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Convention Registration Hours
Wednesday 4 pm – 7:30 pm
Thursday 7 am – 6 pm
Friday 7 am – 7 pm
Saturday 7 am – 5 pm
Sunday 7:30 am – 10:30 am
Announcing our Fabulous Featured Speakers
The theme of the 2024 WPA conference is Psychology in Action: Using psychology to address larger social problems. In line with this focus, we have a number of fabulous, invited speakers whose work applies psychology to improving the world. We have a sampling of these speakers listed below.
Dr. Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University – Social norms messaging for environmental action | Dr. William D. Crano, Claremont Graduate University – Persuasion to prevent adolescent drug use | Dr. Cedric Dark, Baylor University Medical School – Prevention of gun violence| Dr. Keanan Joyner, Cal Berkeley – Psychological mechanisms underlying risk for substance use disorders | Dr. Dacher Keltner, Cal Berkeley – The science of awe | Dr. Hazel Markus, Stanford University – Culture change | Dr. Amy Moors, Chapman University – Consensual nonmonogamy | Dr. Thomas Parham, President, Cal State Dominguez Hills – The role of psychologists in our divided world (tentative topic) | Dr. Jason T. Siegel, Claremont Graduate University – Persuading people with depression to seek help | Dr. Guido Urizar, Cal State Long Beach – Infant and maternal health in underserved populations | Dr. Wendi Williams, Fielding University – Black women in leadership
In addition to these distinguished speakers, we also will feature numerous engaging sessions including our ever-popular statistics workshops, teaching conference and conversation hours. As always, we have a full program of CE available. Other notable highlights of WPA include yoga classes and opportunities to engage in mindfulness and gratitude exercises. In another first, we will engage community service project, partnering with a local San Francisco non-profit this year, Project Open Hand, serving clients with chronic health issues through nutrition and education. This activity will occur during the convention.