The 2021 Call for Symposia opens on March 17. Psychonomic Society Members, Fellows, and Emeritus Members are invited to submit a symposium proposal for the 62nd Annual Meeting.

A symposium proposal should highlight new and emerging ideas that are likely to have broad influence in shaping future research, including ideas from related disciplines. The deadline for symposium proposals is April 25. Stay tuned for more details.

The 2021 Call for Paper & Poster Abstracts will be open from April 5 - June 1. All 2021 Members, Fellows, Emeritus Fellows, Emeritus Members, and Graduate Student Members may submit one abstract for the Annual Meeting (graduate student member abstracts must be sponsored). Fellows and Emeritus Fellows may also sponsor up to two abstracts submitted by a Graduate Student Member or a non-member.

Member status of the submitter determines the priority for the abstract, so graduate students should not list themselves as the submitter for a Fellow, Emeritus Fellow, Member, or Emeritus Member abstract. Your 2021 dues must be paid by June 1 for your abstract to be given the priority associated with your member status. If you still need to pay your 2021 member dues, sign in to the PS website and click on "Invoices." To become a member, click here.

The Psychonomic Society's Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award annually recognizes up to two deserving candidates who have demonstrated significant contributions to the field of cognitive psychology, been in the field for 10+ years, and modeled sustained leadership and service to the discipline. Recipients will be formally recognized at the 2021 Annual Meeting and will be presented with an award and a $1,000 USD cash prize. The nomination deadline is March 31. Learn more and submit a nomination.

The Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award is given for exceptional contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career. Recipients will be formally recognized at the 2021 Annual Meeting and will be presented with an award and a $2,500 USD cash prize. During years when the Annual Meeting is held in-person, recipients' airfare to the meeting is also covered. The nomination deadline is March 31. Learn more and submit a nomination.

The Psychonomic Society Early Career Award is given annually to up to four young scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific psychology early in their careers. Recipients will be formally recognized at the 2021 Annual Meeting and will be presented with an award and a $2,500 USD cash prize. During years when the Annual Meeting is held in-person, recipients' airfare to the meeting is also covered. The nomination deadline is March 31. Learn more and submit a nomination.

The Psychonomic Society is committed to scientific merit, which entails the inclusion of scientists regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability status, country of origin, geographic location, and disciplinary expertise. Please critically examine your deliberations to eliminate biases that detract from our commitment to merit.

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CR:PI) is an Open Access journal that publishes new empirical and theoretical work covering all areas of cognition, with a special emphasis on use-inspired basic research: fundamental and theoretically relevant research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems. The role of the Editor is to select Associate Editors and an Editorial Board, handle manuscripts, assign manuscripts to Associate Editors, and interface with editorial staff and the Psychonomic Society Governing Board.

Nominations for the next Editor-in-Chief of CR:PI are now being accepted and will be considered until April 1, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. Read more and submit a nomination.

Memory & Cognition is seeking submissions for a special issue or section featuring studies that present data from underrepresented populations. We are looking for empirical studies in human cognition in which the participants are drawn from populations that are underrepresented in the cognitive psychology literature. One of the primary goals of this Special Issue is to highlight cross-cultural cognitive research and to interrogate the ideas of human cognitive universals and human cognitive diversity. View the Call for Papers.

The left-side bias is not unique to own-race face processing

By Chenglin Li, Zhiguo Wang, Hui Bao, Jianping Wang, Shuang Chen & Xiaohua Cao 

To investigate whether the left-side bias is own-race specific or more general, Chinese students took chimeric face identification tests. Regardless of whether the faces belonged to Chinese or Caucasian people, there was a left-side bias. These findings suggest that the left-side preference is a general one. Read the article.

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By Curt A. Carlson, Jacob A. Hemby, Alex R. Wooten, Alyssa R. Jones, Robert F. Lockamyeir, Maria A. Carlson, Jennifer L. Dias & Jane E. Whittington

Nearly 20,000 (!) participant eyewitnesses took part in a lineup experiment, resulting in empirical support for two theories. The first is Tulving and Thomson's longstanding theory of encoding specificity. The other is a more recent theory – the diagnostic feature-detection theory – based on longstanding ideas of perceptual learning. Using these theories can help improve eyewitness identification performance. Read the article.

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