Psychology Day is a day-long event filled with scholarly and social activities. These will include presentations by an invited speaker and several students, food, and a student poster session.  

There will be two keynote speakers, both from the Yale University School of Medicine.  Dr. Robert Leeman will speak on Disinhibition and Treating Heavy Drinking in Young Adults.  Dr. Ty Schepis' talk is entitled Impulsivity, Risk-Taking and Adolescence.  Both speakers will be available for informal conversation with faculty and students during the luncheon.

Students who have never attended a professional conference may be unfamiliar with poster sessions. In these sessions, presenters prepare posters that briefly describe some research or other activity (literature review, internship) in which they were engaged. Posters contain text as well as pictures, graphs, or other visual material that help explain their findings. Posters are displayed in a large hall and visitors walk around to view them. The authors stand by their posters and discuss their work one-on-one with people who stop by and who may have questions and comments.

The poster submissions briefly describe the projects that were done as part of undergraduate or graduate research courses, a master's thesis, internship experiences, or literature review papers done as part of an independent study or class assignment. The author(s) of selected outstanding poster abstracts will be invited to make a brief oral presentation during the Psychology Day session. In addition, there will be several prizes for outstanding posters.

Students must be first author on all posters. Students should have the faculty member who supervised their project review and approve the abstracts (described below) before they are submitted.

Participating in events such as this helps prepare you professionally. Graduate schools and employers look favorably on such experience. It is exciting to discuss your work with others in the field of psychology. Your name, the title of your presentation, and a brief abstract of your work will appear in a brochure of the program.

Specific information on proposal submission and poster construction are contained in Poster Guidelines.

 Deadline for Submission: April 25, 2008