Applied Psychology Program

Spring 2006 Brown Bag Series

The Applied Psychology Department and the Cognitive Engineering Research Institute (CERI) offer applied psychology-related brown bags each semester. All meetings are held on Thursdays from 12:30 to 1:30pm at the CERI conference room, located at 5810 S. Sossaman Road in Mesa.  For a map to this location please go to the CERI Web site.

If you are interested in presenting please contact the series coordinators: Leah Rowe (Leah.Rowe@asu.edu) or Jennifer Winner (jennifer.winner@asu.edu).

Date Speaker Topic
Thurs., Jan 26

Dr. Steve Shope, CERI

Coal Mining and Human Factors
Thurs., Feb 2 No Brown Bag No Brown Bag
Thurs., Feb 9 Kelley Stewart, ASU Applied Psychology; Mesa Fire Department,
Instructor-Trainer
Changing CPR to CCC: Did the American Heart Association consider Human Factors?
Thurs., Feb 16 William Howell, ASU Applied Psych The National Academies: Why They Matter
Thurs., Feb 23 John Delaney, Mesa Fire Department
An Introduction to the Incident Command System
Thurs., March 2 Peter Killeen, ASU Department of Psychology

Let's Reject Null Hypotheses and Accept this Alternative: A Decision Theory for Scientific Action

Thurs., March 9 Chad Tossell, Air Force Research Laboratory
The Air and Space Operations Center (AOC)
Thurs., March 16 Spring Break – No Brown Bag
Thurs., March 23

Justin Finnerty, M.Ed., ASU Career Services

Career Services for Applied Psychology Students
Thurs., March 30 Vaughn Becker, ASU Applied Psychology

How do chronic and/or situationally activated self-protective goals influence social signal detection?

Thurs., April 6 Robin Sobotta, Ph.D., Public Administration, Embry-Riddle;
and
Valerie Adams, Ph.D.
, History, Embry-Riddle
A New Tool in the Arsenal against Bioterror Attacks: Integration of Community Shielding into Arizona Emergency Planning Efforts
Thurs., April 13 Nia Amazeen, ASU Department of Psychology
Nonlinear Dynamics
in Motor Coordination
Thurs., April 20 John Black, Computer Science and Engineering, ASU

How humans describe faces, and how that information can be used to develop an intuitive method for retrieving face images

Thurs., April 27 Fighter Combat International TBA

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