Division 7 Newsletter-Summer 2009 DDDEEEVVVEEELLLOOOPPPMMMEEENNNTTTAAALLL PPPSSSYYYCCCHHHOOOLLLOOOGGGIIISSSTTT Summer 2009 Table of Contents DIVISION 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS DIVISION 7 AWARD RECIPIENTS ................................................................................................................. 1 WELCOME TO OUR NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.. ....................................................................... 2 CHECK OUT OUR WEBPAGE ....................................................................................................................... 3 UPDATE FROM DOTDEP (DIRECTORS OF TRAINING IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY)………… ................................ 3 DIALOGUE BETWEEN DIVISION 7 AND DIVISION 20 ........................................................................................... 4 FILM REVIEW: “NO DUMB QUESTIONS” ....................................................................................................... 10 NEWS FROM THE PUBLIC INTEREST GOVERNMENT RELATIONS OFFICE……. ......................................................... 12 SCIENCE POLICY AND FUNDING NEWS .......................................................................................................... 14 OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS .......................................................................................................................... 20 UPCOMING CONFERENCES .......................................................................................................................... 22 DIVISION 7 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ............................................................................................................. 24 APA 2009 DIVISION 7 PROGRAMMING ...................................................................................................... 25 DIVISION 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS APA 2009 DIVISION 7 AWARD RECIPIENTS Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE Contribution to Developmental Psychology DIVISION 7 PROGRAMMING in the Service of Science and Society LISTED AT THE END OF THE NEWSLETTER Michael Lewis, Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at the Robert Wood 1 Division 7 Newsletter-Summer 2009 Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and to developmental psychology. The award will be Dentistry of New Jersey, was awarded the Urie presented to Dr. Ghetti in recognition for her major Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to contribution to developmental science, integrating Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science behavioral and imaging approaches in studying and Society. His significant empirical and theoretical memory and metamemory in childhood. Dr. Ghetti’s contributions to understanding both normal and research program combines experimental methods, abnormal development have shaped the fields of neuroimaging technologies, and typical and atypical emotion, developmental psychopathology,e th populations to explore the development and emergence of self‐referential behavior, and self‐ awareness of remembering and the associated neural evaluative emotions. His recent work on prenatal pathways. Division 7 congratulates Dr. Ghetti and cocaine exposure, adaptation to childhood sexual looksd forwar to following her rising career. abuse, and early individual differences in stress reactivity is impacting theory, policy, and the lives of Please join us for Dr. Ghetti’s invited address at the children. 2009 APA convention in Toronto. She will be discussing her research on Saturday, August 8th at Please join us for Dr. Lewis’ invited address at the 10am in Metro Room 206A. 2009 APA convention in Toronto. He will be discussing his research on Saturday, August 8th at 12pm in Metro Room 206A. Division 7 congratulates G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Past President Laurence Steinberg for winning the Contributions to Developmental Psychology APA Award for Distinguished Research in Public Policy Nancy Eisenberg, Regents Professor at Arizona State University, was awarded the G. Stanley Hall Award Please join us for his award address for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental “Should Research on Adolescent Brain Development Psychology in recognition of her outstanding Inform Public Policy?” contributions to our understanding of emotion‐ th related regulation and relations with adjustment and Friday, August 7 at 10am, Meeting Room 706 socio‐emotional competence, as well as moral and emotional development more generally. Her pioneering work on prosocial development had a major impact in developmental psychology and dramatically broadened research on social and moral development. Her research has brought diverse WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS OF THE perspectives together to focus on development in a EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE unified way. Particularly notable is that she has made major contributions not only to empirical research but also to theory. Andrea Greenhoot, Treasurer Bonnie Klein‐Tasman, Membership Chair Please join us for Dr. Eisenberg’s invited address at Lisa Oakes, Fellows Committee the 2009 APA convention in Toronto. She will be David Uttal, Fellows Committee discussing her research on Saturday, August 8th at 11am in Metro Room 206A. Kate McLean, Early Career Representative John Hagen, Division Representative to Council Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award Dr. Simona Ghetti is the winner of the 2009 Boyd McCandless award, awarded by Division 7 in recognition of distinguished early career contributions 2 Division 7 Newsletter-Summer 2009 CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE! UPDATE FROM DOTDEP DIRECTORS OF TRAINING IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/ The Division 7 website offers a wealth of useful DOTDEP (DIRECTORS OF TRAINING IN information. In addition to general information about DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY), the major initiative the membership, you will find: of the Education and Training Committee of Division 7 of APA, held its Fifth Biennial meeting in Denver on ♦ Listing of Graduate Programs in Developmental April 2 at the Society for Research in Child Psychology Development Biennial Conference. DOTDEP maintains a helpful list of graduate training programs in developmental psychology and related Unlike previous years, this meeting was held in the disciplines (with links to each department's evening because of the new SRCD meeting schedule. WebPages). This is a great resource for prospective Turns out – this meeting conflicted with parties and graduate students or others interested in learning dinners galore! Nevertheless, about 15 members about or applying for graduate training. More than 70 attended. We had a tasty dessert reception and graduate programs are now listed on our web site at: thoughtful discussion. http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/?f=gradprograms Louis Manfra, our web master, announced that he has If you would like to have your graduate program instituted a Bulletin Board program that allows added to the listing (or would like to make changes to members to share files such a teaching resources, it), the following information from an appropriate teaching syllabi and interesting teaching representative is requested: school name; program demonstrations. There is also a blog opportunity name; department or college affiliation; web site URL where members can raise questions about to link to relevant developmental or departmental assistantship stipends and job opportunities. Good program information; and email address for an thing too, because in the panel discussion, the need appropriate contact person. Programs concerned with for communication became a clear priority graduate training in developmental psychology, whether located in a department of psychology, or a The panel discussion topic was, "Challenges for department or college of education, human Developmental Psychology Training Programs, 2009‐ development, pediatrics, or home economics, will be 2011." Panelists were Nora Newcombe, 2007 winner considered for inclusion if the above material is of the G. Stanley Hall Award, Patricia Miller, Division 7 submitted. Please send the information to: President and Chair of the Psychology Department at [email protected]. the University of Georgia, and George Hollich, 2007 ♦ Listing of online resources for developmental McCandless Young Scientist Award winner. psychology (journal homepages, other organizations, grant seeking information…) Pat Miller begane th discussion by identifying exciting ♦ On‐line mechanism to submit Division 7 Awards challenges for our field. New techniques in the Nominations ‐ Nominate your colleagues today! toolbox—fMRI imaging, genetic analyses and assays ♦ Web‐based email mechanism to send make clear the need for collaboration across questions/comments to various Division 7 disciplines. Multidisciplinary research raises committee members questions about what unique perspectives For information concerning the Division 7 webpage, developmental psychologists bring to the research please contact our webmaster, Louis Manfra, enterprise. How can our training prepare students to [email protected] face these challenges? Nora Newcombe expressed concern about whether there is an “identity crisis” in cognitive development. 3 Division 7 Newsletter-Summer 2009 With breakthroughs in cognition, what is to keep the newsletters of both divisions. Below is the third developmentalists in our Area? article in this series. Members interested in contributing a future article should contact Pat Miller, George Hollich noted that each of us [email protected],