Pomona College Psychological Science

Zoom registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__v1xceytTOGOSpRHxSEXBA

Interested in what psychology has to say about climate change? Professor Pearson is co-organizing a half-day webinar conference TOMORROW, Friday, Oct. 23rd, from 8-11am Pacific Time, which will feature talks and an expert panel Q/A with 15 top behavioral scientists who work on climate change. Registration is FREE and open to the public: ... sites.google.com/colorado.edu/bcp2020/home See more

Check out this podcast interview with Professor Eric Hurley!

EVENT! Ever wonder what you can do with a degree in psychological science? The department is hosting an alumni event that covers this very topic, scheduled for Saturday 10/24 from 1-2:30pm! Use this link to sign up: https://tinyurl.com/POalumpanel

Check out this event on equity in STEM! For more information, including the Zoom details, contact Professor Stranford ([email protected])

Check out this great summer opportunity!

Students--check out this upcoming event, organized by your department liaisons! GAME DAY!

This is likely to be extremely useful! RSVP link: https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eg0cFtISzQ4J3wh

We are pleased to announce the election of our two newest student-faculty liaisons, Cogie Celzo and Ananya Saluja! They join the senior liaisons, Tanya Shah and Zane Chung-Mehdi. Liaisons serve as student representatives to the department, organize community events, and are excellent resources for information about anything psych related. Welcome, Cogie and Ananya! Cogie Celzo is a Psychological Science major and Asian American Studies minor based in Fort Mohave, AZ. Coming ...from the Philippines, Cogie finds his academic interests in viewing Psych. Science under the lenses of specific cultural contexts. Because of this, he has enjoyed Asian American Psychology with Professor Goto and is enjoying Race, Empire, & Filipinx America at Pitzer as well. A C.R.A.B. (Culture, Race, and Brain) Lab member and an A.A.R.C. (Asian American Resource Center) intern, he hopes to incorporate community participation and betterment into the work he pursues in Psych. Science, may it be clinically or academically (who knows?) As a liaison, Cogie wishes to center how we are able to utilize Psych. Science to aid in the collective liberation of our communities on the ground and in academia. He’d love to talk about analyzing Psych. Science through a critical lens (or about Psych. in general) through email ([email protected]). If he isn’t busy strumming on his guitar, caring for his houseplants, or looking recipes up only to not follow them, he’ll reply in 11sec., 11min, or 11hrs (as his email signature proclaims). Ananya Saluja is an international student from New Delhi, India, but she is spending her semester in Providence, Rhode Island! A junior and aspiring Psychology-Politics double major, her favourite class from her time at Pomona so far is Personality Psychology with Professor Masland. She is looking forward to interacting with students from across the globe, and the phenomenal Psychological Science faculty, in her role as liaison, and hopes she can play a part in understanding how to better move away from a Eurocentric approach to the subject, in an attempt to increase inclusivity and cultural competence. She can be contacted on Facebook, Instagram, or by email ([email protected]), and loves talking to new people. Outside of class you can find her dancing to Bollywood songs with the rest of her dance team, making tea during Writing Center shifts, Zoom calling across time zones with the ISMP community, or looking at pictures of corgis. She's so excited to be a liaison, and she hopes she does the Psych Sci community proud!

CHIRP! Faculty Research Update! 1. Professor Smiley Patricia Smiley is second author on a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Written with co-authors Reout Arbel (University of Haifa) and Jessica Borelli (University of California, Irvine), the paper is titled Charting the Physiological Time Course of Help Seeking in Late Childhood: Patterns of Individual Difference. 2. Professor Pearson co-edited a special issue on climate change ...and public policythe first special issue of an academic journal focused on behavioral science contributions to climate change policy. Behavioural Climate Policy, published in the journal Behavioural Public Policy, brings together a collection of new articles exploring how behavioral science can inform climate policy and decision making, while highlighting unique challenges and opportunities that climate change poses for behavioral science. It includes commentary by Carnegie Mellon University’s Baruch Fischhoff describing the history of the intersection of behavioral and climate science, and its potential. https://www.easp.eu//new_special_issue_on_climate_cha-1193 3. Professor Pearson also wrote the introduction to the special issue on climate change for the journal Behavioural Public Policy.

Interested in applying for a PhD or PsyD in clinical psychology, but worried about the GRE? Many programs are waiving GRE requirements this year, and some have removed them permanently. Here is a spreadsheet with details: https://docs.google.com//1f6ZyVGn-opa_ijRyntHxfJ/htmlview