Dear Colleagues,

 The 120th APA Convention will take place from August 2nd to 5th 2012 in sunny Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. I strongly encourage you all to attend the convention this year because Division 8 (Society of Personality and Social Psychology) has an exciting program planned.  At the convention, there will be addresses by many wonderful and engaging Social and Personality Psychologists including Trish Devine, Jenny Crocker, Paula Pietromonaco, Anthony Greenwald, Monica Biernat, Keith Campbell, Stacey Sinclair, Jim McNulty, Ed Diener, Jon Maner, James Shepperd, Michelle Fine, Sophie Trawalter, and Anita Kelly. In addition to these addresses, the program also includes symposia on topics including evolutionary approaches to person perception, the implications of gratitude for well-being, and identity and motivational factors involved in sexual prejudice.  We also have an invited symposium on perceptions and misperceptions of others featuring David Dunning, Joyce Ehrlinger, John Chambers, and Simine Vazire.  There will be three poster sessions, several social hour/networking events, and plenty of time to meet colleagues and catch up on what is new in social and personality psychology.  This year’s APA program is full of top-notch research that you will not want to miss!

If you are a Division 8 or SPSP member giving an address or a symposium talk for another division or for APA, email plant@psy.fsu.edu with your talk title and the date and time of the talk by July 1. I will be sending around a schedule including the time and place for all of the presentations of potential interest to SPSP members as soon as the schedule is finalized. 

Registration for the convention is now open at the convention website, which also contains a lot of information about the convention. http://www.apa.org/convention/  

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, Ashby Plant, Division 8 Program Chair, at plant@psy.fsu.edu.  On behalf of the SPSP Executive Board, we hope to see you in DC in August!

Best,

Ashby