Congratulations to the New 2027 Governing Board Chair and 2026 Members! | |
The Governing Board has selected Monica S. Castelhano as the incoming Chair for 2027. Monica currently advises the Graduate Student Postdoc Committee and serves on the Awards, Finance, and Publications Committees. Since beginning her term in 2023, she has chaired the Awards Committee and served on the Diversity & Inclusion and Program Committees.
Ayşecan Boduroğlu, Koç University, Turkey and Audrey Duarte, University of Texas at Austin, USA, have been elected to the Governing Board by the membership. Ayşecan and Audrey will commence their six-year terms on January 1, 2026.
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Monica S. Castelhano
2027 Chair of the Governing Board
Monica S. Castelhano is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University in Canada. She is a first-generation graduate with a BSc (2000) from University of Toronto and received her MA (2002) and PhD (2005) from Michigan State University. Up until recently, she was the Chair of the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group in Psychology and is the incoming Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Castelhano's research in visual cognition centers on attention, eye movements and scene perception, with a focus on visual search in real-world environments. Her work has been funded by the World University Network, Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation, Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), from whom she recently received a Discovery Accelerator Grant. More.
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Ayşecan Boduroğlu
2026-2031 Board Member
Ayşecan Boduroğlu is a Professor of Psychology at Koç University. Her multipronged research program spans from visual perception to collective cognitive processes, examining the capabilities and limitations of the basic mechanisms underlying human cognition with an applied and cultural perspective. Specifically, her research explores how people’s internal representations of percepts and memories are systematically distorted reflecting the interactions between cognitive capabilities (and limitations), prior experiences, cultural lens and beliefs and sociopolitical identity. Over the years, she has established a wide net of national and international collaborations to advance her broad research agenda. Dr. Boduroğlu received her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005 and after a brief postdoctoral fellowship, in 2006, she joined the Psychology Department at Bogazici University in Istanbul where she worked until 2023. More.
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Audrey Duarte
2026-2031 Board Member
Audrey Duarte is a Professor of Psychology and Neurology at UT Austin and co-Director of the Texas Aging and Longevity Consortium. She received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology in 2004 from U.C. Berkeley. She is a cognitive neuroscientist who uses multiple, complementary, methods, including electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and neuropsychology (e.g. Alzheimer’s) to investigate neural changes underlying age-related episodic memory decline across the adult lifespan in diverse populations. She studies how malleable factors (e.g. depression, sleep, vascular disease) contribute to individual differences in memory impairment and decline and the social and structural determinants (e.g. race-related stress, acculturation, education and health care access) that underlie these associations in racially, socioeconomically, and culturally diverse populations. More.
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Thank you to the other candidates for agreeing to run in the election. Your willingness to serve demonstrates your commitment to our organization.
In January 2026, Myra Fernandes, University of Waterloo, becomes Governing Board Chair, and Eva Van den Bussche, KU Leuven, becomes Past Chair. Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol, and 2025 Chair of the Governing Board, will conclude his term at the end of this year.
A complete list of the 2025 Governing Board and Committees may be found here.
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One World Seminar Series Presents
Gordon Pennycook
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Abstract
It is commonly held that, due to motivated reasoning, people are resistant to evidence that contradicts established beliefs. Recent research has shown, however, that Artificial Intelligence can be leveraged to provide particularly strong counterevidence that is personalized to an individual's unique beliefs - leading, for example, to a 20% reduction in conspiracy beliefs that is durable (without decay) for at least 2 months. Here I will report evidence that AI can produce substantial belief change even if participants are given additional reasons to be motivated to reject the evidence: e.g., The AI can be explicitly labeled as partisan; participants can be told explicitly that it will try to debunk them; participants can be told that they're goal is to convince the AI that it is wrong; etc. The only manipulation that consistently undermines the AI debunking effect is when the AI is told that it cannot use facts and evidence.
All talks in the One World Seminar Series are underwritten by the Psychonomic Society and made available free of charge.
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Scientists Push Back: 90+ Organizations
Defend Proven Research Standards Against New U.S. Federal Order
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Over 90 scientific organizations, including the Psychonomic Society (PS), have banded together to address concerns about the recent "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. The coalition's letter to the U.S. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy doesn't reject the goal of high-quality science—instead, it argues that we shouldn't reinvent the wheel when the current scientific framework has already proven itself through centuries of breakthrough discoveries and innovations.
The real issue isn't that science lacks standards, but that imposing rigid, politically-motivated criteria could actually damage the very system that's brought us medical miracles and technological revolutions. PS joined this effort because we believe the scientific method's built-in features—evidence-based research, independent peer review, transparent sharing of data, and the ability to course-correct based on new findings—are exactly what make science trustworthy. Rather than undermining these proven principles, any new policies should work with them to ensure federally funded research continues serving as a reliable resource for solving our biggest challenges.
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