THURSDAY

1998 WPA FILM FESTIVAL
10:00 - 4:15 Santo Domingo

SPECIAL MEETING
8:30 - 3:30 Hyatt Regency, Fiesta Room

California State University Psychology Department Chairs
Chair: Eleanor Levine, California State University, Hayward

POSTER SESSION 1
9:00 - 10:45 Ballroom C

Human Learning, Memory, and Cognition

PAPER SESION
9:00 - 10:15 Tesuque-Zuni

Attitudes And Attitude Change
Chair: Knud S. Larsen, Oregon State University

SYMPOSIUM
9:00 - 10:30 Isleta-Jemez

Enhancing Undergraduates' Academic Success Through Research
And Extracurricular Activities: The Hidden Curriculum
Chair: Luis Vega, California State University, Bakersfield

SYMPOSIUM
9:30 - 11:00 Taos-Cochiti

Ethnic Minorities: Critical Analyses Of Social And Mental Health Concerns
Chair: Philip D. Akutsu, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology

INVITED PRESENTATION
9:45 - 10:45 Picuris-Sandia-Santa Ana

The perception of hate speech
Chair: Dale E. Berger, Claremont Graduate University

Synopsis of Presentation

With the public debate on hate speech as freedom of expression versus its harm, the psychology of hate speech is a worthy topic for empirical study. This presentation reviews the debate on hate speech, including legal issues, and describes a study investigating target and victim variables on the perception of hate speech.

Biography

Gloria Cowan received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and is Professor of Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her recent published research focuses on social issues such as pornography, rape beliefs, attitudes toward illegal immigrants, and women's hostility toward other women.

PAPER SESSION
10:30 - 12:00 Acoma

Culture and personality
Chair: Charles E. Kimble, University of Dayton

PAPER SESSION
10:30 - 11:45 Tesuque-Zuni

Romantic attraction
Chair: Laura J. Palucki, Claremont Graduate University

POSTER SESSION 2
11:00 - 12:45 Ballroom C

Psychology and law, industrial/organizational psychology, and applied psychology

SPECIAL EVENT
RMPA ELLIS-BATTIG MEMORY SYMPOSIUM
11:00 - 1:00 Picuris-Sandia-Santa Ana

Chair: Mark McDaniel, University of New Mexico

Working Memory Capacity, Controlled Attention and General
Fluid Intelligence, Randy Engle (Georgia Tech)

Synopsis of Presentation

I will summarize my recent work which demonstrates that working memory capacity has a connection to controlled attention and general fluid intelligence. Further, the constructs appear to be mediated by structures in the prefrontal cortex.

Biography

Ph.D. Ohio State, 1973; King College, 1972-74; University of South Carolina, 1974-75; Professor and Chair, Georgia Tech, 1976-present.

Focus of Attention: A Meeting Place for Explanations of Mood Congruence and Depression-Related Deficits in Memory, Paula T. Hertel (Trinity University)

Synopsis of Presentation

Two lines of research on memory in depressed states show evidence of of unimpaired or superior recollection of mood-congruent material, yet impaired recollection of neutral material. I will describe experiments that are relevant to each line and that were motivated by the simple notion that depressed people pay differential attention to materials as a function of their mood states.

Biography

Paula Hertel is Professor of Psychology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and Chair of the Psychology Department. For the past 8 Years, her research on depression and memory has been published both in mainstream cognitive journals, such as the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and in clinically-oriented journals, such as the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion.

A Reconstructionist Account of Repetition Blindness and Orthographic Similarity Effects, Michael E. J. Masson (University of Victoria)

Synopsis of Presentation

The report of the second occurence of a repeated word, or of a word that is orthographically similar to an earlier word, in a rapidly presented list is reduced relative to report of a control word. Abstractionist accounts of these effects propose that tokenization of a repeated or orthographically related word is blocked, whereas a reconstructionist account ascribes these interference effects to reconstructive aspects of remembering. Experiments demonstrating reconstructive influences on these interference effects are reported, providing evidence for the reconstructive account.

Biography

Michael Masson received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Colorado and is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria. He conducts research in memory and language processing and recently completed a term as an associate editor of Memory & Cognition. He presently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition; Memory & Cognition; and the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Aging and Prospective Memory Retrieval, Gilles O. Einstein (Furman University)

Synopsis of Presentation

Although some theorists have characterized prospective memory retrieval as a relatively automatic process, others have described it as a strategic or attention-demanding process. I will review these views and present data suggesting that the demands of prospective memory retrieval depend on the characteristics of the task and have important implications for understanding age-related differences in prospective memory.

Biography

After receiving a BA from Lafayette College and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Gil Einstein began teaching at Furman University in 1977. He won the Meritorious Teaching Award in 1985, and is now chair of the Psychology Department. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: LMC, and his research on aging and prospective memory is funded by the National Institute of Aging. He is delighted to participate in this symposium because Bill Battig was his mentor in graduate school, and Henry Ellis was his host and mentor during a sabbatical at the University of New Mexico.

PSI-CHI SYMPOSIUM
11:00 - 12:00 Navajo-Nambe

Publishing in the psi chi journal of undergraduate research
Chair: Nancy J. Karlin, University of Northern Colorado, Psi Chi Vice-President, Rocky Mountain Region

SYMPOSIUM
11:00 - 12:00 Isleta-Jemez

Intergenerational relationship in immigrant and refugee families
Chair: Yu-Wen Ying, University of California, Berkeley

SYMPOSIUM
11:15 - 12:45 Taos-Cochiti

Using internet resources to teach statistics
Chair: Dale E. Berger, Claremont Graduate University

SPECIAL EVENT
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
G. STANLEY HALL LECTURE
11:45 - 12:45 Ballroom A

The truth about burnout
Chair: Robert L. Solso, University of Nevada, Reno

Synopsis of Presentation

Job burnout is becoming an issue of increasing concern in today's working world, because of its major costs for both employees and organizations. The conventional wisdom is that burnout is primarily a problem of individuals. But research by myself and my colleagues argues otherwise. Burnout is not a problem of people but of the social environment in which they work. The structure and functioning of the workplace shape how people interact with one another and how they carry out their jobs. And when that workplace does not recognize the human side of work, and there are major mismatches between the nature of the job and the nature of people, thenthere will be a greater risk of burnout.

Biography

Christina Maslach is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, where she has been on the faculty since 1971. She has conducted research in a number of areas, but with a particular focus on job burnout. Her latest book is The Truth About Burnout, and her prior books include Burnout: The Cost of Caring, and Professional Burnout: Recent Developments in Theory and Research. She is also the author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), the most widely used research measure in the burnout field. In 1997 she was named "Professor of the Year" by the Carnegie Foundation. Among her other honors are the presidency of the Western Psychological Association, the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California at Berkeley, and her recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science who honored her "For groundbreaking work on the applications of social psychology to contemporary problems."

PAPER SESSION
12:45 - 2:15 Isleta-Jemez

Educational and school psychology
Chair: Nancy Arthur, University of Calgary

POSTER SESSION 3
1:00 - 2:45 Ballroom C

Social issues

SPECIAL EVENT
WPA INVITED SYMPOSIUM
1:00 - 2:30 Taos-Cochiti

Social Psychophysiology
Chair: David Shapiro, University of California, Los Angeles

Social Psychophysiology: A 20-Year Perspective,
David Shapiro, University of California, Los Angeles

Synopsis of Presentation

This paper will look back at the history of social psychophysiology with special reference to an overview published in 1969 in the Handbook of Social Psychology. Where were we then and where are we now? Conceptual and methodological advances will be discussed including the development of new devices for the study of social psychophysiological processes in everyday situations.

Biography

Ph.D. in Psychology in 1953 (University of Michigan), Lecturer to Associate Professor, Departments of Social Relations and Psychiatry, Harvard University, 1953-74. Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, UCLA, 1974-present. Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychophysiology, 1988. Current Research: Blood pressure, cognitive function, and MRI in healthy elderly; occupational stress in nurses.

Social Psychophysiological Contributions to Understanding the
Association Between Social Relationships and Health,
Bert N. Uchino, University of Utah

Synopsis of Presentation

A defining feature of social psychophysiology is its emphasis on multilevel integrative analyses to understand complex psychological phenomenon. The utility for this perspective will be illustrated by research aimed at elucidating the potential mechanisms linking social relationships to health outcomes.

Biography

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah.

Threat and Challenge: Motivational and Emotional Implications,
Joe Tomaka, University of Texas, El Paso

Synopsis of Presentation

Threat and challenge are patterns of stress-related responding that result from cognitive appraisals of situational demands and that have distinct affective, behavioral and cardiovascular consequences. I will briefly discuss the nature of threat and challenge responses and then discuss some recent research examining the motivational underpinnings of such responses, as well as discuss research relating threat and challenge within the broader context of emotion theory.

Biography

Joe Tomaka received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993. He then served briefly on the faculty at the university of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on the relations among cognition, motivation, and autonomic physiology in stress-related contexts.

INVITED PRESENTATION
1:00 - 2:00 Ballroom A

Educating the human brain: a view from inside
Chair: Gerald Ginsburg, University of Nevada, Reno

Synopsis of Presentation

The methods of neuroimaging allow examination of the normal human brain in the process of acquiring and executing such high level skills as reading, calculating and retrieving facts. By combining use of high density electrical recording and changes cerebral blood flow, we can examine the anatomy of these skills in real time. Some skills are acquired very slowly. The area of the brain that synthesizes visual letters into a unified word develops very slowly over years of acquiring the skill of reading. Once developed, it is resistant to change. On the other hand, semantic information about words is acquired rapidly and is easily automated. Surprisingly, access to the number line in mental calculation appears similar in five year olds and adults. Acquisition of new information can influence performance either implicitly, without awareness of the subject, or explicitly through deliberate reference to past experience. In our studies we observed the course of the operation of these conscious and unconscious learning mechanisms.

Biography

1959, University of Washington, Seattle, MS in Psychology; 1962, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ph.D. in Psychology; 1967-present, Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon; 1995-98, Head, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon; 1995-98, Distinguished Professor, College of Arts and Sciences.

PAPER SESSION
1:00 - 2:00 Acoma

Personality
Chair: Paul C. Price, California State University, Fresno

SPECIAL EVENT
STUP INVITED PRESENTATION
2:00 - 3:00 Picuris-Sandia-Santa Ana

Academic dishonesty: current status, athletes and cheating, and cross-cultural findings
Chair: Rick Miller, University of Nebraska, Kearney
Presenter: Stephen F. Davis, Emporia State University

Synopsis of Presentation

This presentation reviews the results of a ten-year project investigating academic dishonesty. Topics such as prevalance, techniques, causes, deterrents, and solutions are examined. Although college students served as participants, academic dishonesty in both high school and college is considered. Attention is given to current research being conducted on the cross-cultural nature of academic dishonesty and academic dishonesty among collegiate athletes.

Biography

BA and MA - Southern Methodist University, Ph.D. - Texas Christian University. Past President: APA Division 2; Southwestern Psychlogigal Association; Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology; Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology. Fellow: APA (Divisions 1, 2, 6), American Psychologigal Society. Recipient: American Psychological Foundation National Teaching Award; APA Division 2 Teaching Excellence Award; Florence L. Denmark/Psi Chi National Advisor Award.

PAPER SESSION
2:00 - 3:00 Tesuque-Zuni

Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Chair: Susan E. Murphy, Claremont McKenna College

PSI CHI SYMPUSIUM
2:00 - 3:00 Navajo-Nambe

Getting into and succeeding in graduate school
Chair: Nancy J. Karlin, University of Northern Colorado, Psi Chi Vice-President, Rocky Mountain Region

PAPER SESSION
2:15 - 3:15 Acoma

Environmental Psychology
Chair: Paul A. Bell, Colorado State University

CUPP INVITED SYMPOSIUM
2:45 - 4:15 Taos-Cochiti

Perspectives on undergraduate research
Chair: Cindy-Miller Perrin, Pepperdine University

POSTER SESSION 4
3:00 - 4:45 Ballroom C

Gender-related issues and sexuality

SYMPOSIUM
3:00 - 4:00 Isleta-Jemez

A review of new measures of intelligence
Chair: Mary J. McLellan, Northern Arizona University

SPECIAL EVENT
GROUPS UNDER-REPRESENTED INVITED ADDRESS
3:15 - 4:15 Ballroom A

Community psychology, diversity, and the new multi-culturalism
Chair: Genie Canales, Northern Colorado University

Synopsis of Presentation

The role of community psychology in multi-culturalism includes following demographic trends and assessing their potential impact on institutions, groups, and individuals. The percentage of psychologists of color has not increased in 20 years in the American Psychological Association and is currently at the 5% level. Issues of cultural competence face psychological associations and training programs. The challenges of diversity are presented.

Biography

Israel Cuellar obtained his Ph.D. in Community Psychology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1977. He practiced psychology for 15 years and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Anthropology at UT-Pan American. He is the developer of the most widely used scale for assessing aculturation in Mexican-Americans. This scale has served also as a model for the development of acculturation scales for various ethnic and racial groups outside the United States.

INVITED PRESENTATION
3:15 - 4:15 Picuris-Sandia-Santa Ana

Cognitive & clinical perspectives on mood dependent memory
Chair: James Russell, University of British Columbia

Synopsis of Presentation

Two approaches to the problem of mood dependent memory (MDM) are identified and illustrated. One approach features laboratory studies involving experimentally induced moods, and focuses on cognitive factors that play pivotal roles in the occurrence of MDM. The second approach explores MDM in individuals who experience marked shifts in mood state as a consequence of a psychopathological condition, such as manic/depressive illness or dissociative identity disorder. In today's talk, I review recent research on both of these fronts, and discuss some of the advantages of studying MDM from both a cognitive and a clinical perspective.

Biography

Eric Eich is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he pursues research on the state dependent effects of drugs, emotions, and environments on learning and remembering. A former member of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance, he currently serves as associate editor of Cognition and Emotion.

PAPER SESSION
3:30 - 4:30 Acoma

Emotion
Chair: Dale O. Jorgenson, California State University, Long Beach

SPECIAL EVENT
4:00 - 5:30

University of New Mexico open house and reception
Host: Mark McDaniel, University of New Mexico

Check the Message Board for information on transportation to and from the University

PAPER SESSION
4:15 - 5:15 Navajo-Nambe

Attention and Information Processing
Chair: Brennis Lucero-Wagoner, California State University, Northridge

SYMPOSIUM
4:15 - 5:45 Isleta-Jemez

Psychological Science in the Courtroom: Five Years After Daubert
Chair: Charles R. Honts, Boise State University

INVITED PRESENTATION
4:30 - 5:30 Ballroom A

Individuality as process and content in cross-cultural contexts
Chair: Gerald Ginsburg, University of Nevada, Reno

Synopsis of Presentation

Scholars recognize that the sense of personhood differs across cultures. Generally speaking, Western societies tend to promote an autonomous sense of self; non-Western societies value a socially embedded sense of the person. A view of psychological agency is presented here which proposes that in all cultural contexts individual human action is significant and need not threaten the importance of a "relational" identity.

Biography

Associate Professor, Psychology, New York University; Fellow, American Psychologigal Association (Divisions 12, 24, 29, 32, 45); Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, ABPP; Recent Book (1995): Psychology and African Americans: A humanistic approach (2nd edition).

CTUP INVITED PRESENTATION
4:30 - 6:00 Picuris-Sandia-Santa Ana

The Last Lecture
Chair: Robert Johnson, Umpqua Community College

For the ninth year, the Council of Teachers of Undergraduate Psychology invites distinguished teachers to give their "last lecture" - a deliberately ambiguous assignment that involves a reflective look at teaching. The Last Lecture always elicits responses that are as fascinating as they are unpredictable.

RMPA INVITED PRESENTATION
5:00 - 6:00 Taos-Cochiti

Joe Palladino & Mitch Handelsman's Production of
psych follies with the Psi Witness News

WPA-RMPA-CTUP SOCIAL HOUR
6:00 - 7:00 Pavilion Room
Hyatt Regency Hotel

We wish to thank Brooks-Cole Publishers for their sponsorship of this event.

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