SPSP has launched a new way to connect with other SPSP members—Free-Form Fridays. Small virtual meeting rooms (generally max. 10 attendees) will be hosted every Friday. These rooms are available for members to use for a variety of activities: finding researchers with similar interests, finding support from members tackling similar career challenges, feedback and brainstorming sessions, and more.
Take advantage of this opportunity to connect with other members.
Have an idea to host a Free-Form Friday session? Apply to host a future session (submit a meeting name, host, description, and preferred dates/times). Free-Form Fridays will be taking a break in February. Submit your March session idea by February 8, 2021.
January Free-Form Schedule
All Times U.S. Eastern Time Zone
Do you have questions about pursuing applied psychology in non-academic settings? Are you curious about typical expectations, research funding scenarios and success factors for first jobs out of graduate school or for faculty looking to leave academe? Your host, Dr. Eric Lang, is a Social Psychologist who has worked in business, a "think tank" and the Federal Government. He now directs a DoD research center. Dr. Lang will provide some "insider" insights and tips but, more importantly, will dedication the majority of session to addressing your interests. Questions on any topic are welcome such as: work/life balance?, getting a security clearance?, publishing?, international collaborations?, happiness and professional identity?
Host: Eric Lang (Eric.L.Lang6.civ@mail.mil), Personnel & Security Research Center ("PERSEREC"), in the US Department of Defense
We'll talk about what journals, editors, and reviewers do during the journal peer review process. This could be a useful for session for anyone interested in talking about how journals work, what it's like to be an editor or reviewer, how to navigate the process as an author, how we can improve journal peer review, or anything else related to journals and peer review!
Host: Simine Vazire (simine@gmail.com), University of Melbourne
This year marks fifty years since Tajfel, Billig, Bundy, and Flament published their classic article that launched the minimal group paradigm. The minimal group paradigm challenged the conventional wisdom that discrimination requires conflict over resources or animosity between groups. This discussion will reflect on this classic paper and the research that it inspired.
Host: Kyle Ratner (kyle.ratner@psych.ucsb.edu), University of California, Santa Barbara
The legacy of Henri Tajfel’s classic paper is tarnished by revelations that he was a serial sexual harasser. This discussion will focus on the moral issues that arise for researchers inspired by Tajfel's minimal group work and theorizing but also deeply troubled by his behavior and harm to women.
Host: Kyle Ratner (kyle.ratner@psych.ucsb.edu), University of California, Santa Barbara
Jacy Young (jacy.young@questu.ca), Quest University Canada
