APA+2011

= Ms. Maria Vita attended the AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL CONFERENCE in 2011 This was a great opportunity to meet with colleagues in psychology and see the newest research. Ms. Vita was also able to meet some very important figures in psychology!=

DAY 1 =MEETING "DR. Z" - Dr. PHILIP ZIMBARDO of Stanford University, former APA Pres= August 2011 was the 40th anniversary of the Stanford Prison Experiment Zimbardo wrote Lucifer Effect and Time Paradox and runs NEW INITIATIVE - Heroic Imagination Project

Lesson 1- commenting on bystander effect, conformity, fundamental attribution error Lesson 2 -learning to question unjust authority Lesson 3 -social agents of change



DAY 2 =STANFORD STUDY - 40 years later= LEFT-RIGHT: Scott Plous (Maintains website); Christina Maslach (whistle-blower!); Dr. Z (superintendent), and Craig Haney (supevisor)

Ms. Vita and Christina Maslach of Berkely

=Ms. Vita also got to meet Debbie Joffe-Ellis, the wife of Albert Ellis, who sadly passed away in 2007 at the age of 93=



There are so many places to learn about REBT by Ellis Friends Network - love this quotation page REBT More REBT = = =Dr. Aaron Beck, Father of COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY and 90 years old July 18, 2011= University of Penn, Psychiatry

Dr. Judith Beck (Aaron's daughter), Dr. Aaron Beck, and Dr. Frank Farley (Temple, former APA Pres) Beck Institute web

Dr. Farley's web heronow

Day 3 =Dr. Sam Gosling (Univ of Texas @ Austin), author of //Snoop//= Ms. Vita is pictured with Dr. Gosling and Penn Manor Alumnus, Kelsey Heslin, 2009



=Dr. Martin "Marty" Seligman, University of Penn, former APA Pres, authentichappiness.org= Author of Flourish



=Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Gottman, the Gottman Institute=