A Publication of the Society A LOOK AHE A D TO THE APA CONVENTION IN 2009-TORONTO for General Psychology Division One ivision 1 of the American D Psychological Association A P A Convention Preview APA Convention 2009 Preview ..........................1 Convention Chair for Division One Wedding: Peripatetic Psychologist Wade Pickeren, Ph.D. .........................10 Ryerson University Anastasi Award and Biography It has been my pleasure to serve as the .........................13 Division One Program Chair for the 2009 APA Convention. The Division has a long history of Burnham: Freud’s Visit excellence in its program and I trust that this year ........................15 will continue that tradition. I directed my efforts to try and ensure that it was truly a general program, with appeal across much of the psychological spectrum. The A Word from D1 President programming, as is usual for the Division, is mostly invited speakers and symposia. .......................18 However, we do have several sessions that were submitted, as well as a poster session with many graduate student posters. Pratkanis: Lucifer Effect Don Dewsbury, our Division President, will give his Presidential address, Book Review I Trends in Academic Psychology: Homogeneity and Heterogeneity. Sunil Bhatia ........................22 of Connecticut College will address one of the key topics of our time with his talk, Rethinking Identity in a Post-American World: Globalization and the Rise of the Webster: Lucifer Effect Other. Tony Marsella, University of Hawaii, will bring his many years of experience Book Review II working around the world to another set of global issues in his talk, Global Poverty, Human Rights, and Psychology: Challenges, Opportunities, Responsibilities. ........................29 Immigration is also one of the hot topics of the decade and the Division One Graduate Student Corner symposium on immigration was organized by two noted Toronto immigration researchers, Michaela Hynie and Yvonne Bohr, both of York University. Entitled, ........................33 Coping Strategies for Recent Migrants---Cultural, Social, and Personal Strengths, What They’re Reading symposiasts will address how recent immigrants use cultural resources to navigate the challenges of acculturation in new settings. Medical anthropologist, Laura ........................35 Simich, and Nursing professor, Nazilla Khanlou, join Hynie and Bohr on the session. Plous: Action Teaching This year is the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and sesquicentennial Origin of Species ........................37 of the publication of . Gordon Burghardt, University of Tennessee, is one of the world’s leading comparative psychologists and he addresses issues 2009 Convention Preview in the Darwinian tradition in his invited session, Darwin, Snakes, and Religion: ...........................41 Ancient Emotions, Current Needs, and the Sacred Updated. Douglas Creelman, University of Toronto, is one of the pioneers of (signal) detection theory, which has Strickland: APA Council Report found many uses over the last half-century. He will talk about detection theory and ........................42 its applications in his, Signal Detection Theory: A History. Joan Chrisler, Connecticut Volume 44, No. 1 - Spring 2009 The General Psychologist Page 1 Division 1 Preview... College, was a long-time editor of the noted journal, Sex Roles. She has published some of the leading scientific Witnessing History: work on menstruation and will talk about recent findings in Sistahs of Color Tell Their Stories her talk, Attitudes Toward Menstruation and Menopause Can Impact Women’s Well-Being. Harold Dent, one of the nation’s experts on psychometric theory and application, will provide a historical perspective on the uses and misuses of psychometrics in the noted legal case of Larry P. v Riles, State of California, in his invited talk, Fulfilling Promises?: Larry P. v Riles and the Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi). Mike Connor, one of the nation’s leading clinicians in working with Black families and Black Fathers, will talk about the insights gained from his 40 years of experience Christine Iijima Hall in his invited address, Black Fathers: A Retrospective Look at 40 Years of Research, Teaching, and Practice. Diane J. Willis, Ph.D., Christine Hall leads what promises to be one of the Divisional highlights when she chairs an All-Star cast in the University of Oklahoma symposium, Witnessing History---Sistahs of Color Tell Their Pamela T. Reid, Ph.D., Stories. Symposiasts include, Pamela Reid, President of St. Joseph College St. Joseph College, Gwen Keita, APA Executive Director of Gwendolyn P. Keita, Ph.D., Public Interest, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Past-President of APA Division 42, and Diane Willis, Past-President of American American Psychological Association Association of Orthopsychiatry. Lillian Comas-Diaz, Ph.D., Well-known historian of psychology, Andrew Transcultural Mental Health Institute Winston, will present work from his ongoing project on Christine Iijima Hall, Ph.D., Jews in American society and psychology in his invited Maricopa Community College District talk, Dangerously Clever: The study of “Jewish attributes” in historical context. Patricia Greenfield, UCLA, has spent a long career studying children’s cognitive development itnessing History: Sistahs of Color Tell Their across cultures. She will talk about her work in her talk, Stories. What a great title and a great Linking Social Change and Developmental Change: Shifting Wsymposium. Division One has invited five female psychologists of color tell their personal and professional Pathways of Human Development. stories. These well-known and respected women are: Diane J. Willis, faculty emeritus from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center; Pamela T. Reid, President of St. Joseph College; Gwendolyn P. Keita, Executive Director for Public Interest of the American Psychological EACH DIVISION 1 PRESENTER was Association; Lillian Comas-Diaz, private practitioner/ SOLICITED TO PROVIDE A WRITE-UP OF president of the Transcultural Mental Health Institute; THEIR PRESENtatiON. WHat FOLLOWS and Christine Iijima Hall, administrator with the Maricopa ARE SPEARKERS’ SUBMISSIONS IN THEIR Community College District. OWN WORDS. These women represent a span of almost 45 years in the field of psychology. Think about it, 45 years ago, the civil rights movement was a major force, miscegnation (interracial marriages) was illegal, affirmative action laws had just been instituted, and Brown vs the Board of education was only Volume 44, No. 1 - Spring 2009 The General Psychologist Page 2 Division 1 Preview... 10 years old and numerous teaching institutions had not and rise in popularity of standardized intelligence tests, desegregated. But around the corner were the ethnic and violations of the fundamental principles of science, women’s rights movements. What was life like for these objectivity and fairness, have been ignored to advance the professional women? test industry and professional practice. What were their experiences in college and graduate Rejection by APA of efforts by a small group of its Black school? Why did they choose psychology especially during members seeking relief from the negative impact of bias a time when much of the discipline was seen as part of tests on the education of Black school age children and the problem rather than the solution? In what ways has on the employment of Black adults triggered the formation psychology changed or remained the same? of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi). The founding of other ethnic group oriented psychological On a personal and professional level, these sistahs will organizations quickly followed, i.e., AAPA, NLPA, and SIP. look back on their experiences and their life decisions. What they did right? What would they do differently? What advice Black psychologists’ commitment to improve the quality do they have for the next generation? What predictions of life in the Black community is reflected in the efforts of do they have for the future of psychology, the U.S. and the the Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists (BAABP). world? It will undoubtedly be an exciting and revealing These efforts could serve as models for the greater symposium where the audience can join in the discussion professional psychological community to respond to the and ask questions about “what was life REALLY like?” call by the current APA leadership to increase psychology’s contribution to society. Fulfilling Promises? One of the most profound efforts of BAABP to serve the Larry P. v. Riles and the Bay Area needs of the Black community was to consult with attorneys in the first successful legal challenge of bias in IQ tests in ABPsi special education placement of Black students in California public schools, the Larry P. v. Riles case. The author documents this case and cites the federal court’s ruling which the APA, public schools across the nation, and many professional practitioners have virtually ignored. Legal challenges, federal legislation requiring non- discriminatory testing, national reports emphasizing the discriminatory impact of standardized tests on minorities, and a long standing test reform movement have met with mountains of resistance reflecting collaboration between APA and the multi-billion dollar test industry. Harold E. Dent, Ph.D. Psychological & Human Resources Consulting In concert with the appeal by APA’s leadership, Dr. Hampden, VA Dent proposes specific recommendations