Upcoming psych colloquia

Hi everyone:

There are three colloquia in the psych department in May that you might be interested in.

* Tobacco prevention research interests? On May 10 @ 2pm, Dr. Gary Berntson from the Behavioral Neuroscience Program will speak on "Tobacco Woes & the Miracle of Marlboro: A Case Study in the Conflation of Science and Industry (or Science and Reality)." Location: 035 Psych Bldg.

* Using perceived norms as a variable and/or wanna hear someone who's been, well, influential in the field of influence? On May 10 @ 4pm, Dr. Robert Cialdini will give a talk on injunctive and descriptive norms. He'll be talking about applications in environmental research, but the distinction between these types of norms has been important in health comm/prevention research, too. Location: 035 Psych Bldg. http://sbig.org.ohio-state.edu/06-07/Cialdini.html

* Identity or social comparison research interests? On May 17 @ 4pm, Dr. Marilyn Brewer will give a talk with the intriguing title "The Human Dilemma: Being the Same and Different at the Same Time." Location: Wexner Center Film/Video Theater. This is one in a series of University Distinguished Lectures, so there will be a reception to follow.

You can check out the pscyh department's Web site for more information, although I have to say that there isn't one place that lists everything (since they're put on by different research groups). http://www.psy.ohio-state.edu/

Nori

New grant competition

As posted on the OSU COPS blog... might be of interest to HCRG members.

SPECIAL CALL DEADLINE: July 1st, 2007

ATTENTION ALL SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHERS:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORIGINAL DATA COLLECTION VIA TESS!

The National Science Foundation, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, is funding opportunities for original data collection for research that has potential relevance to the concerns of DHS. Three broad substantive areas have been identified as relevant and likely avenues for research:

1. Risk communication and its effects on disaster preparedness
2. Government and individual attributions of responsibility and perceived responsiveness; and
3. Inter-group threat and cooperation

Other areas of research with relevance to terrorism, disaster preparedness, or related public health and medical issues will also be considered.

Data collection for these projects will be paid for and conducted with the assistance of Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). As with other TESS applications, only a short, 5 page proposal is required.

TESS offers researchers opportunities to test their experimental ideas on large, diverse, randomly selected subject populations, or on specific subsamples of the population (based on geographic location, demographics, or other criteria). For more information on this special call or on TESS opportunities more generally, and for examples of TESS studies completed in the past, please visit our home page at www.ExperimentCentral.org.

PLEASE NOTE: For those with other areas of interest, TESS continues to fund data collection for survey-experimental work in all areas of the social sciences, and for graduate student and faculty investigators in all disciplines. These proposals are accepted on a rolling basis, and we will continue accepting new proposals as our funding allows.

4/30 meeting canceled

Because of the School's external review on Monday, 4/30, the HCRG meeting is canceled. Please check back for announcements on the next meeting's schedule.

Call for presentations 4/30

There is an opening for a presentation from any HCRG member at our next meeting April 30th. Please email hoffman.405@osu.edu or slater.59@osu.edu if you are interested!

Our next meeting, Monday 4/16

Our next HCRG meeting will be Monday, April 16 from 12 to 1 p.m. in 3116 Derby Hall. The first half-hour will be open discussion, and Dr. Robert Agunga will present from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Below is a description of his presentation.

Dr. Robert Agunga, Associate Professor in Agricultural Communication with a courtesy associate professor appointment in the School of Communication, a member of the Health Communication Group, and a 2007/8 Fulbright Scholar will present his research on "Communication and poverty reduction in Africa."

As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Agunga will spend a year at the University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture, in southern Africa where he will assist in developing a graduate curriculum in development communication and conduct field research on communication for poverty reduction toward a book on Communication for development in Africa that will focus on the role of communication in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Welcome to PhD student Parul Jain

Parul Jain, who received her masters degree from Wake Forest and who is transferring from Texas A&M, will be joining us at OSU this fall. Welcome to Parul!

HCRG Welcomes Dana Eisenberg to OSU

Dana Eisenberg just informed me that she will be joining our M.A. program in the fall. Dana is graduating from The College of New Jersey this Spring, and will be coming to OSU with a number of impressive credentials already under her belt (including multiple conference papers and even a top paper award at NCA). Please join me in Welcoming Dana to OSU!