36th Annual Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Psychology Conference is Saturday, April 26
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| Dr. Nora S. Newcombe |
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will host the 36th annual Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Psychology Conference on Saturday, April 26.
The all-day event will be held in the college’s Research and Economic Development Center.
The first Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Psychology Conference was held in 1972, when student members of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Psychological Association presented research findings at Alliance College. Last year, undergraduate students from nine colleges and universities gave 40 oral and poster presentations on topics ranging from “Perceptions of Aggressive Driving by Male and Female Drivers” to “The Effects of Background Music on Studying.”
The keynote speaker for this year’s conference will be Nora S. Newcombe, professor and James H. Glackin Fellow at Temple University, whose research focuses on spatial development and the development of episodic memory. Newcombe is former editor of the American Psychological Association publications Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and Psychological Bulletin, and currently is principal investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, a joint project of Temple, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and the Chicago public school system. In her keynote talk, Newcombe will address the uses and abuses of evolutionary psychology to explain gender differences.
Registration for the Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Psychology Conference is open to the public; for details click here or phone Victoria Kazmerski, Penn State Behrend associate professor of psychology at 814-898-6246.