Psychology

Friday, September 4th from 12:20 pm -1:20 pm in Carnegie 110

You’re receiving this email because you’ve expressed an interest in receiving updates on our departmental brown bag meetings (“Psychological Science Brown Bags, or “PSBB”). For those of you who have never been to a meeting, this is a friendly and informal setting in which faculty and students discuss the latest research across many sub-fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. We meet a few times each semester. Each year, we also have lots of opportunities to talk about ongoing departmental and Senior project research. You do not currently have to be involved in research in order to participate – everyone is welcome!

We will open our series this year with the question “Learning How to Learn – Strategies for Long-term Retention of Material and Succeeding in College” We will meet on Friday, September 4th from 12:20 pm-1:20 pm in Carnegie 110.

If you’d like to have a look at some strategies before we meet, please have a look at the article “What Works, What Doesn’t”

Everyone is warmly invited, so spread the word and bring a friend! We look forward to seeing you there! Please bring your lunch to enjoy!

MEETING TODAY TO DISCUSS:

Brian Williams and the Malleability of Human Memory

Please join us this Friday, February 27th, for a discussion of the reliability and malleability of human memory.

We will meet on Friday from 12:20-1:20 in Carnegie 101. This week, we invite you to please bring your own lunch.

You may have been following the recent case of Brian Williams (the NBC News anchor who claimed he was in a helicopter crash in Iraq in 2003, only to be exposed a few weeks ago as having fabricated this version of events). Did he lie to make himself look better, or is it possible for him to actually “remember” his version of events? What does this line of research say about witness testimonies?

Please join us this Friday (11/7) from 12:20-1:20pm for our first student presentation session of the academic year. Maura Matvey and Becca Cohen will present their comp projects on “The Effect of Accent Prejudice on Subjective Well-Being” and “The Effects of Acute and Chronic Stress on Unethical Behavior”, respectively.

We will meet in Carnegie 101 and if you would like pizza, please RSVP by responding to ljackson2@allegheny.edu by Thursday, November 6th at 6 pm.

Come join us, support your peers, and find out more about the many different types of research being conducted in the department.

This coming Sunday (November 2), at 2 am New York time, all our servers will switch their clocks back 1 hour to get off Daylight Saving Time.

If you are in an area that follows the same rule, there is nothing you need to do. If you are in an area with different time rules, you’ll need to adjust the time on your site after that change takes place. This is done in Set Up | System Settings | Current Time and be sure to save your changes.

It’s important the system has accurate time in order to properly enforce study sign-up and cancellation deadlines.

In other news, we just published a tutorial video for researchers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec8S3xfO-a8

It covers the most popular features researchers use and is a nice complement to the participant tutorial we published a few weeks ago. A link has also been added to our support site at https://www.sona-systems.com/support so you can easily find it later.

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GATOR DAY EVENTS TODAY: Be sure to come to Carnegie Hall today for the 11:00-12:15 “Applying to Graduate School Process Panel.” Afterwards there will be REFRESHMENTS in the lobby and you can hang out with your favorite friends and faculty!

Come one, come all to the psychology picnic!

Monday, Sept. 22nd at 5:30 in Schultz East Alcove.

A great place to meet psychology faculty and students and to enjoy some free food. Sponsored generously by Allegheny’s chapter of Psi Chi.

Find out about the latest research in Psychology and Neuroscience!

Learn more about the process of conducting research, including Senior Projects in Psychology and Neuroscience!

Get involved with faculty research projects in the department!

Get feedback on your Senior Project ideas and design!

Get tips on how to prepare for an academic conference presentation!

Discuss these and many more exciting topics with fellow students and faculty in a fun, informal setting!

Where? 

Room 101, Carnegie Hall

When? 

The following Fridays from 12:20-1:20 pm

• September 12th– Why Psychology is a science
• Friday, October 3rd – Did the recent Facebook experiment violate the ethics code?
• Friday, November 7th – student presentations of Senior projects
• Friday, December 5th– student presentations of Senior projects

For questions, or to be added to the mailing list for reminders, email Prof Jackson at ljackson2@allegheny.edu

Also, like the Allegheny College Psychology Department Facebook page for up-to-date

announcements!

New Allegheny Psi Chi Board Members Elected for 2014-2015.

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President- Breana Gallagher
Vice President of Events- Erin Brockett
Vice President of Service- Alyssa Schneider
Public Relations Chair- Katie Mohan
Treasurer- Christine Wachnowsky
Secretary- Timur Dikec