APS Convention: Part Deux

(The following post is also located on the parent blog page.)

Well I ended on the midpoint of Day 2 but I have to jump back to day 1 to mention Shelley Taylor's address and discussion about her research.

As the day was wrapping up (day 1, my mistake), there was the presidential address (not the U.S.A. president, it was the APS president.) Needless to say, during that particular address I learned more about the cortisone levels in developmental psychology (also life-span psychology) than I have in a month by Shelley Taylor. I'd go into great detail about that, but I'm not really quite prepared to cite her work at the moment nor am I willing to even summarize it.

The end of day two actually there was a symposium entitled, "Psychology as a Hub Science." Truly a facinating discussion from Daniel Kahneman Princeton University, Claude Steele Stanford University, and Richard F. Thompson University of Southern California--GIANTS in the field of psychology. While sitting through the symposium a real sense of satisfaction swept through me mostly because I could understand everything those men were discussing. Moreover, if I was to sit down and discuss the issues they presented I could have meaningful interactions with them, but that never happened.

Day 3
Well this day didn't go as smooth as the other two, considering I woke up 10 minutes late and missed the 6:00 train. So I had to wait for the 7:45 train, which made me very late. But when I got there I stumbled into Dr. Verges and Dr. Duffy again during the poster sessions.

Because I keep talking about poster sessions, let me briefly explain what they are. Undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral, and professors all do research which they summarize into a poster and then present it during these sessions.

After this poster I attended some more symposiums and invited talks. I kind of embarrassed myself by sitting in on the Psi Beta workshop for teaching physiology. Mind you this particular thing was for TEACHING, not to teach... My logic was, "Hey! Psi Beta, not too many of those events going on....ever...I'll go to that!" Not even close. Oops!

Well after that I attended the invited symposium entitled, "Diverse Approaches to the Study of Religiosity," where Gary Bertson, The Ohio State University; Nick Epley, The University of Chicago; Howard C. Nusbaum, The University of Chicago; Lynda Powell, Rush University Medical Center; and Louise C. Hawkly, The University of Chicago; all spoke. Why did I list each of these people...well that's actually for me when I go back and reference this when looking at grad schools :-P.

I'm still kind of kicking myself for not attending more of these talks and symposiums, although I was just so beat from the traveling that it almost took the glisten off of the whole day. Then I had a cup of coffee! Wow oh Wow did that pump me up! Back to the poster sessions I went. Needless to say, I ended up talking with one of the fellows I met there about his research for just under an hour. We picked each others brains, and it was a wonderful thing. Shortly thereafter I attended David E. Meyers' address. Although, after his address I had to go shopping. The pants I wore that day were quite uncomfortable, so I took a jog over to Banana Republic and found THESE! (because I'm a nerd, I D/L'd the images, so Front | Back).

Ok, Lets make this the end of Part Deux