Article archive / February 2017
Originally published: . Volume 8, No. 2. Source pages: 16.
The 29th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) will be held in Boston, May 25 to 28.
Some highlights include Lila R. Gleitman, PhD, who will deliver the Fred Kavli Keynote Address, “Only When the Shoe Fits: Primitive Procedures for Vocabulary Learning.” The Presidential Symposium will be “Sense and Sensibility: How Our Bodies Do––and Don’t–– Shape Our Minds.” And the 2017 Cross-Cutting theme program will include, “The Many Flavors of Relationships.”
This theme addresses how people are living alone, working longer, and living to old age more than ever before. These changing demographics raise the importance of understanding the myriad of relationships in which people live, including family connections during early childhood, peers in late childhood and early adulthood, and professional networks in the workplace.
“Doing the Most for the Many: Psychological Scientists Who Inform Public Policies,” will gather together those experienced in public areas, including clinical, community, developmental, and social psychology experts, to discuss their experiences interacting with the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state and federal governments.
Massachusetts Representative Ruth Balser, who was the first psychologist elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, and Laurence Steinberg, whose research on and amicus brief about adolescent brain development informed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the juvenile death penalty. Also included is Patrick DeLeon, American Psychological Association
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