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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS APA- GRADUATE STUDENT INTERNS

The American Psychological Association’s Public Interest Government Relations Office announces a CALL FOR APPLICATIONS to the Public Interest Policy Internship for Graduate Students for the 2010 - 2011 academic year! APPLICATION DEADLINE is March 25, 2010.

FOR COMPLETE APPLICATION INFORMATION & FORMS REQUIRED, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.apa.org/about/gr/fellows/

Application: Interested students are required to submit the following materials by March 25, 2010:
1) a completed application coversheet (see attachment);
2) a current vitae providing information about educational background and any relevant professional, public policy, and/or legislative experience;
3) a personal statement of 500 words or less, expressing the applicant’s interest in psychology and public policy,  and what the applicant hopes to learn from the internship experience;
4) a letter from the Department indicating the applicant is enrolled and is in good standing with the college/university;
5) a literature review (limit five pages) displaying the applicant’s ability to translate complex ideas; and
6) three letters of recommendation that specifically address the applicant’s dependability, confidentiality, and aptitude for policy work or research, based on the recommender’s past or current experience with the applicant. Each letter of recommendation must also be accompanied by a Reference Survey (see attachment), to be completed by the author of the letter of recommendation.

Applications must be received in their entirety by March 25, 2010 and should be mailed to: American Psychological Association
Public Interest Government Relations Office - Internship Program
750 First Street, N.E.
Washington, DC  20002-4242
For additional information about the application process, please contact Tammy Barnes, Policy Assistant, at tbarnes@apa.org. 
Further information may also be found at http://www.apa.org/about/gr/fellows/

Posted March 15, 2010

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Journal of Personnel Psychology, Volume 9, Number 1, 2010 – free online access!

After nearly 10 years of experience and tradition in publishing high-quality, innovative research, the Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie has been transformed into the new Journal of Personnel Psychology (current Impact Factor: 1.8). The new editorial team, comprising Rolf van Dick (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Eva Demerouti (Eindhoven University, The Netherlands), Martin Kleinmann (University of Zürich, Switzerland), Deniz Ones (University of Minnesota, USA), and Thomas Staufenbiel (University of Osnabrück, Germany), and supported by Johannes Ullrich as managing editor, is pleased to announce that first issue has now been published online, with free access to all.

This issue covers a variety of topics such as the demand control model (Bakker et al., The Netherlands), employee identification (Edwards and Peccei, United Kingdom), effects of social desirability on hiring judgments (Christiansen and Burns, United States), autonomy and workload in relation to temporary and permanent workers' job involvement (De Cuyper et al., Belgium and Finland), and goal adaptation (König et al., Switzerland and The Netherlands).

This first issue of Journal of Personnel Psychology is available online free of charge via: http://www.hogrefe.com/journals/jpp

For free e-mail alerts whenever new issues are released online, please register and sign up at http://www.psycontent.com/content/1866-5888. And of course if you or your library are interested in subscribing, Hogrefe Publishing (www.hogrefe.com) would be delighted to hear from you.

We hope you will enjoy reading the articles and we look forward to receiving your submissions in all areas of personnel and organizational psychology at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jppsy/.

The Editorial Team
Journal of Personnel Psychology

Posted March 4, 2010

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REGISTRATION OPEN -Second EAWOP Early Career Summer School

The Second EAWOP Early Career Summer School is held in Valencia (Spain) from the 11th to the 17th of September 2010. The aim of the Second EAWOP Early Career Summer School for Advanced Work and Organizational Psychology is to foster inner-European research collaborations and to support the development of promising researchers in this field. The summer school presents the unique opportunity for young researchers to meet with fellow researchers and prominent professors and discuss their own work as well as aspects of being a researcher. The summer school will consist of a variety of activities:
1. Key Notes (held by senior scholars)
2. Sessions on fund raising, publishing and research management (held by senior scholars)
3. Group sessions where participants will present and discuss their own research with fellow participants and senior scholars
4. Poster sessions
5. Company visits
6. Social activities

More information: http://www.eawop.org/web/
Abstract submission deadline: March 29, 2010

Posted February 24, 2010

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OD World Summit 2010: “Co-Creating a New World of Organizations and Communities – Dialogue & Action”

August 22-26, 2010

This international event is unprecedented: it is a world summit of numerous professions, professional associations and their members – who other times usually belong to different communities of practice, thus might be keen to identify themselves with a specific tradition or approach.  The theme of the conference is meant to be meaningful not only for those specialized in OD but to all who are engaged with the current and future challenges of organizations and organizing; interested in studying, building and/or changing organizations and communities; or put the social-societal consequences of organizing in their focus. The aim is to invite everybody who works with organizations and organizational change, learning and development:
 

• representatives of the academic world,
• representatives of all sorts of organizations consulting to and developing individuals, teams, organizations, communities, larger systems, even societies,
• representatives of associations and institutions spreading the word and supporting the development of human systems,
• not-for-profit organization, focusing on different social issues/groups,
• leaders/founders of non-conventional organizations, who are pioneering with new ways of organizing themselves, their communities, their business models.

For more information please visit the website of the conference: www.odworldsummit.org

Posted January 26, 2010

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OD World Summit 2010: “Co-Creating a New World of Organizations and Communities – Dialogue & Action, ”  August 2010
This international event is unprecedented: it is a world summit of numerous professions, professional associations and their members – who other times usually belong to different communities of practice, thus might be keen to identify themselves with a specific tradition or approach.  The theme of the conference is meant to be meaningful not only for those specialized in OD but to all who are engaged with the current and future challenges of organizations and organizing; interested in studying, building and/or changing organizations and communities; or put the social-societal consequences of organizing in their focus. The aim is to invite everybody who works with organizations and organizational change, learning and development:

• representatives of the academic world,
• representatives of all sorts of organizations consulting to and developing individuals, teams, organizations, communities, larger systems, even societies,
• representatives of associations and institutions spreading the word and supporting the development of human systems,
• not-for-profit organization, focusing on different social issues/groups,
• leaders/founders of non-conventional organizations, who are pioneering with new ways of organizing themselves, their communities, their business models.

For more information please visit the website of the conference: www.odworldsummit.org

Posted 1/26/10

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Meta-Analysis

Zlatan Krizan and I are working on a meta-analysis, and we're hoping to gather any unpublished findings that might be relevant. The analysis examines the effect of feedback proximity on outcome predictions, so we're interested in any study that manipulates or measures (1) proximity to feedback regarding an outcome (e.g., the length of time until a student will find out an exam grade), and (2) measures some type of prediction regarding that outcome (e.g., the expected grade). A relevant study could also assess predictions about an outcome at two different points in time (e.g., in the form of a probability regarding a sporting event winner at two different time points before the game). If any of you have data along these lines and would be willing to share them with us, we would greatly appreciate it! We've set up an online form that will prompt you for the information we'd like to have:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y9D2H3N

Thank you in advance for your help, and let me or Dr. Krizan (zkrizan@iastate.edu) know if you have any questions or feedback!

Kate Sweeny
Posted January 20, 2010

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Meta-Analysis on Personality

Our research team at the University of Iowa is conducting a meta-analysis on the relationship between non-self-report measures of personality (Big Five and non-Big Five factors) and performance outcomes.
 
We highly appreciate if you could share with us your in-press paper or unpublished data. What we need is correlation coefficients and some basic information (e.g., sample size, rating sources). You are welcome to email Gary Wang at gang-wang@uiowa.edu.

Posted January 19, 2010

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My colleagues and I are looking at the nomological network of TMX and we are seeking unpublished studies that examine the relation of TMX to many OB/HR variables. If you have a study that you would be willing to include in this meta-analysis please contact George Banks at banksgc@vcu.edu.

Please also include how you would like your study cited.

Posted December 15, 2009

Going Global with Study, Teaching and Service in Psychology – Call for Programming at the 2010 APA Convention 
 
APA’s Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) is sponsoring a roundtable session at the 2010 APA Convention in San Diego to inform about international study, teaching, and service opportunities for psychologists. "Going Global with Study, Teaching and Service" will provide a platform for psychologists to discuss and learn about opportunities, gather ideas, and network with others interested in or engaged in international teaching, international study abroad, international research, and international applications of psychology and service.

CIRP is seeking contact information for those of you who are or have been involved in such activities (e.g. study abroad courses, international teaching, Doctors without Borders, international consulting, etc.) and brief descriptions of what you are doing or have done and where. CIRP’s aim is to identify individuals who would be willing to share information about the programs they are involved in, study abroad courses they have developed, etc. in a roundtable format that promotes a cross-fertilization of ideas and opportunities for expanding our own perspectives, as well as that of our students.

Please send your contact information and a short (paragraph length) description of your international experience to mbullock@apa.org. If your experience is in the Fulbright program or Peace Corps please indicate that in the header of the email (we are developing separate lists for activities with those organizations).

Posted November 30, 2009