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Monthly Archive October, 2012

Icon array generator

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We’ve written before about using information grids when communicating risks to the general public. We like them. Turns out they are also called pictographs and, as we learned from an email from Brian Zikmund-Fisher, icon arrays.

Professorships at Yale School of Management. Deadline Nov 7, 2012

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The Yale School of Management is seeking additional faculty members at all levels in the area of organizational behavior. Ph.D./Ph.D. equivalent (or at the final stages of dissertation) and demonstrated potential for high quality research and teaching required. Interdisciplinary orientation and interest in theory and application is preferred. Appointments will be made for the 2013 – 2014 academic year.

SCP Summer Conference in Hawaii July 31-Aug 4, 2013

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The Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP) will hold its summer conference as part the 121st Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) from July 31st to August 4th 2013 at the Hawaii Convention Center. SCP (Division 23 of APA) represents consumer researchers and psychologists interested in a broad range of consumer research issues united by psychological theories.

Postdoc at Columbia University’s Center for the Decision Sciences (CDS)

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Columbia University’s Center for the Decision Sciences (CDS) anticipates hiring a postdoctoral fellow for a period of a minimum one year with an immediate start date. The position includes a full time salary and health benefits, starting as early as October 15th, 2012 and continuing until January 31st, 2014, with the possibility of renewal.

Kahneman on the storm of doubts surrounding social priming research

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Daniel Kahneman issued an open letter to researchers doing social priming research, which has become the subject of skepticism after some studies were found to be fabricated and others were not able to be independently replicated. His letter offers advice to scholars about how to address the situation, and we at DSN like the approach: Simply find out the truth and announce it.