Presentations by Major Speakers at WPA

Steven Lopez of the University of Southern California, program chair for the 2010 convention, and WPA President Stanley Sue have invited an outstanding group of psychologists who will be presenting talks on a variety of topics. The WPA student council, headed by graduate student representative Michelle Rozenman, is arranging for student conversation hours to follow many of the speakers.

Program Highlights

Zim, the Wiz, Will Hypnotize You All: The Magic, Mystery, Mirth and Reality of Hypnosis
Philip Zimbardo (Stanford University)

WPA President’s Invited Symposium: 10th Year Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity: An update and audience discussion with the authors of the report.

WPA Presidential Address
Ethnic Minority Issues: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Research
Stanley Sue (University of California, Davis)

APA G. Stanley Hall Lecture
The More Things Change…: Teaching About Stereotyping and Prejudice
Mary E. Kite (Ball State University)

WPA Teaching Award Address
Arranging to be Taken by Surprise
Robert B. Cialdini (Arizona State University)

STP Invited Presentation
Operation Aries! Using the Principles of Serious Games and the Science of Learning to Teach Scientific Thinking
Diane Halpern (Claremont McKenna College) with
Art Graesser, Keith Millis, and the Talented Humans and Avatars from Team Aries

WPA Early Career Research Award Address
Beyond Genius: New Ways of Thinking About Creativity
James C. Kaufman (California State University, San Bernardino)

Psi Chi Invited Presentation
Social Networking Online: Developmental Issues for Adolescents and Emerging Adults
Patricia M. Greenfield (University of California, Los Angeles)

Psychological Perspectives on Social Inequities: Culture, Behavior, and Health Disparities
Hector Betancourt (Loma Linda University, USA, and Universidad de La Frontera, Chile)

East Is East, and West Is West. What Happens When The Twain Shall Meet? Studying Stress and Coping in Asian Immigrants
Chi-Ah Chun (California State University, Long Beach)

Ethnic and International Disparities in Cancer: Incidence, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Terry A. Cronan (San Diego State University)

Acculturation and the Well-Being of American Immigrant Families and Children: Factors that Produce Differences in Adaption
Jo Ann Farver (University of Southern California)

Mexican Ethnopsychology: Assertiveness
Mirta Margarita Flores Galaz (Autonomous University of Yucatan) This presentation will be delivered in Spanish

Remembering Trauma in Childhood
Gail S. Goodman (University of California, Davis)

The Neurobiology of Maladaptive Decision Making: Insight from the Animal Model
Alicia Izquierdo (California State University, Los Angeles)

Risky Decision-Making: From Genes to Circuits to Addictions
J. David Jentsch (University of California, Los Angeles)

The TRIOS Factor: A Psychocultural Theory of Surviving and Thriving in the African Diaspora
James M. Jones (University of Delaware)

Values, Beliefs and Norms of the Mexican Family: 50 Years of Socio-Cultural Premises
Rolando Diaz-Loving (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention: A Dialogue Between Clinical Science and Neuroscience in the Treatment of Addictive Behavior
G. Alan Marlatt (University of Washington) and M. Kathleen B. Lustyk (Seattle Pacific University)

What Longitudinal Data Do We Really Need?
John J. McArdle (University of Southern California)

Beyond Heritability: Using Genetically Informative Samples to Study Etiology and Heterogeneity in Psychopathology
Carol A. Prescott (University of Southern California)

On the Underlying Bases of Implicit Attitude Variability and Malleability
Jeffrey W. Sherman (University of California, Davis)

Scientists, Psychologists, Artists: Creativity and Creators Across and Within Disciplines
Dean Keith Simonton (University of California, Davis)

The Emotionate Child
Ross A. Thompson (University of California, Davis)

Invited Symposium: Construyendo Puentes: The Value of Research and Teaching Collaborations Between Mexican and U.S. Scholars
Daniel L. DeNeui (Southern Oregon University) and Leticia Chacón Gutiérrez (Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus León)

Invited Symposium: Remembering Dr. Rogelio Diaz-Guerrero: A Pioneer in Cultural Psychology
Steven Lopez (University of Southern California)

Society for the Teaching of Psychology Last Lecture
Lessons I Learned: The Hard Way
Ron Riggio (Claremont McKenna College)
How My Research Enhances My Teaching: Challenge, Choice, and Curiousity
Adele Eskeles Gottfried (CSU Northridge)
The Accidental Social Psychologist
Anne Duran (CSU Bakersfield)

Martha Zlokovich from Psi Chi will be presenting information on submissions to the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research

Jessica Kohout from the APA Center for Workforce Studies will give a presentation on The Future of the Psychology Workforce: Statistics and Trends