SYMPOSIUM FOR INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN COGNITION
SIDIC 2023
“Individual differences have been an annoyance rather than a challenge to the experimenter. His goal is to control behavior, and variation within treatments is proof that he has not succeeded. Individual variation is cast into that outer darkness known as ‘error variance’…The correlational psychologist is in love with just those variables the experimenter left home to forget.”
~Cronbach, 1957, p. 674
“It is shortsighted to argue for one science to discover the general laws of mind or behavior and for a separate enterprise concerned with individual minds.”
~Underwood, 1975, p. 673
Starting in November 2023, the Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition (SIDIC) is a new affiliate meeting to the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. SIDIC will be dedicated to communicating research on individual differences in cognition, broadly construed, providing an outlet for the international community of cognitive psychologists to present and discuss their work on inter-individual variation in mental processes, phenomena, and abilities. The symposium will embrace a wide spectrum of topic areas, from perception and attention to language comprehension and reasoning, and it will broadly foster a culture of diversity and inclusion, featuring contributions from younger investigators as well as established scientists.
SIDIC will take place on Thursday, November 16, immediately preceding the Psychonomic Society annual meeting, in the same venue.