Fun at APS

Just a quick note (more to come later as it’s late!) to say that we just had a terrific time at APS! Our student group had a lot of fun with their poster session on social network sites and loneliness (we wore hats and t-shirts from LinkedIn–and were hard to miss!) Wray Herbert of APS wrote a really nice blog post about our poster for the Daily Observer. If you’re interested in seeing our poster, Karen has a link to the pdf on her site.

Our Poster Was Hard to Miss: Ben Ainley, Karen Freberg, me, and Rebecca Adams

We enjoyed listening to Paul Ekman talk about the TV program “Lie to Me” and all of us took huge numbers of pages of notes on Walter Mischel’s Presidential Symposium on epigenetics. I finally had a chance to introduce myself in person to fellow blogger Jon Hanson of The Situationist, who spoke as part of the “Psychology as a Hub Science” symposium about interdisciplinary work. The students really appreciated the career advice offered by the participants and were particularly energized by an opportunity to speak with discussant John Cacioppo, who epitomizes collaboration.

We also had a lot of fun at the Cengage booth, talking with adopters and the marvelous Cengage people who make our textbooks happen. Then of course we gave out mountains of mousepads. If you see people with very colorful Discovering Biological Psychology mousepads, well, you’ll know where they came from.

A huge pile of work is waiting for me on my desk, but I wanted to dash off a quick note to thank everybody who made this conference such a huge success. See you in Boston in 2010!