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APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE

2006 VIRTUAL SUMMER INSTITUTE IN POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

at Stanford University

July 10 - 21, 2006

APPLY TODAY BY CLICKING HERE
<http://acomptesterg4.stanford.edu/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=1>

Stanford University is very pleased to announce that it will host the
first Virtual Summer Institute in Political Psychology.  Continuing the
SIPP tradition created by Margaret Hermann at Ohio State University in
1991, Virtual SIPP will provide participants with an opportunity to
receive specialized training in political psychology by world-renowned
faculty over the course of the two-week Institute.  VSIPP 2006 is
sponsored by Stanford's Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
(IRiSS).

This year, the Summer Institute will offer 2 weeks of online training in
political psychology to up to 60 participants including graduate
students, faculty, professionals, and advanced undergraduates.  The
VSIPP 2006 training will include streaming audio lectures drawn from a
unique world class collection of faculty lecturers and accompanying
slideshow materials, an extensive reading list and materials to
accompany the lectures, online discussion groups, and personal space
online to post your own research interests, ideas and projects and to
network with fellow participants.

Contingent on participant interest, Stanford University will host an
informal two-day conference at the end of Virtual SIPP (July 22-24)
where participants will continue their conversations with fellow
participants and faculty, connecting with each other at Stanford.  See
the VSIPP WEBSITE <http://www.stanford.edu/group/sipp> for more details
about the Institute and the closing conference.

Political psychology is an exciting and thriving subdisciplinary
specialty that explores the origins of political behavior and the causes
of political events, with a special focus on the psychological
mechanisms at work.  The principal contributors to the field include
political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, and
other researchers who cross bridges between disciplines in efforts to
enrich their scholarship.

A wide range of topics will be explored, including terrorism, the causes
and dynamics of war, the determinants of election outcomes, public
perceptions of the legitimacy of their governments, the influence of the
news media on political affairs, processes of individual and collective
decision-making by political elites, bargaining and negotiation between
and within nations, the impact of leaders' personalities on their
actions, and much more.

Stanford University is the home of  a large group of faculty experts
studying political psychology, including Larry Bobo (public opinion,
racial attitudes), Jon Krosnick (survey design, public opinion, voting
behavior), Lee Ross (conflict and dispute resolution), Hazel Markus
(cultural influences on political attitudes), Albert Bandura (moral
disengagement), Phil Zimbardo (terrorism), Douglas McAdam (social
movements and protest), Deborah Gruenfeld (political organizations,
bargaining and negotiation), Claude Steele (stereotypes and the
psychology of diversity), Rod Kramer (collective identity, leadership),
Michael Tomz (international relations) and others as well.

Applications from interested participants will be accepted beginning on
March 6 and are due by April 15, 2006.  All admissions decisions will be
finalized by May 1, 2006 and participants will be notified by this date.

FOR MORE INFORMATION about the 2006 Summer Institute, please visit the
VSIPP WEBSITE <http://www.stanford.edu/group/sipp> .

TO APPLY, please complete this APPLICATION
<http://acomptesterg4.stanford.edu/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=1>.

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