On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:24:15 -0700, Joan Warmbold wrote: >Just to add a footnote to Chris's post, the reality of APA being 'taken >over by the clinicians years ago' was a major reason for the formation of >APS 20+ years ago--the Association for Psychological Science.
Well, yes, I know this, I was a charter member of APS. Even had a short article in the APS Observer on my research on Age of English Acquisition and bilingualism in the January 1991 (by Eleanor Siegel "Spotlight on Research: Achievement Testing: Addressing the War of Words on Fairness: Bilingualism's Impact on Test Scores"; see: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/archive/index.cfm?issue=96 APS recently provided me a PDF/photocopy of the article; I assume they'll get around to making it and other Observer articles available some day). Anyway, I am a member of both APS and APA (Divisions 1-Gen Psy, 2-STP, 3-Exp Psych, 5 Stats and Measurement -- I had been a member of Div 52-International Psych but have dropped it but continue to receive their emails) and there are still non-clinicians there (though the overall membership numbers have recently started to dip). I know that APA is a clinically dominated organization but in the past I felt that there was some kind of researcher I could vote for. When I reviewed this year's candidates, I couldn't find any. I just checked to see who the current APA president is and she is Suzanne Bennett Johnson, a clinician from my alma mater Stony Brook who got her Ph.D. with Dan O'Leary. I had voted for her because of the SB connection and the knowledge that she was probably a decent clinical researcher given her training (SB even sent me an email announcing her win and hitting me up for a few bucks for the department). I guess I'll have to double-check the candidates again to see if there is anyone worth voting for. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] Chris Green has written: > APA was taken over by the clinicians years ago. Occasionally some > enthusiastic researcher outs his it her name on the ballot, but unless > they are stupendously famous, they never win. Many of the candidates now > don't even have university affiliations. I am still a member, mainly for > the tiny history division, but I don't much vote for pres anymore. > > Chris > ----- > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 > Canada > > [email protected] > > On Sep 19, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Michael Palij <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Okay, I finally got around to my email about voting for APA >> President-Elect and >> maybe I need a second cup of coffee (I've been trying to cut down) but >> is it >> really the case that there is no traditional academic researcher type on >> the >> ballot? And I don't mean clinical researchers either. And what's up >> with the >> guy who says that APA deleted his posts (?) on his facebook page (I >> don't >> do facebook or other types of social media so I don't really understand >> what >> this guy is saying). >> >> Anybody still an APA member? Anybody still vote for President-Elect? >> What is going on? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=20527 or send a blank email to leave-20527-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
