SEPA Newsletter Southeastern Psychological Association July 2001 Included in This Issue: SEPA 2001 Revisited Renowned Psychologist Bandura Wows at the 2001 Psi Chi Talk ........2 SEPA 2001: A Success in Atlanta ..........................................................2 SEPA 2002: Orlando Bound! ASun, Surf, and Psychology@ SEPA Returns to Orlando for 2002.........................................................3 UCF Welcomes SEPA to Orlando in 2002! ............................................4 The SEPA History Project.......................................................................4 Organization Highlights A New Day for CEPO .............................................................................5 SEPA=s Past President Note ...................................................................5 Association of Heads of Psychology Departments Update.....................6 And the Winner is... Graduate Student Research Awards ........................................................6 Outstanding Professional Presentation Awards ......................................7 Hear Ye, Hear Ye: SEPA Announcements 1st Georgia Undergraduate Research in Psychology Conference............7 CEPO Graduate Student Network ...........................................................7 SEPA Seeks New Administrative Officer...............................................8 Officer Information................................................................................. 9 Clicking Your Way Through APA .......................................................10 Notice: Have You Moved? ....................................................................11 SEPA Web Site Update .........................................................................11 Newsletter Contact Information ............................................................11 Renowned Psychologist Bandura Wows -1- at the 2001 Psi Chi Talk! Alvin Wang The guest speaker for the Psi Chi/SEPA Invited Address was Professor Albert Bandura (Stanford University) who discussed "Self-Enablement Through Perceived Efficacy." More than 500 people attended Professor Bandura=s presentation and by many accounts, his presentation was the highlight of the SEPA convention. After the presentation, Professor Bandura joined us at Psi Chi=s hospitality suite where he chatted with students and signed autographs for three hours. SEPA 2001: A Success in Atlanta Maria Lavooy For its first convention of the 21st century, SEPA returned to Atlanta in 2001 with a AReunited@ theme. Once again, SEPA met with great success! A number of honored psychologists delivered dynamic and interesting talks, including Albert Bandura, guest speaker for the Psi Chi/SEPA Invited Address, George Albee, who delivered the Rosecrans Invited Address, and Virginia Andreoli Mathie, the G. Stanley Hall lecturer. Over 1600 authors, in diverse program areas, shared their research and thoughts through presentation of an eclectic assortment of posters, papers and symposia. In addition, there were numerous special topics awards, keynote speakers, and organizational/interest group presentations to keep attendees challenged throughout the day. As always, SEPA provided ample opportunity for reuniting with colleagues, making new acquaintances, and establishing contacts with some of the best in psychology that the southeast has to offer. Thanks to all who, with great effort, ensure the success of SEPA, year after year. The tireless efforts of the executive committee and the hard work of college administrators, faculty and students, both undergraduate and graduate, guarantee the continued development of psychology in all areas. We look forward to seeing you in Orlando in 2002. -2- SEPA RETURNS TO ORLANDO FOR 2002 Dick Tucker, Program Chair For the first time since 1986, SEPA returns to in Aclinical geropsychology,@ both in Orlando, Florida for its annual meeting, March 21-24, his role as President, Section II, 2002. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Orlando Division 12, Clinical Geropsychology, resort hotel, near the Disney World area. With and as an internationally renowned Florida having the highest concentration of older researcher on caregiver issues. adults in the United States (nearly 50% more than the national average), and given the increased importance ► Wendy Rogers, School of Psychology, of aging issues in our society, the theme for this Georgia Tech, will present an invited year’s meeting is ASEPA Comes of Age: Psychology lecture on Human Factors and Aging, and the Aging Revolution@ (with special with an emphasis on her innovative acknowledgment to APA for the subtitle based on research with the latest AComputer their recently published book). House@ technology. This is the first time that there has been a specific ► An Invited Lecture will be delivered emphasis on aging issues for the annual meeting, by Susan Krause Whitbourne, although program submissions, as in the past, may Professor of Psychology, University of cover any area. This year, the invited speakers will Massachusetts. Dr. Whitbourne is a all be nationally renowned Ageropsychologists@ master teacher in the psychology of specializing in the application of their psychology aging, and in addition to her sub-discipline to many different issues in aging. We distinguished record of research, has are fortunate that much of the nationally recognized recently authored or co-authored research on the psychology of aging is taking place several major texts on aging. within the SEPA region, and we look forward to drawing from that rich pool of talent, as well as other In addition to these invited addresses, there will be national speakers. the annual Psi Chi/SEPA invited address. This year=s speaker will be Florence Denmark, a past- ► The Siegel/Wallston Invited Lecture president of APA and Professor Emeritus at Pace will be delivered by Harvey Sterns, University, who is currently researching women=s Professor of Psychology, and Director, issues in aging. More details on other events being Institute on Lifespan Development, planned to utilize the unique attractions in the University of Akron. Dr. Sterns Orlando area will be forthcoming in the ACall for directs the only Ph.D. program in the Papers@ to be mailed out at the end of August. U.S. in Aindustrial gerontology,@ the application of principles of industrial and organizational psychology to such issues as older workers and older We look forward to your 2002 consumers. program submission! ►The Rosecrans Invited Lecturer will be William Haley, Chair, Department of Gerontology, University of South Florida. Dr. Haley will address issues -3- UCF Welcomes SEPA to James L. Pate Orlando in 2002! The SEPA History Project, under the direction of James Jack McGuire L. Pate, has several major components. The first component, and in many ways the most important, is the collection of On behalf of the Department of Psychology at the archival materials. The archival collection includes official University of Central Florida, home of SEPA President elect, documents or publications about the association, and many Dick Tucker, and the entire Orlando-Central Florida items that may be relevant to the activities of the association Community, I would like to extend a warm welcome to those or to its history. who plan to attend SEPA 2002 in Orlando, Florida. The SEPA History Project includes an annual symposium The area where the convention will be held provides easy on the history of psychology departments in the southeast. In access to the Orlando International Airport, downtown most years, histories of a department that grants the doctoral Orlando, theme parks such as the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, degree, a department at a liberal arts college, a department at MGM Studios, Islands of Adventure, Universal, and Sea an historically Black college or university, and the current World, and the world famous beaches at Cocoa Beach and SEPA president's department are included in the symposium. Daytona. If you are interested in participating in this symposium or you simply want to write a history of your department, Everyone is aware that Central Florida is the tourism contact me and I will provide additional information. capital of the world but you may not be aware that Orlando was recently ranked 10th among the top 50 largest A second symposium is organized for the presentation of metropolitan areas in the countryYnot only on the basis of its papers about the history of psychological research in the well known tourism, but also because of its growing and southeast. In the past, this symposium has included the diverse high technology industries. history of clinical psychology, and social psychology, psychometrics, verbal learning and memory, and non-human I remember with great pleasure my first SEPA, in the language. Although the emphasis is on activities in the spring of 1973, when I presented a symposium on southeast, information from other regions of the country or confidentiality in psychotherapy. After joining the faculty at world may be included in the papers. UCF in the fall of 1972, I have missed SEPA only once since that initial meeting. A third symposium was added to the SEPA History Project for the 2001 meeting. In 1992, Dr. Harold Moon The University of Central Florida, located about fifteen began a symposium series on eminent southeastern women miles east of downtown Orlando (also with campuses at psychologists, and Dr. Jane Ellis assumed responsibility for Cocoa and Daytona Beach), has been a strong supporter and organizing the symposium