portfolio? The short answer is from scientists. Amber Story will be identified twelve Diversity Award barely, if at all. To seek funding, social focusing on the Human and Social winners for the 2005 Convention, and and personality psychologists are Dynamics program, and will be a these were reported in the program. encouraged to cast their net broadly cluster coordinator of the psychology This year, the Diversity committee will across agencies—finding an agency programs. NSF has hired a new staff continue to sponsor several awards for that not only fits, but also thinks it fits person for social psychology, Kalina undergraduates in the region of the and is willing to fund your work. Craig. Scientists are encouraged to look conference to attend. The GASP (the Researchers should think broadly about to the Department of Homeland GLBT Alliance in Social and the applications of their work when Security for support. Personality Psychology) coffee hour is seeking support. also now being sponsored by the Publications Committee. There is a Diversity Committee. How does SPSP-related new PSPR contract in the offing, as the LEA contract is expiring. At the SPSP Web Site. Scott Plous, research belong in the Executive Committee the meeting, webmaster, reported about the new Sage, which pubishes PSPB, made an version of the Socialpsychology.org NIH/NIMH portfolio? The offer to publish PSPR. This offer website. The new site has many short answer is barely, if includes a notable increase in PSPB functions and features. It is a pretty at all. royalties, in addition to a very good popular site—coming in first on the list royalty offer for PSPR. The Executive for Google search on “social Committee voted in principle to accept psychology: and 2nd for a search on the Sage offer; any new monies from “psychology” (as of October 25, 2005). Also at NIMH, there are questions this contract will begin to arrive in The SPSP.org website now features an about the role of peer review in April, 2007. online dues payment option. Members supporting research. It appears that the are encouraged to use it to renew. once-close connection between peer review scores and funding decisions is Foundation of Personality and Social Psychology. SPSP has taken the Awards. Featured elsewhere in this loosening, with the potential for initiative to create an independent issue (pp. 31-32) are announcements intervention at the highest levels of the foundation called the Foundation of regarding several award winners for Institute to support policy goals other Personality and Social Psychology. this year. The Donald T. Campbell rather than strictly scientific merit. This foundation will have an Award went to David Kenny, the Jack Review-based merit is still the most Block Award went to Walter Mischel, important criterion, but it is certainly (Continued on page 11) not the only one. In addition, some DIALOGUE Page 11

State of SPSP: Continued News from the

(Continued from page 10) Council has recently come out against SPSP Graduate independent, self-sustaining board, and the use of Indian mascots, and they are will support a wide variety of in the initial stages of preparing a initiatives in social-personality motion for APA to endorse a Student psychology. The foundation will accept declaration against junk science. APA grants and donations; several people also passed a resolution against torture. Committee have already inquired about the This resolution suggests that “nothing possibility of making sizable donations. justifies torture”, and further indicates The hope is that the foundation will that no one from APA—staff or By Darin J. Challacombe become the primary place to donate to member—can be involved in it. GSC President 2005-2006 the field and support the activities of social/personality psychology. Ten divisions of APA are banding The main initiative of the Graduate together to form a group for social Student Committee is to provide gradu- justice. This group includes SPSSI ate students ample opportunities to The offer from Sage to (Divison 9), Society for the Psychology further their academic careers. With of Women (Division 35), and the this goal in mind, I am pleased to report publish PSPR and PSPB Society for the Study of Peace, what the GSC has been assembling for includes a notable Conflict, and Violence (Division 48). the upcoming SPSP convention. The The Executive Committee discussed GSC has some space on the internet. increase in PSPB the possibility of SPSP joining the The website: http://www.spsp.org/student/ royalties. group. contains updated information about what the GSC has to offer to graduate students, including information on our Historically, the Science presence in Palm Springs. Visit it to- APA Council Report. Council day! Representatives Ed Deiner and Janet Directorate and others at Swim discussed the issue of APA’s APA have been quite One of the most popular events in years bottom line. The single most important past has been the Graduate Poster source of income for APA is in the responsive to requests for Award. This award provides those stu- scientific and professional journals, but help from scientists—but dents presenting posters at the conven- the amount of time and energy spent on tion an opportunity to be critiqued and science programs may not be we need to ask more often. recognized for their contributions to commensurate with the income from academia. For each poster session, science (see article on p. 18). three awards will be given: a first place And that’s the state of the Society, and two runners-up. The first place APA is not anti-science, and it has a lot August, 2005. ■ award recipient will receive an award of very active and skilled science certificate; a $100 monetary award; people. However, scientists are not very active in generating ideas, and (Continued on page 13) often do not ask for money to spent on science related initiatives. Historically, the Science Directorate and others at APA have been quite responsive to requests for help from scientists—but we need to ask more often.

The Science Directorate is currently involved with task forces on the media, Society for Personality and Social Psychology video games, and violence/aggression, media depictions of minorities, and Visit us at www.spsp.org discrimination and anti-religion prejudice (a declaration against anti- Semitism is in preparation). The APA Page 12 DIALOGUE

field of political psychology. Sabini edited (with Maury Silver) The Individual in the Social World (1992), Abelson’s Statistics as Principled a collection of Milgram’s most creative Passings Argument (1995) is not only a cogent papers. He was the author of the well- review of how statistical analysis received textbook Social Psychology should proceed, but also is a hands-on Robert P. Abelson (Norton, 1992; 1995), and was the description of what statistical analysis July, 2005 author of Moralities of Everyday Life is, why we should do it, and how to and Emotion, Character, and Bob Abelson received a Ph.D. from differentiate good from bad statistical Responsibility (Oxford, 1998, also with Princteon in 1953, where he had arguments. Silver.) worked with Silvan Tomkins and John Tukey. From there he went to Yale, Julian Stanley August, 2005 Urie Bronfenbrenner where he stayed for the subsequent five decades of his career. Arriving during September, 2005 Julian Stanley received an Ed.D. from the Yale Communication Project, Harvard University in 1950. Trained in Abelson contributed to the foundation Urie Bronfenbrenner received a Ph.D. mathematical end experimental of attitudes studies as coauthor of in 1962 from the University of psychology, Dr. Stanley began his Attitude Organization and Change: An Michigan. Born in Russia, he professional career as a high school Analysis of Consistency Among emigrated to the USA at age 6. After math and science teacher; as an Attitude Component, (1960, with receiving his doctoral degree, Dr. academic he spent his career at Johns Rosenberg, Hovland, McGuire, & Bronfenbrenner was inducted in the Hopkins University. Dr. Stanley Brehm). Army, where served in the Air Corps, advocated accelerated education for Medical Corps, and Office of Strategic Abelson received the Distinguished gifted students, and developed Services, and later worked for the Scientific Contribution Award from nationwide talent searches for gifted Veteran’s Administration. After a brief APA, the Distinguished Scientist students using the SAT. At JHU, stint as a professor at Michigan, Award from SESP, and the Stanley administered the Center for Bronfenbrenner moved to Cornell, Distinguished Scientist Award from the Talented Youth. where he had been an undergraduate in

International Society of Political psychology and music. Psychology. The range of Abelson’s Stanley had a life long interest in the contribution is impressive—from some good design of psychological and Bronfenbrenner was one of three of the earliest computer modeling of educational research; this was psychologists (along with Mamie cognition (in 1963 and a Handbook exemplified by his publication, with Clark and Edward Zigler) on the chapter in 1968), to being a founder of Donald T. Campbell of Experimental commission that developed Head Start. the field of cognitive science. With and Quasi-experimental Designs for Bronfenbrenner’s approach to the Milton Rosenberg, he developed the Research (1963, reissued in 1974 and studying of life development focused notion of “symbolic psycho-logic," an 2005), an 84-page classic that is still on the social and ecological context of early attempt to understand a used as a textbook in research methods development, including the person, but descriptive (rather than prescriptive) classes around the world. also the environmental and social, psychological organization of attitudes context, physical space, and history. and attitude consistency, which was John Sabini key to the development of the field of His books include Two Worlds of September, 2005 social cognition. Childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R. (1972), The Ecology of Human Development : The notion that beliefs, attitudes, and John Sabini received a Ph.D. from City Experiments by Nature and Design ideology were deeply connected University of New York in 1976, where (1979) and Making Human Beings knowledge structures was contained in he worked with Stanley Milgram. He Human (2004). He received the APA Scripts, Plans, Goals, and joined the University of Pennsylvania Award for Distinguished Contributions Understanding (1977, with Roger Psychology faculty in 1976, and spent to Psychology in the Public Interest, Schank), a work that has collected his entire career there. His and the APA Award for Lifetime several thousand citations, and led to contributions included the Contribution to Developmental the first interdisciplinary graduate conceptualization of emotions, Psychology in the service of Science program in cognitive science at Yale. particularly social emotions in an and Society, which now bears his His work on voting behavior in the interactive context, especially jealousy, name. ■ 1960 and 1964 elections, and the embarrassment, shame, and envy. creation of a computer program Sabini had a long term research interest modeling ideology (the “Goldwater in sexuality and mate selection. machine”) helped define and build the DIALOGUE Page 13

Request for Volunteers to Host Summer Institute in Social Psychology (SISP) in 2007

The first SISP was held at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in July 2003; the second was held in Ann Arbor in July- August, 2005. By all accounts both were great successes. The SISP Advisory Committee now solicits expressions of interest from universities that might be able to host SISP in summer 2007. Criteria for a SISP site are:

1. A reasonably large social psychology program (at least 2-3 active faculty) to work on local arrangements and supply one or two course co-instructors. 2. A university conference division that is experienced in running conferences and can handle the details of registration, meal tickets, assigning rooms for the SISP students, etc. 3. An attractive location (in terms of natural beauty, cultural and social opportunities, etc.) where people will want to come. 4. Good availability of transportation (proximity to a major airport). 5. If possible, the availability of some financial support (or in-kind contributions) from the host university. 6. Appropriate facilities for instruction, informal meetings, participant access to e-mail, etc.

Preliminary expressions of interest are now invited from social psychology programs in the U.S. or Canada. Please send a brief statement (about 1 page) describing specifically how your proposed site meets the above requirements, as well as any additional information that you believe the committee should consider.

Include the name, email address, and phone number of a contact person. Send by email to Eliot Smith (on behalf of the SISP Steering Committee) at [email protected], by Nov. 31, 2005. The committee will review all statements received and will select one or more that appear to best meet the criteria, then will proceed to more detailed negotiations with those sites and a final decision over the next several months. ■

Graduate Student Committee Report, Continued

(Continued from page 11) provide attendees an opportunity to out with this. Information on this will free personal copies of MediaLab or further their knowledge of what career be distributed in late December. DirectRT for the remainder of their choices are available after their doctor- graduate student career plus one year ate – not just in traditional academic This year, we will be again distributing post-graduation, courtesy of Em- fields. Sessions planned for this cover information on alternative housing for pirisoft; and their choice of either a topics such as increasing marketability the Palm Springs convention. This DirectIn Millisecond Precision Key- for jobs, examples of non-academic should be coming out in the next few board or a DirectIN Precision Re- positions, and a “what’s all the fuss weeks as well. So, students, be sure to sponse Box with Custom Button Lay- about post-doc’in.” In the next few check your email! out, also courtesy of Empirisoft. First weeks, we will be officially advertising place winners will also have their this through the listservs and also on In the near future, the GSC will be poster displayed in a special area of the the GSC website. blanketing the listservs with nomina- poster room for the duration of the tion forms for next year’s committee. conference, so be sure to stop by and In an effort to assist in networking, the If you are interested or know someone view the winners’ posters! Runners-up GSC is again putting together a mentor who would make a great team member, will receive an award certificate ac- lunch with the assistance of the Train- please be sure to submit the nomina- companied with a $50 monetary ing Committee and Tara Miller. We tion forms. award. will put together topic-based tables where students will be able to meet If you are a graduate student or would As in years past, the GSC is organizing with the “who’s who” in the field. If like more information on the GSC, a pre-conference on careers. The pri- you are a PhD member, do not be sur- please feel free to visit our website or ■ mary focus of this pre-conference is to prised if you get an invitation to help email: [email protected] Page 14 DIALOGUE Academic Careers in Britain

teaching universities founded in the officials—is weighted more heavily than By Roger Giner-Sorolla 19th and 20th centuries (e.g., Kent, your brief research talk. A decision may Since 1994, undergraduate psychology Cardiff), and the prestigious older be communicated to the top candidate student numbers in the United universities (e.g., Oxford, St. within a couple of days. Candidates are Kingdom have more than doubled Andrew’s) which often have their own not “wined and dined” much in this (Higher Education Statistics Authority, way of doing things. The typical process. 2005). Moreover, British universities psychology department here is will be hiring promising researchers strongest in cognitive or neuroscience, Research. Because cognitive psychology with an eye toward the Research not clinical, creating a good climate for is strong and the RAE is important, most Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2008, a social cognition. Most departments universities in the UK are very positive government evaluation of research have one or two social/personality toward research with human participants. quality that will set institutional psychologists in a department, but The UK government has a dedicated funding for most of the next decade. some have larger concentrations. funding agency for social science This has created a favorable job market Qualitative social psychology, an research (ESRC), and social for academic psychologists with good approach that uses interpretation of psychologists with good ideas should not research achievements and promise, language instead of statistics, is also find it hard to fund a postdoc or research although many job seekers in the US found in some UK departments. So, assistant. On the down side, graduate and Canada are unaware of this. don’t be surprised if someone at the students (“postgraduates”) are harder to interview asks you to justify attract. Most programs do not have an As a US-born and trained social methodologies you take for granted. organized recruiting and distribution psychologist with British and Spanish process for the Ph. D., so getting students family roots, I have been at the depends on your initiative and contacts. University of Kent in southeast A common tactic is to approach England for the past four years. After The interview process will promising students from a Masters’ seeing Paula Niedenthal’s informative surprise those used to course. article on working in France in the last Dialogue, I thought it would be a good high-intensity interviews Teaching. I don’t like to call too much idea to give SPSP members a look at across a couple of days. attention to this in my department, but the UK job market. the average UK academic has a lighter Breaking a North teaching load than usual on the other side Getting the job. The first thing to get American taboo, you meet of the pond. 30-40 contact hours of right is the language. A “lecturer” your competitors during lecturing a year is fairly normal. A corresponds to an assistant professor, couple of cautions: academics here do “senior lecturer” to associate professor, the interview process, and more grading (“marking”), and you will and only full professors are called will be expected to treat also supervise from 4-10 undergraduates “professor.” University is never called doing the mandatory final year research “college” or “school,” and it is best to them civilly (this is easier project. This is easier if you can put them refer to “the UK” or “Britain” rather than you might think). in pairs or groups. Final year projects can than “England” until you master the be a great resource for pilot testing and politically sensitive difference. data collection.

Job advertisements for UK institutions The interview process will surprise Lifestyle and advancement. British appear year-round, not just in the fall, those used to high-intensity interviews academics are paid year-round. Starting and are seldom posted to the APS across a couple of days. Breaking a salaries may not look large compared to Monitor and APA Observer. Your best North American taboo, you meet your the cost of living, but on the whole other bet is to check the website www.jobs.ac.uk competitors during the interview social factors (such as healthcare) weigh periodically. Positions generally ask process, and will be expected to treat in favor of the UK over the US. Job only for reference contacts, not letters. them civilly (this is easier than you security is very high, as most universities might think). All job talks and do not have tenure review. Advancement British universities may be classified as interviews are held on a single day. The to higher ranks comes from a further education institutions single interview–panel-style, with (Continued on page 15) (community colleges), research and department members and university DIALOGUE Page 15

(Continued from page 14) combination of successful grants, to social problems. Other useful web links publications, and good teaching. In general, academic life is more relaxed I currently know of approximately a The UK’s main academic job site: in Britain, but without hindering those dozen North American-trained social http://www.jobs.ac.uk who wish to move faster. Travel to the and personality psychologists who have The ESRC, Britain’s social science Continent is easy and cheap, and apart found jobs at good universities in funding agency: from tourism, British social Britain. I don’t presume to speak for all their experiences, but I’ll be happy to http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ answer further questions by e-mail In general, academic life ([email protected]) if you News about UK higher education from is more relaxed in Britain, have an interview or offer on your the London Times: plate. http://www.thes.co.uk/ but without hindering British-American/American-British

those who wish to move dictionaries: Reference faster. http://www.travelfurther.net/dictionaries Higher Education Statistics Authority /index.htm (2005). Student tables. Retrieved psychologists benefit greatly from Thanks to Geoff Haddock (University of on September 14, 2005 from networking with the many strong Cardiff) and Natalie Wyer (University of http://www.hesa.ac.uk/holisdocs/pubi departments there. There is something Plymouth) for their comments. ■ nfo/stud.htm. to be said, too, about living in a country where the government is positively inclined toward science-based solutions Call for Nominations for the Henry A. Murray Award

Nominations are being sought for the Henry A. Murray Award for distinguished contributions to the study of individual lives and whole persons. The Award, established in 1978, is made annually to recognize and encourage those working in the demanding and difficult tradition pioneered by Professor Murray. The awardee receives $1,000 and is asked to present a Murray Award address at the meeting of the APA the following year.

The Murray tradition may be characterized as follows:

(a) Receptiveness to the value of bringing together a variety of disciplines, theoretical viewpoints, and research techniques.

(b) Conceptual tools that lend themselves to the integration of the tough and tender in personality research.

(c) A theoretical outlook that recognizes intrapsychic structure and the thematic unity of individual lives in the midst of phenotypic diversity.

(d) Interest in imagination and in biography, literature, and myth as psychological data.

(e) Interest in the biological, social, and cultural contexts of personality.

(f) A style of intellectual leadership that has contributed to outstanding work that exhibits several of these characteristics.

Nominating materials should be sent to James W. Anderson, Ph.D., Chair, Henry A. Murray Award Committee, 122 S. Michigan Ave., Ste. 1300, Chicago, IL 60603-6107, (312) 957-0740, e:mail: [email protected] Nominations should include 3 letters of recommendation that describe how the candidate meets the award criteria, a copy of the nominee’s CV, and no more than 5 reprints of his/her work selected for their relevance to the award criteria. Four copies of all nomination materials should be sent. Nominations are due by May 1, 2006.

Eric Klinger, the most recent Murray Award winner, will be honored at the American Psychological Association meeting in August of 2006. The previous three winners were David Winter, Carol Ryff, and Salvatore Maddi. ■ Page 16 DIALOGUE Are We Losing Our Niche? By Roy F. Baumeister & enough articles to go around even a off (so acceptance rate may remain pretty large seminar. Now the students unchanged) Dianne M. Tice have to double up. F. Everything worth knowing has Looking back, the 1990s were The numbers support that impression. already been published. something of a golden age for social- In the 1990s, the average JPSP volume personality psychology. It seemed we averaged 93.4 articles and 1241 pages. We sent this quiz to some of the editors had it all, or were getting there: respect, Since 2000, the average volume of JPSP, people whom we greatly money, fame. Our journals were full of contains 75 articles and 1138 pages. At respect and admire. We confess our fascinating new findings, our two volumes per year, there are 37 own assumption had been A, since researchers had ample grants, our fewer articles per year now. If we APA has long been viewed with society (SPSP) was getting rich, and assume that the rate of manuscript suspicion and JPSP has been much the like. But in the new century, several submission has remained the same, larger than any of its other journals, so developments have created the then your chances of getting your paper it could make the same money with less impression that the large, comfortable work and fewer printing costs. We had niche we had carved out for ourselves even heard rumors that APA was in the intellectual world may be . . . a kind of triple behind this. But the editors insisted slipping away underfoot. there is no such pressure. whammy for our Plenty has already been written about The editors also ruled out D and E. two of the main troubles. NIMH has field: Our funding, Manuscripts keep coming in, as many decided that our basic research is no as ever, and the methodological rigor longer worth funding, insofar as the our methods, and and quality seem to be as good as ever. institute isn’t really interested in mental We had tacked on option “F” as a joke, health so much as in mental illness. our journal space for logical completeness, but one editor And everywhere the IRBs grow more are all being taken said that there may have been more repressive and even anti-intellectual, than a grain of truth to it. As the editor apparently in the view that anything away, all at the explained, many submitted manuscripts that might upset anyone in the slightest seem to recycle old ideas (sometimes belongs on reality television rather than same time. under new names) or offer tiny in research labs. Many of our methods increments and refinements to existing are now off limits to many researchers. accepted at JPSP would have been knowledge. (Another editor did But less has been said about another about 25% better ten years ago as however say that there still seemed to problem, namely the dwindling space compared to today. be plenty of interesting new ideas.) in our premier journal. JPSP today In retrospect, we neglected to include publishes fewer articles, issue by issue What is happening? Try this quiz: “longer articles” as one factor to and year by year, than it did in the explain the fewer articles. From the 1990s. It’s bad enough that they make The reduced number of articles per 1990s to the 2000s, the average JPSP research hard for us by reducing our issue of JPSP is due to: article has ballooned from about 13 to funding and forbidding our methods, about 20 journal pages. This can partly but now even when we do get it done, A. Pressure from APA to cut pages explain the fewer articles, but it doesn’t our primary outlet seems inhospitable. (e.g., to save money). explain the reduction in pages. If The result is a kind of triple whammy B. New editors are much tougher. anything, the fact that our manuscripts for our field: Our funding, our are getting longer should seemingly methods, and our journal space are all C. Reviewers have suddenly become argue for more pages, not fewer. being taken away, all at the same time. grumpier and more negative. We don’t know the answer either, but The shrinkage stood out to us because D. Quality of research in the field has let’s at least consider the possibility we teach a graduate seminar that relies taken a nosedive. that these several trends are working in on assigning one issue of JPSP per week. A few years ago, each issue had E. Number of submissions has dropped (Continued on page 19) DIALOGUE Page 17

Comings and Goings, Continued

(Continued from page 7)

Shige Oishi (2000, Illinois) from University of Minnesota to University of Virginia.

Lora Park (2005, University of Michigan) to the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Keith Payne (2002, Washington University) from Ohio State University to University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Susan Persky (2004, UC-Santa Barbara), from Columbia University to National Human Genome Research Institute.

Cynthia Pickett (1999, Ohio State University) from University of Chicago to University of California, Davis.

Jasia Pietrzak (2004, Columbia University), from Columbia University to Warsaw University, Poland.

Danielle Popp (2005, University of Connecticut), from University of Connecticut to Florida Atlantic University.

Peter J. Rentfrow (2004, University of Texas at Austin), from UT-Austin to the University of Cambridge.

Paul Rose (2003, SUNY-Buffalo), from Union College to Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

Keith Rozendal (2003, UC-Santa Barbara), from KCSB-FM News and Public Affairs to California State University-Channel Islands.

Derek D. Rucker (2005, Ohio State University), to Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.

Caryl Rusbult (1978, UNC Chapel Hill) from UNC-Chapel Hill to the Free University at Amsterdam .

Brandon J. Schmeichel (2005, Florida State University), to Texas A&M University.

Simone Schnall (2001, Clark University) from the University of Virginia to the University of Plymouth, UK.

Mark D. Seery (2004, UC-Santa Barbara), from UC-Irvine to University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Jeff Sherman (1994, UC-Santa Barbara) from Northwestern University to UC-Davis.

Ilan Shrira (2005, University of Georgia) to the University of Florida.

Pamela K. Smith (2004, New York University), from University of Amsterdam to Leiden University.

Aaron Smith-McLallen (2005,University of Connecticut), to a post-doc at the Center of Excellence in Cancer Communication Research, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Weylin Sternglanz (2003, University of Virginia), from post-doc at the University of Texas-Austin to Nova Southeastern University.

Eric L. Stocks (2005, University of Kansas), to the University of Texas-Tyler.

Mirella Stroink (2005, York University), from York University to Lakehead University

Robbie Sutton (2000, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), from Keele University, UK to University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Michael J. Tagler (2003, Kansas State University), from DePauw University to Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Teceta E. R. Thomas (2003, Stanford University), from a post-doc at the City University of New York to Indiana University.

Kathleen Vohs (2000 Ph.D., Dartmouth College), from University of British Columbia to University of Minnesota.

Note: We print Comings and Goings once a year. We are always eager to be as complete as possible, so if your name or the name of a colleague belongs on this list, please let us know! We accept notices year-round, at [email protected]. ■ Page 18 DIALOGUE SPSP Conference Poster Presentations: Who, Why, and Then What? By Heather A. Haas surveyed the authors of the 266 even- authors opted out without responding numbered posters presented. (Although to the survey. Other researchers either In a recent article in Dialogue, Ed the conference program lists 269 even- did not receive our invitations to Diener (Spring 2005) reported that numbered posters, one presentation was participate or declined to do without more poster proposals were submitted listed in the program twice, and two acknowledging receipt of the invitation than could be accommodated at the authors reported that they had not by officially opting out. 2005 SPSP Conference in New attended the conference to present Our first goal was to determine who is Orleans. Of the 1,120 proposals posters, leaving a total of 266 even- likely to present posters at the SPSP submitted, 976 were accepted (87.1%). numbered posters actually presented.) conference. To that end we asked He concluded that “as the number of To prevent duplication of responses, respondents to indicate whether the submissions continues to grow, the we initially attempted to contact the research presented would be best SPSP organizers will need to confront first authors of these posters, or the categorized as social psychology the issues of how to accommodate person listed as a contact if a search of research, personality research, or ever larger numbers of good PsycINFO revealed that the research research into an issue that has posters” (p. 6). Such a decision may presented in the poster had been implications for both social and well benefit from consideration of published. We sent these authors an personality psychology. The results issues such as the demographics of the email inviting them to participate in a revealed a large difference in the group who is currently presenting, the web-based survey. Given that four proportion of personality and social rationales for doing so, and the years had elapsed since the conference, psychology work presented. Two- likelihood of subsequent publication of many authors were no longer affiliated thirds of the work was described as this research. This study attempted to with the same institutions, so we primarily social, and about 30% as begin to address these issues. searched for alternative email addresses for authors who did not respond to the having implications for both fields; Because we expected that there would initial email either by responding to the only 3.7% was described as being be a time lag between poster survey or by following the instructions primarily related to personality. This presentation and publication, we to opt out of the study. If we could not imbalance parallels the results of a focused our attention on researchers locate the first author, we attempted to 1986 survey of the SPSP membership who presented posters at the 2001 contact other listed authors. Ultimately, (Stricker, Helmreich, & Roberts, 1986) SPSP Conference, where 542 posters 136 authors completed the survey for a in which 26% of respondents reported were scheduled for presentation. We 51.1% useable response rate. Two (Continued on page 35)

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Losing Our Niche? (cont.) Psychology in (Continued from page 16) There are still plenty of problems in Shades: Palm combination to reduce journal slots. social behavior we haven’t solved. For The IRBs put some of our methods off example, Paul Rozin likes to point out Springs 2006, limits, so researchers are crowded into that USA Today, “the nation’s the fewer remaining methods and newspaper,” devotes its four sections to Continued topics. It’s easier to get approval for a politics (power), money, sports, and method you have already been using leisure, none of which gets more than a (Continued from page 1) passing mention in the index of any of than for a new one. For all we know, if was a record number of submissions, our major textbooks. cognitive researchers wanted to both for symposia and for posters. The introduce nonsense syllables today for If this diagnosis is correct (and we’re Program Committee, led by Jeff the first time, IRBs might object that Simpson, was very impressed with the some of the syllables could have not sure it is) we may need to remind ourselves of how to keep expanding quality, strength, and originality of the disturbing meanings in foreign symposia and posters that were languages, or would remind our niche. Faculty must remember to give extra encouragement to those submitted this year. Thus, the 2006 participants of the names of deceased conference promises to be another loved ones, or could trigger psychotic graduate students who are more interested in charging off into stimulating and engaging event. breaks in participants who thought the words might have secret meanings. In uncharted territories than in replicating their mentor’s work. And journal Convention activities will begin any case, a loss of methods reduces the Thursday evening with a welcome capacity for innovation and novelty. reviewers must remember to lower their standards for methodological rigor reception and Presidential Symposium when judging papers that seek to open and continue through Friday and The longer manuscripts almost Saturday. The program will consist of certainly raise the standards at the new doors. Because we do some things so well, our standards for JPSP have symposia, poster sessions, invited journal. As it gets harder to obtain an addresses, publisher exhibits, acceptance, researchers respond by gotten high, but it is appropriate to relax them for papers that bring new workshops, and special events. The packing more information into each cost of lunches is included in the manuscript. This raises the methods, new ideas, or new phenomena. conference registration fee—a competition, again to the detriment of distinctive feature of our meeting that new directions. The great flowering of social allows participants to take a leisurely look at posters while catching up with And our field’s own propensity to leap psychology in the 1980s was driven in friends. An array of independent pre- on huge bandwagons may also be part by an openness to new methods conferences will be held during the day operating. Perhaps we are and topics. Perhaps our success in some on Thursday, January 26. perseverating on topics that have fewer areas has led us to neglect others. If secrets left for us to uncover, at least need to expand our niche, we may have Please encourage your faculty and with current methods. Those of us old to push ourselves to look more broadly student colleagues to join us in Palm enough to remember when attribution again for new questions and answers. ■ Springs for what promises to be theory and cognitive dissonance another exciting and informative seemingly accounted for most of the gathering of personality and social mainstream research can perhaps psychologists. recognize the pattern. Those lines of research did not die in the sense of Our thanks to Tara Miller and her staff being discredited. Rather, the job was for their outstanding work on mostly finished, and the field moved preparations for the meeting. Don’t on to new topics. Back then, the new forget your sunscreen and we’ll see topics included social cognition, close you there! relationships, self-presentation, and so Society for Personality and Social forth. In the same way, perhaps we are Psychology 2006 Convention Committee: Tim finishing the job on some of our Visit us at www.spsp.org Strauman (Chair), Jeff Simpson current favorite topics, and the vitality (Program Committee Chair), Steve of the field may require finding new Harkins, and Julie Norem ■ questions about new issues. Page 20 DIALOGUE

author to receive such a rejection letter, but we hope that they will be received with an understanding of the conditions Changes at PSPB that warrant these changes. We hope to By Judith Harackiewicz, Kashy and Greg Maio, Senior continue to process manuscripts Associate Editors, and Carsten De quickly, and we can remain efficient if PSPB Editor, and Dreu, Andrew Elliot, Chris Fraley, Sara we concentrate our reviewing efforts on Gifford Weary, Chair of the Hodges, Shinobu Kitayama, James the papers most likely to result in Publications Committee Shah, Carolin Showers, Diederik publication. Stapel, and Steve Stroessner, Associate We are monitoring papers carefully to If impact and number of submissions to Editors. The position of Senior determine whether we will need to add PSPB can be taken as a sign of the Associate Editor is a new one, and pages to PSPB to accommodate the health of the field, then we are very these individuals will take on some of increased number of submissions. We healthy. The journal’s impact rating has the load of managing papers (assigning will do everything we can to minimize improved; recent ISI figures indicate papers to associate editors, deciding editorial decision times and publication that PSPB is now 5th out of 46 journals which papers to return without review, lags. in the Social Psychology category (was and handling manuscripts). The editor th and senior associate editors will each 8 last year), with an impact factor Finally, we would like to thank Fred handle the full range of papers received rating of 1.898. In terms of Rhodewalt and Jennifer Ghee for at PSPB. submissions, the news is both good and leaving journal operations in such good bad. PSPB has received an condition, and Carol Sansone, Jeff unprecedented number of submissions Another important change is that Executive Committee has Sherman, and Kip Williams for this year, well beyond all projections. continuing as associate editors through We are currently on course to receive recommended that we adopt policies in place at journals such as Science and 2005 and helping with the transition. as many as 660 submissions this year, The Editor would also like to thank the up from the all-time high of 545 in Psychological Science, and strive to solicit shorter reviews, write shorter SPSP Publications committee for their 2004 (which was itself an unexpected support as we work to address this increase from previous submission decision letters, and return more manuscripts without review. These unprecedented situation. We look rates that had averaged around 480 for forward to implementing the changes the previous five years). This increase changes are intended to relieve the heavy burden placed on reviewers and recommended by the Executive has been a challenge for the editorial Committee, necessitated by the team to manage, and we appreciate the the editorial team, and save time for authors of papers that stand a low increasing health and importance of our extraordinary contributions of editorial field. ■ board members and reviewers, as well chance of publication. It is hard for any as the patience of authors. The SPSP Executive Committee has CALL FOR PAPERS: 2006 APA been monitoring the situation closely, and new associate editors were added Convention in New Orleans in 2005 to help manage the load. However, it has become clear that we By Toni Schmader need a new structure to deal with this The 114th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association will take submission rate, and we need to take place in New Orleans, LA from August 10 – 13th, 2006. Division 8 is inviting steps to avoid editorial team overload. proposals for posters and symposia from faculty and graduate students for research Accordingly, at its August meeting, the in any area related to personality and social psychology. Executive Committee approved a new editorial structure and recommended You can submit your proposals via the web by midnight, December 2, 2005. All some new editorial policies. First, proposals must be submitted online at http://www.apa.org/convention06/. Questions can however, the Executive Committee be directed to Toni Schmader, the Division 8 Program Chair, at reaffirmed the importance of not [email protected]. sectioning the journal; the inclusive coverage of PSPB is an important Despite the recent tragedy in New Orleans, we hope to have a successful meeting strength to maintain. and we encourage your support and participation. Please note that APA is closely monitoring the recovery efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. If Effective January 1, 2006, the editorial plans are made to relocate the convention to another city, all members of APA will team will consist of 12 individuals: be informed as soon as information is available. ■ Judith Harackiewicz, Editor, Debby DIALOGUE Page 21

wise ordinary people label them survivors, and feel their hearts wrench. The Emotional Flood Sorrow: Worldly belongings are lost By Janet Ruscher, friends who evacuated late are stranded under water, chemicals, and human misery. Photographs, family heirlooms, Tulane University on the highways as the initial feeder bands make landfall. Dread for days Carnival masks, computers, data, home I do not really understand emotions, and weeks not hearing from colleagues. movies, architectural features of a past neither from a personal nor a Dread as the waters come. Dread as the era. All ruined. professional standpoint. At best, I have waters recede. dabbled with affect as a social scientist. Guilt: Guilt for surviving, guilt for And as an individual I typically have Horrified comprehension: Hours after focusing on mere possessions when so experienced one emotion at a time, landfall, the national media somewhat many people lost their lives and loved briefly, before returning to my general casually mentions the levee breaches ones. Guilt for having running water in a states of basic contentment, mild while glibly asserting that New Orleans hotel room when clean water along the irritation, or light anxiety. I am not, again was spared. Expatriated New Gulf Coast now is a most precious generally speaking, an emotional Orleanians immediately understand the commodity. Guilt for being able to share person. But Hurricane Katrina brought gravity of the situation, and desperately a cheeseburger with one’s cat, when forth a flood of intense emotions, at try to obtain reliable and accurate others had to leave their pets behind, are times serial and at times simultaneous. information about the impending foraging for food in a poisoned city, or Too many different emotions, too aftermath while the national news are standing where their kitchens used to intense, and in too short a period of continues to portray New Orleans as be. time. I cannot fathom the emotions of the city of forgotten cares. Why isn’t people who personally experienced anyone taking action? Don’t they Anger: Anger at politicians for inaction, both landfall and levee breaches, and I understand what is beginning to delayed action, ineffectual action. Anger would not presume to characterize that happen? at spin doctors, commentators, and trauma that they continue to endure. I insensitive clods whose assertions share my emotional experience as Simultaneous horror, helplessness, and previously would have defied the someone fortunate enough to leave grief: Victims stranded and die in the imagination of a social scientist before landfall and breach, an Superdome, near the Convention interested in language: “How can you experience that I have heard echoed in Center, on the I-10 overpass, in nursing feel sorry for people who ignored an the voices of my expatriated homes, in and a-top their houses. Ex- evacuation order?” “Racism is irrelevant colleagues, an experience of an patriots of a beloved city watch and because the New Orleans mayor is archetypal emotional flood. grieve. A nation watches and grieves. black.” “Its different for New Orleans A world watches and grieves. Why because they are used to death. Look at Anxiety: Almost tangible, even isn’t anyone taking action? Don’t they how they have parades and bands at their deafening, is the anxiety prior to understand what is beginning to funerals.” How can they speak so much landfall. Anxiety about whether to happen? and understand so little? Don’t they leave, where to go, what to take, and understand what is beginning to happen? whether the traffic contraflow plan will Disgust and contempt: The finger- Too many different emotions, too fail again. Anxiety about the storm’s pointing game develops, intense, and in too short a period of time. eventual path or strength, each counterfactuals spinning as fast of the Thankfully, the fortunate among us also potential landfall location faintly storm itself. Attention remains oddly are touched at moments by the positive hoping that the storm weakens as it diverted from the levees, which likely emotions, driftwood in the flood of approaches the coast. We have felt this would have held if not for recent negative emotions. before, but hearing anxiety resonate in funding cuts to maintenance and the voices of friends who always reinforcement programs. Amusement: The Scottish terriers of choose to ride out the storm is too another evacuee bark rhythmically as he eerie, too deafening, too impossible to Desperation: Shelters are full, hotels practices his bagpipes in a northwest ignore. are booked, gas is rationed to $10 per Louisiana parking lot. Love: For a city day. Three gallons of gas are wasted and culture that is part of our souls, a Dread: With the path and strength now hunting for another three gallons. love that we know is shared by those inevitable, phone lines, internet, and People sleeping in their cars at the Wal- who visited our beloved city. Pride: The cell towers black out. Even the Mart parking lot. Meanwhile, those left academic community rallies to support optimistic ones fear the worst. Dread behind in the city are foraging for water displaced students and scholars. that friends who ordinarily ride out the and food as the flood waters rise. The storm remain in the city, dread that insensible label them as looters. The (Continued on page 34) Page 22 DIALOGUE

about how science can be better Science and APA organized and more effective in APA, news is that we have discussed few and we need to work with him. Third, By Ed Diener issues that directly benefit scientific the science divisions should decide psychology. what concrete things they want from After serving two years on the APA, and have their representatives Council of Representatives of the What more might the science draft Council motions to this effect. American Psychological Association, divisions do to better use APA’s In the two years I have been on I have learned several things. First, considerable resources to benefit Council there have been almost no APA is a resource-laden science, especially in light of the motions, out of hundreds considered, organization. Forget the old days respect for science in the Council? I that directly benefit science. Council when APA lost its building, and the think a couple of concrete steps are motions are a major way we ask for Psychology Today fiasco put it at the possible. First, we have to make sure things from APA, and we have not brink of bankruptcy. APA now has that the APA members in the science done a good job of asking. The over 550 employees and operates in divisions always vote in the APA science divisions should be crafting the black. Furthermore, it owns two presidential election, and do not motions to present to the Council of valuable buildings in Washington, throw away their ballots. If all Representatives. Finally, we need to D.C., and has substantial stock- send people to Council who are market investments. The budget is articulate and passionate; they can almost 100 million per year. It is also make quite a difference in how APA important to know that the journals, In light of the uses its resources. including electronic journals, produce a substantial portion of the abundant resources The days are gone when scientists APA budget, and that the income of this organization, were in firm control of APA. from electronic publishing appears to However, the organization has be steeply rising. we might ask what tremendous resources, much of which come from the science activities In light of the abundant resources of is being done for involved in publishing (authoring, this organization, we might ask what editing, and reviewing), and it is is being done for science—especially science—especially possible that significant money and because the journal operations because the journal personnel will be used for the benefit produce such a large proportion of of science if we play our cards right. I APA’s income. In the Council operations produce have been surprised at the degree of meetings this question is raised by pro-science sentiment among Council representatives from the science such a large members, including practitioners. We divisions of APA. One gets the clear proportion of APA’s need to harness this sentiment message from these representatives through political action so that a that there is concern over the income. significant amount of APA’s question of how important science is resources are used to help scientific to APA. My impression is that the psychology. ■ Council members as a whole are very sympathetic to science, and support scientists in APA vote there will be a it. At the same time, there are many science person as president of APA in different constituencies in APA, and most years. This is especially they are each working hard for their important because most of the other own interests. During the two years I members of the Board of Directors of have been on Council, lots of our APA are likely to be practitioners, discussions have focused on issues given that they are elected by the related to social justice, diversity, Council (where science divisions are Society for Personality and Social Psychology and clinical practice. The good news now in a minority). is that when scientific evidence is Visit us at www.spsp.org Second, we need to support Steve presented on these issues, there is a Breckler, APA’s head of the Science very favorable response. The bad Directorate. Steve has lots of ideas DIALOGUE Page 23

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Michigan Creates New “Interdisciplinary” Area: Personality and Social Contexts By Fiona Lee as well as broader social contexts Core Research Themes (including gender, family, schools, “Are you a division 8, division 9, or neighborhoods, social class, Personality and Social Contexts is an division 14?” workplaces, organizations, interdisciplinary area in the sense that “Where did you send your paper— communities, political structures, the research questions and section 1, section 2, or section 3?” religion, ethnicity, culture, and history). methodologies do not necessarily fit nicely into a single APA division. Five Evolution of a New Area These are common questions we broad themes characterize the research encounter and we all understand what in the new area: these questions refer to—membership “This was a bottom-up process that Identity in specific APA divisions, or sections emerged from the faculty in our (the balance of internally within the Journal of Personality and Personality and Organizational areas,” experienced and socially reflected Social Psychology. Yet, not all of us said Richard Gonzalez, the chair of the selves): For example, Robert Sellers’ can easily categorize ourselves into Psychology Department at Michigan. research centers around a conceptual one of these subareas. Psychologists “Faculty in both of these areas framework for understanding African who are interested in individual recognized that their research had Americans’ racial identity, and how differences often look at how these evolved. For instance, much of the this relates to psychological differences “play out” in the context of research conducted by the Personality functioning. Margaret Shih’s work real-world problems, situations, and faculty not only focused on personality focuses on how multiple social social structures. Psychologists characteristics, but also on how identities (such as being female and examining intergroup behaviors often individual differences are expressed being Asian) contribute to resilience look at the cognitive mechanisms within the context of relationships, among individuals facing potentially underlying such behaviors. And, as neighborhoods, workplaces, and negative social stereotypes.

Howard Friedman argued in the last cultures. Along the same vein, the Motivation issue of Dialogue, experimental social Organizational faculty had taken a (forces that energize, direct, psychologists need to consider broad view of organizations, beyond and select behavior): For example, implications of their findings in field industrial/business settings, to include Oliver Schultheiss studies the settings such as schools, business, or many different types of collectives such psychobiological causes, correlates and communities. Indeed, Judson Mills as social identities (like gender and consequences of implicit motives. argued in the same issue against ethnicity), communities, and culture. Elizabeth Cole researches personality regarding research about persons and There are so many synergies in the factors that motivate participation in research about environment as separate research between the two groups that it social change movements. Power fields with little relationship between surprises me we haven’t done this (processes by which one person one another. The reality is, to better sooner.” affects the behavior and emotions of conceptualize social behavior, others): For example, Fiona Lee personality and social psychology must While drawing primarily from the examines how being powerful or transcend the traditional boundaries faculty of the Personality and powerless affects individuals’ that divide these research domains. Organizational areas, the new perceptions of themselves and of Personality and Social Contexts area others. David Winter studies how In Fall of 2005, the Department of also includes faculty with backgrounds power motivation is related to power Psychology at the University of in social psychology, community behavior in everyday life, political Michigan created a new area, psychology, clinical psychology, and behavior, war and peace, and history.

Personality and Social Contexts, that developmental psychology. The core Oppression acknowledges this reality. This new faculty of the new area include: Phillip (negative psychological area focuses on the interplay of Akutsu, Elizabeth Cole, Lilia Cortina, effects of hierarchical social structures): individual differences and social Lorraine Gutiérrez, Fiona Lee, For example, Lilia Cortina’s research contexts. Faculty research in this new Ramaswami Mahalingam, Oliver centers on the oppression of area examines how individual Schultheiss, Robert Sellers, Margaret individuals in the social context of differences are channeled and Shih, Abigail Stewart, and David work, focusing in particular on sexual constrained by the immediate situation Winter. harassment and workplace incivility. (Continued on page 36) DIALOGUE Page 25

Social Psychology, Social Class, and Hurricane Katrina

By Laurie T. O'Brien, victims and support for government Understanding social class is Tulane University policies to rebuild the Gulf Coast. especially important to social psychologists who study stigma. How much of people’s reactions to African Americans, Latino Hurricane Katrina has made it Katrina is shaped by classism and how Americans, and Native Americans are painfully obvious that in America, much is shaped by racism? While underrepresented at colleges and social class matters. The brunt of social psychology has made universities, and as a result, ethnic Hurricane Katrina’s wrath was borne considerable progress in understanding minority undergraduates may be by the poor of the Gulf Coast. Middle racism, there has been much less unrepresentative of their ethnic group and upper classes had the means to progress in understanding classism, or as a whole. When I was a post-doc at leave the city, they were more likely to the intersection between classism and UC-Santa Barbara, I studied have places to go, less likely to have racism. It’s good to have social psychological well-being among their homes flooded, and more likely to psychologists such as Jean Claude Latino college students. This research have insurance to cover their losses. Croizet and Heather Bullock studying showed that system-justifying beliefs Wealth—and its access to resources— social class, but more work is needed in (e.g., belief in a just world) predicted played a role in who lived and who this area. A PsycInfo search of the lower levels of well-being among died. Journal of Personality and Social highly identified Latino college Psychology, Personality and Social Social class is also likely to have a students. In contrast, these beliefs Psychology Bulletin, the Journal of profound impact on psychological were positively related to well-being Experimental Social Psychology, the adjustment to the devastations wrought among Latino college students who British Journal of Social Psychology, by Katrina. Wealth is correlated with were not identified with their ethnic and the European Journal of Social geographic mobility; middle and upper group. Psychology revealed that, from 1985 to class evacuees are more likely to have 2005, only 17 articles have been While working on this research, I friends and family in far flung parts of published that list “social class” or would frequently catch the bus home the United States largely unaffected by “socioeconomic status” as a key from campus late in the evening. The Katrina (see Argyle, 1994). Middle and concept (out of 8,420 articles). people riding the bus with me were upper class evacuees are more likely to primarily poor, working class Latinos have support networks that remain The lack of attention to social class who spoke Spanish as their first largely intact. Poor and working class contributes to social psychology’s language. I was constantly struck by evacuees, in contrast, are more likely generalizability problem. Most social the obvious differences between the to have friends and family psychologists rely primarily on college bus-riding Latinos and the students concentrated in nearby areas equally students as research participants, this is who were study participants. devastated by Katrina. Their social a sample biased in favor students from Differences in clothes, hair cuts, networks are more likely to be wealthier backgrounds; this enrollment language skill and usage, and manner disrupted, and they may be less able to gap is especially large at more were apparent and large. Social draw on resources from friends and prestigious universities where much of scientists may categorize all of these families who are also burdened. the social psychological research is people “Latino”—but they are not a conducted (Bowen, Kurzweil, & Tobin, The impact of class on social support homogenous group. Would my fellow 2005). How can we know if the and social networks is just one bus riders be more or less likely to psychological phenomena being example of how social class has the identify with their ethnic group, or for studied are entirely class-bound? Quite potential to impact psychological that matter, would they even consider a lot of recent research on prejudice has adjustment among Katrina evacuees. themselves in the same ethnic group focused on normative pressures to Moreover, the impact of social class on as my study participants? Would appear unprejudiced, and how this psychological reactions to Katrina system justifying beliefs ever be desire to be unprejudiced can affect extends beyond evacuees. Social class psychologically beneficial for the interracial behavior. Are the research is a determinant of political attitudes, laboring class Latinos? conclusions equally adequate for a and it can impact reactions to hurricane college campus and a construction site? (Continued on page 34) Page 26 DIALOGUE

PRESIDENT'S COLUMN We’re Taking on More and More Responsibility For Our Own Field: Join Us By Margaret Clark financial assets. Even more important, I theoretical pieces, had evolved (under think, was the growth in the numbers of pressure from the publisher) into a people moving beyond the earliest series of thematic volumes, which, our Something very impressive is stages of their careers and being willing publisher noted, could be more easily happening among social and to take on positions of service to the sold. We didn’t need that. There were personality psychologists. We are field. lots of thematic edited books coming taking on responsibility for our own out. We still needed a specifically field at a rapidly accelerating rate. social/personality oriented outlet for theoretical and review pieces. With our In the not so distant past (or perhaps it new financial assets, we could do just seems that way to me), the service Something very something. We could drop the book we supplied to one another was series, and take the financial risk of mediated largely by other groups. We impressive is starting a new journal to fulfill the role edited journals (that groups larger than happening among originally intended for the series. ourselves had initiated and owned.). (Delightfully, the risk paid off. There We served on grant panels (that were a social and was no downside.) We needed an part of the federal government). We executive officer to handle our put together programs for conventions personality growing responsibilities. We found run by APA or APS. We served on two marvelous ones. (Thanks, Harry APA and APS committees. Over the psychologists. We Reis, for years of amazing service and course of many years, we initiated just support of the society. Welcome David a couple of services for ourselves. The are taking on Dunning. You’ve answered our first major service provided by social responsibility for question of whether we could ever psychologists to social psychologists replace Harry in the affirmative.) Our occurred before I entered the field. It our own field at a graduate students had to get to was running the Society of conferences. We started travel awards. Experimental Social Psychologists’ rapidly accelerating We wanted and needed to support annual meeting and giving out two diversity in our field. We started awards, a dissertation award and a rate. diversity awards. We noted that distinguished scientist award. It was an choosing winners of our few existing important service but one confined to a As a group (with some people playing awards was getting tougher and few days in October. The second major key roles—see our list of service award tougher for there were more people service was implemented just as I winners on pp. 31-32) early members doing great individual pieces of work entered the field. It was the founding of the precursor of our society formed and more people accumulating entire and running of PSPB. (We typed our and incorporated the Society for lifetimes of great work. Moreover, own articles, which were then copied Personality and Social Psychology. We there were some types achievements just as we submitted them and put expanded our executive committee. that were doing unrecognized. We together as a journal!) The character of our executive instituted some new awards. Our committee meetings changed. We editors were working incredibly hard We still do work mediated through moved from focusing just on filling a other organizations. SESP continues to and were unpaid or underpaid. We small number of positions (e.g. increased their stipends. (Yet, we still meet, and PSPB (which has evolved president, secretary-treasurer, APA into a major journal) continues to be need to appreciate their efforts for they council representatives) and on do more work than those stipends published, but now we’re much more collecting the dues, to regularly asking active in deciding for ourselves what justify.) We’ve joined the Federation ourselves, what does our field need? of Behavioral, Psychological, and sorts of services we need and in What else can we do for our field? providing those services. The founding Cognitive Sciences to make sure our own science is well represented in of PSPB and its growth was key to We noted that our book series, initially this. The journal provided us with lobbying efforts as well as to support started as a new outlet for review and (Continued on page 28) DIALOGUE Page 27

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PRESIDENT'S COLUMN We’re Taking More Responsibility, Continued

(Continued from page 26) and is doing, I’ve used the pronoun winners.) scientists in related fields. We backed “we,” Who, exactly is included in that some of our members’ own, “we?” It’s easy to answer that question Importantly, the “we” is not at all an independent, efforts in running a web retrospectively. Look at our list of exclusive we. SPSP exists to serve the site and in starting and running a service to the society award winners: field. Please join in! If you are willing summer school for graduate students. Jim Blascovich, Marilynn Brewer, to help out in any way, let us know. (Two of those summer schools Marty Chemers, Todd Heatherton, Contact David Dunning our current sessions providing our graduate Chuck Huff, Bibb Latané, Scott Plous, executive officer (at Cornell students with extra training in areas and Harry Reis. Their efforts have been University), me (at Yale University), important to our field that are not complemented by our service to the our incoming president, Brenda Major especially well represented at their field winners who have been: Steve (at the University of California, Santa own school have already taken place.) Breckler, Nancy Cantor, Robert Croyle, Barbara) or our past executive officer We have continued publishing our and current president-elect, Harry Reis newsletter, Dialogue. (at the University of Rochester). We’ll Other exciting things steer you the right way. New faces and Perhaps most strikingly, we needed a views and, especially, willingness to conference which all people interested are happening in our work are always needed. Ideas for new in social and personality psychology initiatives can always be added to our could attend—graduate students, field, independently of meeting agendas. Let the editors of our young faculty members and older SPSP. There will be a journals, PSPB and PSPR, know if you faculty members active in teaching but are willing to serve as a reviewer. not research as well as those active in new private foundation Don’t be shy. (They will welcome that research careers. It was financially with a goal to support information and you will hear from risky to commit to that first convention them.) Have an idea for an article that but we did it—some of us with more social and personality ought to be in Dialogue? Contact Chris fear than others. It has been Crandall or Monica Biernat at the tremendously successful. psychology. It’s University of Kansas. As a special independent of SPSP plea, if you are one of the more senior And what’s next? We’re retaining all members of our society and you are the services we’re already supporting but its overall goal of approached about an editorial position and we’re looking into new ones. For supporting our field is for one of our journals, please accept. instance, right now we’re looking in to Our journals are very successful. public relations efforts. the same. Submission rates up. This is terrific, but there is work to be done. Serving Meanwhile, other exciting things are as an editor or as an associate editor is happening in our field, independently Susan Fiske, Molly Oliveri, and Fred one of the most important things you of SPSP. There will be a new private Rhodewalt. What have these people can do to support our field. foundation with a goal to support done? Lots. Too much to list here but social and personality psychology. It’s just ask any executive committee Finally, whereas the new foundation is independent of SPSP but its overall member. We will tell you. Moreover, not an SPSP entity, like us, its purpose goal of supporting our field is the there are many, many others who have is to support social and personality same. Moreover, the Society of chaired and served on our convention, psychology. There will be a variety of Experimental Social Psychologists publication, award, and training ways to support that foundation. Do (SESP) independently of SPSP is committees, edited our journals, edited just that. seeking and implementing ways to and written for Dialogue, lobbied for us support our field. Each group is aware in Washington, and represented us at As our field grows, it is important that of the other’s efforts and there is a APA, APS and elsewhere. I thought the “we” who are committed to wonderful spontaneous effort to about listing them but I was sure I’d supporting it grows and changes in ■ provide complementary services. leave someone out. (Instead, I set my composition. Do join in. list aside to hand to our committees In talking about what SPSP has done who will pick our future service award DIALOGUE Page 29

SPSP Endorses Social Psychology Network, Calls on Members to Join

Over the summer SPSP joined sev- fate of other NSF-funded web sites from people in over 100 countries -- eral other professional societies in that died when the time came to a total of more than 63 million page endorsing Social Psychology Net- become self-sustaining." views since SPN was first created - work (SPN), an Internet gateway - and its interactive directory con- that includes SPSP.org. The Net- So far the early results are encour- tains profiles of more than 1,100 work, long supported by the Na- aging. SPN has received hundreds psychology professionals. SPN and tional Science Foundation, is facing of membership contributions, and in its partner sites also rank highly in budget cuts that threaten its contin- addition to SPSP, the following so- Google search results, including ued availability. cieties have asked their members the top result worldwide for to consider joining or contributing: searches of "social psychology," To help cover its annual operating the Society of Experimental Social "personality psychology," "cultural expenses, SPN recently became a Psychology (SESP), the Society for psychology," "experiment," and nonprofit membership organization the Psychological Study of Social "prejudice," and the second highest able to accept tax-deductible contri- Issues (SPSSI), the European As- result for searches of "psychology" butions. The yearly cost of SPN sociation of Experimental Social and "social." membership is $20 for regular Psychology (EAESP), the Asian members and $10 for student Association of Social Psychology In August of this year SPN re- members, with gift memberships (AASP), the Society of Australasian leased several new features that also available. For payment options Social Psychologists (SASP), the had been under development, in- that include a secure credit card Canadian Psychological Associa- cluding an advanced search engine form and a traditional mail-in mem- tion Social and Personality Section with more than 11,000 annotated bership form, readers are directed (CPA-SPS), and the British Psycho- resources, a searchable news ar- to this page: logical Society Social Psychology chive of "Psychology Headlines Section (BPS-SPS). from Around the World," and a free http://www.socialpsychology.org/ "job alert" subscription service. Us- support.htm Several professional societies and ers can also now search SPN's institutional sponsors have also archive directly from their own web "I hope that colleagues who have contributed funds directly, including site by downloading a free "SPN used SPN and expressed apprecia- SPSP, SESP, SPSSI, EAESP, the Search Box" and placing it on their tion over the years will consider National Science Foundation, the home page, web syllabus, Psi Chi joining as a tangible show of sup- David and Carol Myers Foundation, page, or department site (see port," said Scott Plous, SPN Web- and McGraw-Hill Higher Education. http://www.socialpsychology.org/ master. "The membership process addsearch.htm for details). takes only 5 minutes or so, and "These contributions are an excel- 100% of the money goes toward lent investment in the future of our "I'm deeply grateful for the support running the Network. I don't receive field," notes SPSP Executive Officer SPSP has shown for the Network," a penny, and none of the payments David Dunning. "The sheer magni- said Plous, "and I warmly invite go toward overhead or administra- tude of the Network, and the SPSP members to share any sug- tive costs." amount it's used each day, point to gestions they have for further de- the value of SPN, but what's most velopment or improvement of the Plous compared the Network to exciting are the developments that Network. Even though SPN will be communal resources such as pub- a global network will permit in the celebrating its 10th anniversary in lic radio and television programs future. No other area of scientific February -- a dinosaur by web that depend on users for support. psychology has an international standards -- it's still very much a "Our community knows about the infrastructure like this." work in progress." ■ danger of diffused responsibility," he added, "so I'm hoping that this All told, the Network receives more knowledge will help us avoid the than 80,000 page views per day Page 30 DIALOGUE

groundbreaking insights. In The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, leading Announcements contributors discuss the foundations of the field as well as recent discoveries currently News Items involved in emotion, this integrative shaping this burgeoning area of psychology. volume brings together leading The Federation for Behavioral, psychologists, neuroscientists, and Foundations of evolutionary psychology,

Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, and philosophers. Carefully organized, tightly Survival, Mating, Parenting and kinship, its educational arm, the Foundation for the edited chapters address such compelling Group living, Interfaces with traditional Advancement of Behavioral and Brain questions as how bodily responses disciplines of evolutionary psychology, and Sciences work for psychological science, contribute to conscious experience, whether interfaces across disciplines. educating the general public and policy "unconscious emotion" exists, how affect is makers about the nature and value of the transmitted from one person to another, and Jefferson Singer (2005). Personality and psychological sciences. They are charitable how emotional responses are produced in Psychotherapy: Treating the Whole organizations, and can receive donations the brain. Bringing a new level of Person. Guilford Press. (http://www.fabbs.org/donate.html). Both coherence to lines of inquiry that often organizations have a program for remain disparate, the book identifies key, publishers; Sage Publications, SPSP’s cross-cutting ideas and themes and sets This volume illustrates how one can use publisher has donated $5000. forth a cogent agenda for future research. Dan McAdams's 3 level framework of personality research to inform and enrich

In October, Monica Lewinsky began psychotherapy. It demonstrates how one Bertram F. Malle and Sara D. Hodges graduate school in social psychology at the can assess personality through traits, (Editors) (2005). Other Minds: How London School of Economics. Ms. characteristic adaptations (e.g., strivings Humans Bridge the Divide between Self Lewinsky, now 32, is seeking a master’s and defenses), and narrative measures, and and Others. Guilford Press. degree. how this multidimensional assessment can translate into an integrative understanding One of the great challenges of social of clients in therapy. The book offers a 3- New Books cognitive science is to understand how we level assessment of a laboratory participant can enter, or "read," the minds of others-- and then illustrates the use of these same David M. Buss (2005). The Murderer Next that is, infer complex mental states such as assessment techniques in an actual clinical Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill. beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions. case study. This book can serve as a Penguin Press. This book brings together leading scholars textbook in a personality seminar for A leader in the innovative field of from psychology, neuroscience, and advanced undergraduates or graduate evolutionary psychology, Buss conducted philosophy to present cutting-edge theories students. It is also well-suited for training an unprecedented set of studies and empirical findings on this essential clinical psychology graduate students about investigating the underlying motives and topic. Written in an engaging, accessible the importance of contemporary personality circumstances of murders, from the bizarre style, the volume examines the cognitive science for their work as psychotherapists. outlier cases of serial killers to those of the processes underlying mindreading; how If you would like further information, go to: friendly next-door neighbor who one day interpersonal understanding and empathy http://www.guilford.com/pr/singer2.htm kills his wife. Featuring gripping develop across the lifespan; connections to storytelling about specific murder cases- language, communication, and including a never used FBI file of more relationships; and what happens when than 400,000 murders and a highly detailed mindreading fails, in both normal and Correction study of 400 murders conducted by Buss in clinical populations. collaboration with a forensic psychiatrist, The Spring 2005 issue of Dialogue included and a pioneering investigation of homicidal Table of contents, Publisher's site with a list of top publishers in Social-Personality fantasies in which Buss found that 91 sample chapter: Psychology Journals, 1994-2004, (pp. 18- percent of men and 84 percent of women http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~bfmalle/OthMinds. 19). At least one name that should have have had at least one such vivid fantasy-The htm been on the list of top publishers in the Murderer Next Door will be necessary Journal of Personality and Social reading for those who have been fascinated David M. Buss (Editor) (2005). The Psychology was mistakenly omitted: Eddie by books on profiling, lovers of true crime Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Harmon-Jones published 11 articles in and murder mysteries, as well as readers Wiley. JPSP during the 1994-2004 time period, intrigued by the inner workings of the and should have appeared on the list. The human mind. Editors regret the error. The foundations of practice and the most ■ recent discoveries in the intriguing new Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paula M. field of evolutionary psychology. Why is Niedenthal, Piotr Winkielman (Editors) the mind designed the way it is? How does (2005). Emotion and Consciousness, input from the environment interact with Guilford Press. Send announcements to the the mind to produce behavior? By taking

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discipline is also evident in a life's work of remarkable service. Lindzey served Society Awards, 2005 as director and president of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral one of the world's most productive and Sciences in the crucial years from 1975 David Kenny highly cited social and personality psy- to 1989. He also served on seemingly Donald T. Campbell Award chologists. Finally, as one of Don countless national committees and Campbell’s last students, Dave Kenny’s boards, ably representing our field, in SPSP is pleased to announce David award seems particularly fitting. The such pivotal institutions as the National Kenny as the winner of the Society’s 2005 Donald T. Campbell Award Com- Academy of Sciences, the American Donald T. Campbell Award. Dr. Kenny mittee included Nalini Ambady (chair), Academy of Arts and Sciences, the was selected because of the substantial Rich Petty, and Mark Snyder. Social Science Research Council, the impact that his work has had on both Russell Sage and MacArthur Founda- social and personality psychology, in- Gardner Lindzey tions, Presidential Science Committees, cluding personal relationships, person the American Philosophical Society, Award for Distinguished Service perception and personality judgments. NSF, NIH, and APA. Gardner Lindzey His many theoretical, methodological, on Behalf of Social-Personality was there for decades, beginning at the and empirical contributions have had a Psychology time when our field was new and strug- broad and lasting impact on social psy- gling, and in need of champions. It is no chology, personality psychology, and SPSP is delighted to present Gardner exaggeration to say that his service beyond. Lindzey with its Award for Distin- made possible the infrastructure upon guished Service on Behalf of Social- which our discipline is built, and from Kenny's work is characterized by both Personality Psychology, in recognition which we all, as well as our successors, depth and breadth of thought. He has of his lifetime of remarkable contribu- benefit. the rare gift of being able to intertwine tions to the field. Gardner Lindzey was a consummate administrator, a dedi- and integrate theory and methodology, Susan T. Fiske with the theoretical work refining and cated writer and editor of textbooks and simultaneously advancing the method- handbooks integrating grand swaths of Award for Distinguished Service ology and vice-versa. His recent work our field, a champion of the culture of on Behalf of Social-Personality on the PERSON model contains a wide- service, and an energetic scholar whose Psychology ranging meta-theoretical framework for work nurtured the development of social the study of interpersonal interactions and personality psychology. SPSP is pleased to present Susan Tufts and judgments. His landmark article on Fiske with its Award for Distinguished the difference between mediation and Lindzey is best known for editing the Service on Behalf of Social-Personality moderation is one of the most widely Handbook of Social Psychology, the Psychology, in recognition of a lifetime cited social psychology articles in the singular document providing a compre- of significant service and professional filed and beyond. He has also written hensive and instructive chronicle of the contributions to the field. Susan Fiske several books on methodology and sta- achievements of personality and social has exemplified the idea that social tistical analysis. His innovative thinking psychology. He sole-edited the first psychology has important contributions has changed the research landscape in edition (1954) and continued as co- to make to the important issues of the the areas of personal relationships and editor in the three editions that followed, day. She has served as a skilled cham- person perception because he has pro- including the current edition. He also pion for personality and social psychol- vided both the theoretical framework as co-wrote Theories of Personality with ogy, chairing or serving on innumerable well the methodological and statistical Calvin Hall, beginning in 1957, which boards, work groups, and committees tools needed to analyze data that were was for decades the cardinal volume in crucial to the vitality of the discipline. not available before. Thus, his work has the field. Lindzey took part in crafting All the while, she has remained an ener- provided a new structure and identity several other highly influential projects, getic researcher, scholar, and teacher for the fields of personal relationships such as the Allport, Vernon, and whose empirical and theoretical state- and personality judgments. Because of Lindzey Study of Values; a key 1961 ments continue to guide the thinking of his contributions, we can now ask and textbook on projective methods; and the field. answer questions that we lacked the some of the earliest and prescient books tools to address previously. And, be- reviewing theory and data on behavior Although Susan Fiske's groundbreaking cause of his contributions, we now have genetics. Through these and other vol- research on stereotypes and discrimina- more sophisticated methods of evaluat- umes and papers, Lindzey made a broad tion is familiar to all in the field, SPSP ing the impact of social interventions and indelible mark on the shape of so- recognizes her in this award for her and programs than we had before. With cial-personality psychology. exemplary and selfless role in maintain- ing a vigorous infrastructure for the such an exceptional record of accom- Gardner Lindzey's commitment to our plishments, it is easy to see why he is (Continued on page 32) Page 32 DIALOGUE

and findings to better the human condi- today in the study of interpersonal rela- Society Awards, tion. Her able service in pivotal national tionships, whose pioneering research positions bolster and enhance the health has importantly shaped the agenda for Cont. and reach of personality and social psy- work in this area, he has also served as chology. The debt of the field to her for the president of the International Soci- (Continued from page 31) all these efforts, and accomplishments, ety for the Study of Personal Relation- discipline. Susan Fiske played a major is deep and incalculable. ships. role in demonstrating to the world that social psychology has important in- Even today, Reis continues his service sights to provide about significant so- Harry Reis to the Society as its incoming President- cial issues, stepping outside of the aca- Award for Distinguished Service Elect. It can be safely said that the demic arena to represent psychological to the Society for Personality and scope of service and intellectual excite- research in the challenging atmosphere ment the Society provides its members of the courtroom, providing central and Social Psychology and the discipline reaches far broader crucial testimony in cases involving SPSP is gratified to present Harry Reis because, in no small part, to Reis’s gender discrimination and sexual har- with its Award for Distinguished Ser- dedication, ingenuity, resourcefulness, assment. Susan has also represented vice on to the Society for Personality and intelligence. Organizations survive social-personality psychology on many and Social Psychology, in recognition of with proper stewardship. Organizations important committees at the National his wide-ranging, innumerable, and es- thrive when they can count on the work Institute of Health and the American sential contributions to the health and of many dedicated individuals as well Psychological Association. Continuing vibrancy of the organization. as a steward with vision and ability. her advocacy efforts, today she plays a During Reis’s involvement, SPSP has crucial role on the executive board of profited from these characteristics in the Federation of Behavioral, Psycho- Reis served more than ably as the Ex- abundance. The value of his contribu- logical, and Cognitive Sciences in ecutive Officer of the Society for eleven tions to the Society are broad, exten- Washington, DC, as well as the Work- years, during which the Society experi- sive, and crucial. ing Group on Basic Behavioral and enced unprecedented growth and expan- sion. During his tenure, the membership Social Sciences, convened by the Na- tional Institutes of Health. Susan has of the Society doubled, the journal Per- Eliot Smith & Gun Semin also served as president of both the sonality and Social Psychology Review Society of Personality and Social Psy- was established, the Society’s annual Theoretical Innovation Prize chology and the American Psychologi- convention was launched, and a biennial cal Society, and twice on the executive summer school for graduate students The Theoretical Innovation Prize Com- committee of the Society of Experimen- was begun. It is only stating the obvious mittee is pleased to announce that the tal Social Psychology. to remark that the Society at the end of 2005 TIP recipients are Eliot Smith and Reis’s tenure is a far different one from Gun Semin, for their paper, Socially the one he encountered at the begin- situated cognition: Cognition in its so- Fiske also serves the field intellectually ning—in terms of its self-confidence, cial context, in M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Ad- in her work to summarize the most ex- the enthusiasm evident among its mem- vances in Experimental Social Psychol- citing findings of the field in scholarly bers, and the reach of its service. ogy , 2004, (vol. 36; pp. 53-117) . and comprehensive texts. Her text with Shelley Taylor on Social Cognition has The committee also cites, as honorable Reis’s many contributions to the disci- been the central introduction of many mention, Sally Dickerson and Margaret pline extend far beyond the Society. He current psychologists to the field. With Kemeny, for their paper, Acute stress- has served with skill on grant review Gardner Lindzey and Daniel Gilbert, ors and cortisol responses: A theoretical panels at both the National Science her work on the 1998 edition of the integration and synthesis of laboratory Foundation and the National Institutes Handbook of Social Psychology dis- research, which appeared in Psycho- tilled the crucial wisdom that the field of Health. He has championed psycho- logical science on influential commit- logical Bulletin (vol. 130, pp. 355-391) has generated over the past few dec- in 2004. ades, as well as demonstrated the tees such as the Board of Scientific Af- fairs at the American Psychological breadth of its importance and applica- Committee members were Margaret Jour- tion. Currently, she serves as an editor Association. As past editor of the Clark, Jennifer Crocker (chair), Barbara nal of Personality and Social Psychol- for Annual Reviews of Psychology, ex- Fredrickson, John Levine, and Timothy ogy Current tending the breadth of her stewardship. , and now as the editor of Wilson. The award is graciously funded Directions in Psychological Science , from contributions from SPSP member Susan Fiske demonstrates that social Reis has taken the lead to guide and Mark Schaller. ■ psychologists take seriously the impor- showcase the best work being done in tance of disseminating our perspective our field. One of the leading scholars DIALOGUE Page 33

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Emotional Social Class and Katrina, Cont. Flood, Continued (Continued from page 25) sufficiently more weight to Ignoring social class can also create publications conducted with hard-to- experimental confounds. Some reach populations than publications (Continued from page 21) research on race (including my own) conducted with easy to reach Relief: All department faculty are uses "stereotypically Black" names to populations. Social psychologists with accounted for; colleagues and students operationalize race. What researchers tenure, then, are in the best position to register daily on the survivor database. typically refer to as Black names (e.g., conduct research with poor and Jamal and Tyrone) may be working class participants. By the time Joy. Tenderness, Loyalty, and Hope all stereotypically poor Black names people reach tenure, however, they remain for many expatriates, and like (consider names of famous, upwardly already have a research program in the many negative emotions, these mobile African Americans such as place, active research questions they positive emotions are shared by our Colin Powell or Bill Cosby). If these are trying to answer, and entrenched friends on higher ground. But one names are associated with poor Blacks, research paradigms and methodologies emotional experience may be unique to researchers who use these names as an in place. At this point, including poor the most fortunate of survivors and operationalization of ethnicity are and working class participants would expatriates. I do not have a word for it: confounding race and class. This is require overcoming the force of inertia. The quiet realization that one has potentially problematic because received care and concern simply research suggests that working class Although there are difficulties to be because another human being knew Blacks are primarily categorized on the surmounted, I urge social that care and concern were needed basis of their race whereas middle class psychologists to consider both immediately, noncontingently, and in a Blacks are more likely to be studying social class as a phenomenon tangible fashion. An emotion prompted categorized on the basis of their social and including participants from poor by unprecedented altruism and class (Weeks & Lupfer, 2004). and working class backgrounds in their unwaveringly swift support from existing research programs. The events friends, mere acquaintances, and Why don’t more social psychologists surrounding Hurricane Katrina serve as virtual strangers who opened their study social class? Although the a reminder of the importance of social homes to our families and pets, reasons for not studying attitudes class in America. As I sit here typing identified resources for our displaced toward social class are unclear, reasons this article, I am led to reflect on how students and colleagues, brought us for not including poor and working my status as an assistant professor cherished Carnival throws and copies class participants in research are enabled my own safe evacuation from of destroyed photographs, telephoned probably largely practical issues—these New Orleans as Katrina approached. or e-mailed to offer emotional support participants are not readily available on from across decades and miles. college campuses. While the tenure system has many merits, one of the References An emotional experience created by a unfortunate consequences of the tenure system is that it leads young community constructing an ark around Argyle, M. (1994). The psychology of social researchers to focus on conducting its desperate members at the height of class. London: Routledge. the emotional flood. Gratitude cannot research that is quick and easy to do. even begin to describe the emotion Conducting research with poor and Bowen, W.G., Kurzweil, M.A., & Tobin, born of these random acts of kindness, working class participants is likely to E.M. (2005). Equity and Excellence in offers, condolences, and support. At require greater time expenditure than American Higher Education. the risk of touching religious research with middle class participants. Charlottesville, VA: University of metaphor—something that I perhaps (In my own experience, however, Virginia Press. understand less than emotion--the only finding a significant number of very concept that comes close is the low social class participants requires Weeks, M & Lupfer, M.B. (2004). experience of grace. Without the not much more than taking Complicating race: The relationship emotion of grace, many of us might questionnaires to urban public spaces, between prejudice, race, and social have drowned in the emotional flood where willing participation is not class categorizations. Personality and of horror, terror, anger, guilt, and grief. difficult to acquire). When counting up Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 972-984. You have given us this grace. It will publications at tenure time, few ■ not be forgotten. ■ universities are likely to give DIALOGUE Page 35

SPSP Conference Posters, Cont. about people who join the Society only to present a poster, and the high (Continued from page 18) published after multiple rejections, growth of student attendees relative to that they identified somewhat or much 43.1% were accepted by the first the rate of growth among faculty more strongly with personality journal to which they were submitted, attendees (Dialogue, “News from the psychology and 58% reported that they and another 43.1% after only one Executive Committee,” Spring 2005). identified somewhat or much more rejection. Most of the authors (69.6%) If the opportunity to present posters is strongly with social psychology, who had not yet published their to be used as a means of recruiting although in the case of poster research reported that they had not tried members, this is a desirable state of presentations at the 2001 conference, to publish, although the majority still affairs, especially given the reported there appears to have been an even intended to publish the work “good rate of continuing greater imbalance. eventually. memberships” (“News from the We also asked researchers to indicate Although these results are informative, Executive Committee,” 2005, p. 2). whether their research could best be it is important to note that several If, on the other hand, the goal is to described as a faculty member’s sources of systematic error are promoting continuing memberships, research, a graduate student’s research, possible. First, it was more difficult to priority for presentation space could be or an undergraduate project. More than find and contact some presenters (e.g., given to long-term members of SPSP, half of the projects were conducted undergraduate students and people who all else (e.g., quality of the poster primarily by graduate students, 34.6% work outside the United States) than proposal) being equal. Similarly, by faculty members, and 5.1% by others; as a result these groups may although the smaller proportion of undergraduate students. The second have been underrepresented in the personality psychologists in the goal of the research was to determine sample. Second, it is possible that the Society virtually ensures that a smaller motivations for presenting posters at relative proportion of graduate students proportion of presented posters will be the conference. The two most popular and faculty members was different at relevant to this group, our finding that reasons for presenting were vita this early (“2nd Annual”) meeting than only about one-third of the presented enhancement and soliciting feedback is true today. This possibility is posters were regarded by their authors before attempting to publish. supported by a recent report stating that as being relevant to personality “virtually all of the major growth of the psychologists gives reason for pause. Finally, we were also interested in conference is in students” (“News from determining the frequency with which the Executive Committee,” 2005, p. 2). Although symposia and other presented research was published, Third, because the survey asked people conference activities no doubt provide making it accessible to a wider to report whether or not their research plenty of ‘draw’ for psychologists who audience. Although six respondents did had been published, it seems possible are primarily interested in personality not indicate whether or not they had that people who had published their phenomena, it would be unfortunate if published the presented research, 51 research were more likely to respond these psychologists looked at the provided publication citations, than those who had not. As a result, our poster offerings and decided that the suggesting that about 37.5% of the conclusions must be regarded with conference did not provide them with presented projects had been published some caution. sufficient opportunity to interact with or were in press at the time of the other psychologists who share their survey (which occurred just over four That said, although the space available interests, and instead began to take years after the conference); the median for poster presentations has clearly their conference attendance elsewhere. and modal year of publication was increased in recent years (from 542 A survey of faculty and post-Ph.D. 2003. The 51 publications appeared in posters presented in 2001 to 976 members of SPSP may help clarify the 26 journals and a book chapter. The presented in 2005), there is still clearly reasons why some members do not most frequent publication outlets were competition for available space. Such regularly attend these conferences. the Journal of Experimental Social poster presentation opportunities Psychology and the Personality and appear to be a particular draw for Reference Social Psychology Bulletin (each with graduate students and to those looking 6 articles), the Journal of Personality at poster presentation as a resume- Stricker, L. J., Helmreich, R. L., & and Social Psychology (5 articles), building opportunity. The competition Roberts, D. C. (1986). A survey of Psychological Science (4 articles), and for presentation space may well call for the Society for Personality and the Journal of Personality, the Journal reflection on acceptance policies, as Social Psychology. Personality and of Research in Personality, and Social Diener has suggested. The executive Social Psychology Bulletin, 12, 131-144. Cognition (each with 3 articles). committee has already apparently ■ Although several of the articles were discussed some concerns, for example, PageVolume 36 20, No. 2 DIALOGUE Dialogue—Fall, 2005

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