professional organizations and associations

This week I feel like I hit a bit of a road block. I finally decided revisit Dr. Santos’ CV and analyze her connections to professional organizations. All professions have related organizations and because academic fields are focused on exploring and sharing ideas they have more than commercial fields. Many of the publications that have published Dr. Santos’ work have related associations. Membership in organizations such as this includes such benefits as newsletters, job listings, and membership directories. Every organization that I looked into offers lower membership dues for students. Most of the organizations also host conferences. They also have websites, many of which have information and links open to all. These would be good places for someone new to the field to explore. The main problem would be choosing which organizations to join.

Of course the American Psychological Association is the largest and most well known of the organizations and they publish a laundry list of journals as well as books and videos. Their website is quite extensive with a separate area for students, lists of conferences, news feeds, career information and more. It has a lot of interesting information for even a layperson such as me.

It is interesting to note that the list of publications on which Dr. Santos has been an ad hoc reviewer is longer than the list in which she has been published and includes titles that seem to fall a little outside her main research focus. I’m sure that reading slightly outside her discipline has sparked ideas. As I mentioned last time there is a leaning to child and infant behavior, cognition and psychology.

Almost all of Dr. Santos’ speaking engagements have been at university sponsored lecture series and Colloquia. One association that is listed as hosting a meeting is the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. This organization is fairly inexpensive to join, hosts two list-serves, one for association news and another with info about other conferences and calls for papers from organizations that may be of interest to members. However it has no associated publications.

Publications that have published Dr. Santos’ work and their related associations:

• Animal Behaviour – Animal Behavior Society
• Developmental Psychology – American Psychological Association
• Journal of Comparative Psychology – American Psychological Association
• Cognitive Science – Cognitive Science Society

Publications for which Dr. Santos has been an ad hoc reviewer and their associations:

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences – Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Child Development – Society for Research in Child Development
• Child Development Perspectives – Society for Research in child Development
• Infancy – International Society on Infant Studies