Click on the following link for the APA Division 46: Society of Media Psychology and Technology program for APA 2019, in Chicago, over August 8-11, 2019: https://div46amplifier.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/division-46-2019-chicago-convention-program.pdf
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm/ 2019 Volume 8 (1) January Editor’s introduction. Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure: A parent report measure of screen media “addiction” in children. Nighttime notifications and compulsivity illuminate the link between emerging adults’ cellphone use and sleep-related problems. “Let me take another selfie”: Further examination of the relation between narcissism, self-perception,…
Helen Friedman, PhD is the new president of the St. Louis Psychological Association. She also serves as media chair. Dr. Friedman continues to make appearances on television, radio, and in print. A recent example is https://groknation.com/relating/tips-for-raising-mentally-healthy-and-resilient-kids/ In addition to her private practice, she is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Community and Family…
Chrysalis L. Wright University of Central Florida Chrysalis.Wright@ucf.edu Francesca Dillman Carpentier University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill francesca@unc.edu Lesley-Ann Ey University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Lesley-Anne.Ey@unisa.edu.au Cougar Hall Brigham Young University Cougar_hall@byu.edu Megan Hopper Illinois State University khopper@ilstu.edu Wayne Warburton Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Wayne.warburton@wq.edu.au The 2018 report of the Division 46 Task…
Stephanie Miodus, MA Temple University stephaniemiodus@gmail.com & Frank Farley, PhD Temple University frank.farley@temple.edu A Review of Parkland: Inside Building 12; Director: Charlie Minn Parkland: Inside Building 12 is a documentary about the devastating school shooting on February 14, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. As the movie title suggests, the shooting…
Frank Farley, PhD Temple University frank.farley@temple.edu & Stephanie Miodus, MA Temple University stephaniemiodus@gmail.com A Review of We Are Columbine, Director: Laura Farber This profound film was screened by the first author. at the Newtown Theatre, Newtown, PA, apparently the oldest continuously operating movie house in America which showed its first film in 1906. It is…
Mary Gregerson, PhD Heartlandia Psychology, Leavenworth, KS mary.gregerson@aol.com & Dowon Choi, MA Florida State University dowonchoe@gmail.com Reviews of Crazy Rich Asians, Director: John M. Chu and A Simple Favor, Director: Paul Feig Dear Henry, “Everybody wants to be us,” ad libs actress Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada. Henry, this classic…
Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D., ABPP, CST Independent Practice Wilmington, Delaware steve@dreichel.com For many or most people, their first introduction to hypnosis will be through a movie or television show. Based on films from the 1950s and 1960s, I grew up thinking that hypnosis always involved inducing a somnambulant trance which can be induced unknowingly…
Gayle S. Stever, PhD Empire State College/SUNY, Rochester, NY gayle.stever@esc.edu In most writings about celebrity, the word is used as a noun. A person is a celebrity. But what if we thought of celebrity, not as a noun, but rather as a characteristic of an individual? We could then talk about celebrity in the same…
Bernard Luskin, EdD, LMFT Wright Graduate University, Chicago, IL Bernie@LuskinInternational.com When synesthesia, semiotics and semantics converge, they form a 3S model that is central in brain-based learning. Synesthesia is the sensory element in the 3S model for learning, media and psychology. Semiotics brings the understanding and meaning of symbols. Semantics adds the cross-model infusion in…
Christopher J. Ferguson, PhD Stetson University, DeLand, FL cjfergus@stetson.edu The issue of “trial by media” has come under some recent debate following explosive documentaries which alleged that celebrities Michael Jackson and R. Kelly committed heinous sex crimes against multiple victims. In full transparency, I haven’t seen either documentary, so I won’t comment on them directly.…
Ajay Singh, MSc, PG Diploma in Cyber Law & Cyber Forensics Former CEO of a Fintech Company, Mumbai, India ajay_singh@outlook.com Organizations the world over have leveraged information technology and the internet to meet their business objectives and offer better, faster services to their customers and constituents. Increasing dependence on information systems has exposed them to…
Alicia C. Aebersold APA Chief Communications Officer Washington, DC aebersold@apa.org At its heart, successful communication is ensuring that great ideas and inspiring messages reach the right people, in the right way, at the right time and spur people into action. Determining that strategy is first and foremost for our communications team at the American Psychological…
Kim-Phuong L. Vu, PhD California State University Long Beach Kim.Vu@csulb.edu Robert W. Proctor, PhD Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana rproctor@purdue.edu Division 21: Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology promotes research on human performance and applies psychological principles to the design of technology, consumer products, and complex systems for effective human-machine interactions. Members of Division 21 seek…
Christopher J. Ferguson, PhD cjfergus@stetson.edu In February, the APA Council of Representatives met to discuss some of the issues facing the APA at the moment. Here are some of the things discussed. First, the lawsuits regarding the Hoffman Report lumber on for the moment. There is not much to report that is new. A major…
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