Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science

The Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science (SEPCS) (formerly known as APA Division 3) is a society of psychologists in the principal area of general experimental psychology. The goals of this society are to promote, advance, and increase inclusion and exchange of ideas amongst the many subfields of experimental psychology (e.g., memory, animal cognition, etc.), both in basic and applied research. The society focuses on supporting research through advocacy, training and education, public policy issues, and engages in a wide variety of service work, such as leadership in the American Psychological Association's governance.[1]

The official website can be found here: http://www.apadivisions.org/division-3/index.aspx which contains more information and is regularly updated.

Membership

There are several memberships that one can have in SEPCS, including:

Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award[2]

The award will honor an individual who has made long-lasting and distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to basic research in experimental psychology. The awardee will receive a plaque and will be invited to present an address at the next APA convention.

Recent Recipients:

2016

Henry L. "Roddy" Roediger III, PhD

Duane M. Rumbaugh, PhD

2015

Larry Jacoby, PhD

2014

Keith Rayner, PhD

2013

Randall W. Engle, PhD

New Investigator Award[3]

Since 1995, Div. 3 has presented awards to honor outstanding new investigators. Each year the editors of each of the five sections of the Journal of Experimental Psychology are asked to nominate individuals based on the editors’ judgment of the most outstanding empirical papers published or accepted during that year that were authored by a new scholar (i.e., no more than three years post-PhD). The awards committee then makes recommendations to the Div. 3 executive board for final approval. Typically, but not always, there is one winner from each journal.

Publications

SEPCS publishes a bi-annual newsletter, The Experimental Psychology Bulletin,[4] which encompasses reports from our President-Elect, Member news, and recent awards, amongst others.

Our members publish a wide variety of research in the five flagship Journals of Experimental Psychology:

References

  1. ↑ "About the Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science". http://www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2016-10-27. External link in |website= (help)
  2. ↑ "Lifetime Achievement Award". http://www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2016-10-27. External link in |website= (help)
  3. ↑ "Division 3 New Investigator Awards". http://www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2016-10-27. External link in |website= (help)
  4. ↑ "The Experimental Psychology Bulletin". http://www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2016-10-27. External link in |website= (help)
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