SPSP has launched a new way to connect with other SPSP members—Free-Form Fridays. Small virtual meeting rooms (generally max. 10 attendees) will be hosted every Friday. These rooms are available for members to use for a variety of activities: finding researchers with similar interests, finding support from members tackling similar career challenges, feedback and brainstorming sessions, and more.
Free-Form Fridays will be taking a break in February for our annual convention. March sessions will be posted and open for sign-ups mid-February.
Take advantage of this opportunity to connect with other members.
Have an idea to host a Free-Form Friday session? Apply to host a future session (submit a meeting name, host, description, and preferred dates/times). Free-Form Fridays will be taking a break in February. Submit your March session idea by February 8, 2021.
January Free-Form Schedule
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This year marks fifty years since Tajfel, Billig, Bundy, and Flament published their classic article that launched the minimal group paradigm. The minimal group paradigm challenged the conventional wisdom that discrimination requires conflict over resources or animosity between groups. This discussion will reflect on this classic paper and the research that it inspired.
Host: Kyle Ratner (kyle.ratner@psych.ucsb.edu), University of California, Santa Barbara
The legacy of Henri Tajfel’s classic paper is tarnished by revelations that he was a serial sexual harasser. This discussion will focus on the moral issues that arise for researchers inspired by Tajfel's minimal group work and theorizing but also deeply troubled by his behavior and harm to women.
Host: Kyle Ratner (kyle.ratner@psych.ucsb.edu), University of California, Santa Barbara
Jacy Young (jacy.young@questu.ca), Quest University Canada
We'll talk about what journals, editors, and reviewers do during the journal peer review process. This could be a useful for session for anyone interested in talking about how journals work, what it's like to be an editor or reviewer, how to navigate the process as an author, how we can improve journal peer review, or anything else related to journals and peer review!
Host: Simine Vazire (simine@gmail.com), University of Melbourne
The purpose of this session will be to discuss any and every question one might have about the the expectations for the new PSPR editor -- the nomination process, the focus and direction of the journal, the committee's timeline, etc.
Hosts: Edward Hirt (ehirt@indiana.edu), Indiana University and Laura King ( kingla@missouri.edu), University of Missouri
