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Congratulations to the New
Governing Board Chair and Members!
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The Psychonomic Society Governing Board has elected Eva Van den Bussche, KU Leuven, as the 2025 Chair. Van den Bussche currently chairs the Society’s Publication Committee and is a member of its Ethics, Fellows, and Finance Committees.
Kristi Multhaup, Davidson College, and Claudia von Bastian, University of Sheffield, were elected by the membership. Multhaup and von Bastian will begin serving their six-year terms on January 1, 2024. Multhaup previously served as a member of the Program Committee and has co-organized multiple undergraduate workshops at past annual meetings. Von Bastian was a recent speaker in our One World Seminar Series.
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Eva Van den Bussche
2025 Governing Board Chair
Eva Van den Bussche is currently a research professor at KU Leuven (Belgium). She received her PhD in Psychology from KU Leuven in 2009. During her postdoc period with a fellowship of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), she visited the Université Paris Descartes as a postdoc fellow. Afterwards, she accepted an assistant professorship position at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2010 and worked at the University of Essex as a visiting lecturer. More.
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Kristi S. Multhaup
2024-2029 Board Member
Kristi S. Multhaup is the Vail Professor of Psychology at Davidson College in North Carolina. She earned her BA (1987) from Gustavus Adolphus College and her MA (1990) and PhD (1992) from Princeton University. Multhaup completed post-doctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis and at Duke University. More.
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Claudia von Bastian
2024-2029 Board Member
Claudia von Bastian is a Senior Lecturer (~associate professor) at the University of Sheffield, UK. She received her Ph.D. (2012) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She worked at the University of Bristol (UK), University of Colorado Boulder (US), and Bournemouth University (UK), before taking up her position at the University of Sheffield in 2017, where she now directs the Cognitive Ability & Plasticity Lab. More.
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In January 2024, Stephen Lewandowsky, University of Bristol, becomes Governing Board Chair, and Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University, becomes Past Chair. Governing Board Members who conclude their terms in 2023 include past Governing Board chairs Penny Pexman, Western University, and Duane Watson, Vanderbilt University.
A complete list of the 2023 Governing Board and Committees can be found here.
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Congratulations to the 2023
Best Article Award Recipients
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The Psychonomic Society Best Article Award honors individuals for the best paper published in each Psychonomic Society journal in the last year. We encourage you to read the articles (links provided below) and congratulate the recipients on their achievement.
Recipients will be honored at the Awards Ceremony held on Saturday, November 18 during the 2023 Annual Meeting.
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Family Care Grant Applications
Applications due: September 20
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The Psychonomic Society's Family Care Grant program is designed to support attendees who incur extra family care expenses above and beyond their regular family care expenses, in order to present at the Annual Meeting. This year, the Society is offering up to $500 USD in reimbursable expenses for attendees. The total available funding for 2023 is $5,000 USD. More.
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PS One World Seminar Series presents
Ven Popov on September 27
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If God Handed Us the Ground-Truth Theory of Memory, How Would We Recognize It?
Speaker: Ven Popov
Zurich University, Switzerland
September 27, 2023 | 11:15 AM - 1 PM ET | Register Here
Abstract: What makes a scientific theory convincing? We have many formal models of human memory, but no agreement about which is the right one. If anything, we agree that they are all wrong. Despite important theoretical milestones, models of human memory are fragmented, most often explaining single paradigms or memory types; they are incompatible with each other; they lack precision in their predictions, and due to our current parameter fitting approach, they are often little more than proof of concept exercises. More.
All talks in the One World Seminar Series are underwritten by the Psychonomic Society and made available free of charge. The Psychonomic Society is committed to programmatic accessibility and has secured ASL interpretation and quality closed captioning for all One World events in the 2023-2024 schedule.
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2024 Keynote Nominations
Nominations due: September 30
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All Psychonomic Society Fellows and Members are invited to nominate an eminent researcher to deliver the Keynote Address at the 2024 Annual Meeting, to be held at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square, New York, USA on November 21-24, 2024.
Nominees must be a distinguished Society member or non-member who would give a compelling talk. A list of current and previous keynote speakers is available here. The Nominations Committee will consider your nomination and create a shortlist to present to the Governing Board for final selection.
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Student Travel Grant from
Emerging/Developing Nations
Applications due October 4
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NEW IN 2023!
The Psychonomic Society will annually give up to five (5) Travel Grants for Graduate Student members of the Society who are traveling to the Annual Meeting from emerging or developing nations, as defined by the United Nations. Each Awardee will receive a stipend of $1,000 USD to support their participation in the annual meeting. Applications due October 4. More.
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PS/WiCS Networking Award for Junior Scientists
Applications due October 6
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Presenting one’s research at professional meetings is an important way for individuals to become known in the professional community and to develop collaborative relationships with other professionals in the field. The purpose of the Networking Award for Junior Scientists is to encourage early career researchers to participate in and network at the 23rd WICS Annual Meeting held immediately before the 2023 PS Annual Meeting.
Awards will provide up to $1,000 USD to cover travel expenses for the purpose of networking. Awardees are selected based on the strength of their plan toward developing collaborative or mentoring relationships while attending the Annual Meeting. Winners will be honored at a ceremony at the WiCS+ Meeting (a PS Affiliate Meeting) on Thursday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. US Pacific Time, before the formal start of the Psychonomic Society meeting.
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2023 Jogonomics
(5k or 5-Mile Runs Available)
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Join your fellow Psychonomes on Saturday, November 18 at 6:00 AM Pacific Time (subject to change based on weather) for a 5k or 5-mile run. You choose a distance and a pace that works best for you.
Sign up for Jogonomics when you register for the meeting. A waiver is required and can be found here. Jogonomics is organized by Marianne Lloyd, Seton Hall University, USA, & Jeffrey Zacks, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
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Just in time for the fall semester:
Strategic Learning, A Digital Event
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Psychonomic Society Journals | |
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How do people make complex decisions? Kleinberg and Marsh explored the decision-making process's balance between simplicity and complexity and found that simpled targeted causal paths resulted in better decision-making compared to those who sought no information or more complicated paths. Read this paper.
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What sample size do you need to detect a certain effect size? This tutorial shows how to express main and interaction effects in repeated measures ANOVA as single difference variables. you can access the relevant R code to try it yourself. Read this paper.
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Looking more criminal: It’s not so black and white
By Ashley M. Meacham, Heather M. Kleider-Offutt & Friederike Funk
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The researchers explored whether presenting criminal face-types in a crime context had an impact on legal judgments. Participants saw faces with varying criminality and in violent or nonviolent crimes. They then attempted to identify the perpetrator from a lineup. Participants with incorrect memories, selected faces with higher levels of criminality compared to the actual perpetrators. Read this paper.
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Abstracts in Languages other than English
The Psychonomic Society welcomes and encourages authors to submit manuscript abstracts in languages other than English. Authors should place the additional abstract immediately below the English-language abstract in the manuscript. If the manuscript is accepted, the additional abstract will be published alongside the English abstract. Please note that we cannot do any copyediting to the additional abstract.
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New Guidelines and Submission Process for Special Issue Proposals
Review the new guidelines here.
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SharedIt
Authors in our journals can share their content easily and legally through Springer’s SharedIt Program, a content-sharing initiative.
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PS members attend the Annual Meeting for FREE. Membership also gives you complimentary access to all seven PS journals, the chance to submit proposals for exclusive PS funding opportunities, and more. | | | | | |
