Member Updates

What To Do When You’re Close to the Finish Line? Practical Strategies on Writing Up Your Dissertation

When you’re close to the finish line, finding the motivation and using time-saving strategies for writing up your dissertation become your top priority. This month, we interviewed Sonia Singh, a former PhD student who shared how stressful it can be when you’re nearing the end and was happy to suggest some insightful tips and practical strategies on navigating through the final stages of your dissertation.

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Free-Form Friday Recap: Roadmap to Graduate School Part III (Interviews & Beyond)

ICYMI: In the final part of the SPSP Student Committee’s series on applying to graduate school, SPSP student members discussed how to prepare for interviews as well as some options if students are not accepted this cycle.

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Eating Frogs and Other Time Management Tips

With an ever-growing list of priorities and deadlines, managing time effectively is a constant challenge. In our most recent #SPSPChat on Twitter, we asked three experts to share their top tools and insights for using time effectively.

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SPSP Webinar to Examine Research Methodologies and Non-WEIRD Samples

SPSP is hosting a webinar in which experts will discuss the barriers that traditional recruitment practices pose when trying to recruit non-WEIRD samples. They will also discuss ways to implement anti-racist research and effectively sample from diverse groups.

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SPSP Fall 2021 Call for Volunteers

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology has several new volunteer opportunities available. Whether you are looking to make connections, gain insights into society operations or expand your service to the field, now is the time to get involved.

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Looking Ahead: Advice for Finding a Summer Internship

Summer may feel far away, but for students hoping to land a summer internship in industry, the fall is a prime time to plan ahead.

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Comings and Goings: 2021 Member Career Moves

Check out the recent career moves of colleagues and fellow SPSP members.

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Early Career Corner: Tips and Tools for Productive Writing (Even When You Don’t Want To)

For many early career social/personality psychologists, writing is one of the most important activities for career progression. Here are some of the tips, tricks, and tools that we have used or that have come highly recommended from fellow ECs who know that the writing struggle is real.

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10 Ways to Conduct Cost-Effective Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

Maintaining an active research program at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions can be difficult, not only because we generally have more teaching and service obligations, but often because we have access to fewer resources. For PUI faculty coming out of grad school, the transition from being at research-intensive institution with more time and resources for research can be especially daunting. How can PUI faculty advance their research program, given these constraints?

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SPSP Community Catalyst Grantees Form Multiracial Scholar Network

After winning an SPSP Community Catalyst Grant in the summer of 2020, a group of researchers have collaborated to form SPSP's first Multiracial community group, the Network of Multiracial Scholars (NOMS).

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