*Update: The conference was quite a success.  Thank again to everyone.  The speakers kindly shared their slides and other resources.  Please go to the Forum section of the Training Committee pages on the new SPSP.org site to download them.

2012 SPSP GSC & Training Committee Preconference 

Expanding the Toolbox: Innovative Methods in Social and Personaltiy Psychology

Over the last several years social and personality psychology have experienced a burgeoning of techniques that have the potential to afford a deeper understanding of social processes and a broader sense of how individuals function within their social environments. Integration of such techniques into a researchers' toolbox may aid in overcoming methodological and practical challenges with data collection, facilitate reaching beyond the laboratory or simply provide new insight into an existing interest. However, constraints on what individual PhD programs offer mean that getting to know a new technique can often seem daunting or entirely out of reach.

The Graduate Student and Training Committees have partnered to bring together six talks providing practical introductions to some exciting and innovative methods that researchers may want to add to their toolbox, or refine their understanding of. Expert speakers will give concrete and accessible answers to the question "How do you do that?" by discussing advantages and disadvantages of the methods they are discussing, what to consider when using or evaluating them, and how to learn more.