We are pleased to invite submissions to the 4th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology.

Important links and information

Download the Call for Submissions here

Submit your proposal here: http://ISPST2012.Submit.sgizmo.com/s3/.

Additional information for submitters is here

Important dates in 2012

The 2012 conference is co-sponsored by the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University and by the Learning Research and Development Center at The University of Pittsburgh. We also have generous NSF support for student travel funds.

Scholars from different countries representing a broad range of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, communication, history, sociology, philosophy, education, and computer science will share cutting-edge research on scientific thinking and the advancement of science and technology.

Conference themes: formal science education, professional scientific practice, peer review, and psychological processes.  We invite submissions about informal science learning for a special symposium and tour of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Confirmed Keynote speakers include:

• Katy Börner, Victor H. Yngve Professor of Information Science at Indiana University at Bloomington (IUB), founder of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, and curator of Places and Spaces: Mapping Science (http://scimaps.org).
  Web link: http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/borner.html

• Clark Chinn, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Editor of Educational Psychologist
  Web link: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~cchinn/individualpages/individual_clarkchinn.html
  

• Iris Tabak, Senior Lecturer (tenured assistant professor) in the Education Department at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, current President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (www.isls.org), and an Associate Editor of The Journal of the Learning Sciences.
  Web link: http://www.bgu.ac.il/~itabak/
  

• Paul Thagard, Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science, Director of the Cognitive Science Program, and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo
  Web link: http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~pthagard/Biographies/pault.html
  

Download the Call for Submissions here

Please distribute this widely and post it where ever you can.

Thanks,

Corinne Zimmerman and Jordan Lippman
(co-chairs of the conference steering committee)

Conference steering committee members
Greg Feist
David Klahr
Chris Schunn