Announcement
Patricia Miller (Division 7 President-Elect) and Christopher Hertzog (Division 20 President) are co-organizing an effort to facilitate and encourage dialogue between developmental psychologists studying child development and developmental psychologists studying adult development and aging. The goal is to foster communication and shared perspectives between persons working on similar psychological constructs and processes at different parts of the human life-span. Hopefully these dialogues will show that knowing about current research in the "other" part of the life cycle informs, broadens, and enriches one's own perspective. To further that end, we are encouraging psychologists to identify peers researching the same topic in different parts of the life-span and to initiate a conversation about common research interests, similarities and differences in how constructs are conceptualized and measured, commonalities and divergences in developmental issues and approaches, etc. The effort is sponsored in part by a grant from APA's Committee on Division/APA Relations (CODAPAR). Small travel awards are available to help promote contact and dialogue between scientists. The immediate vehicle would be a series of jointly authored articles to be published in the newsletters of both divisions. Drs. Hertzog and Miller will produce the first joint newsletter article, to appear later this year. People interested in being a contributor in subsequent issues can contact either Hertzog <mailto:christopher.hertzog@psych.gatech.edu> or Miller <phmiller@uga.edu> for further information.
