The program committee is currently in discussion to set up a program which covers a broad range of topics.
The program will include a range of presentation formats, including:
If you are interested to make an active contribution to the program in the form of a symposium presentation, you are encouraged to get in contact with the respective program chairs and send an abstract of max. 300 words with your suggested talk. Please contact those program chair(s) that represent the topic that fits best to your suggested talk.
The deadline for abstract submission is May 31, 2024.
Symposium topics with program chairs (contact persons)
Memory and validity assessment
Antonietta Curci (antonietta.curci@uniba.it)
Attention and validity assessment
Anselm Fuermaier (a.b.m.fuermaier@rug.nl)
Andrea Plohmann (andrea.plohmann@neuropsych.ch)
Culture and validity assessment
Luciano Giromini (luciano.giromini@unito.it)
Esteban Puente Lopez (epuentel@nebrija.es)
Children and adolescents and validity assessment
Claudia Pignolo (claudia.pignolo@unito.it)
Anselm Fuermaier (a.b.m.fuermaier@rug.nl)
Validity assessment and biases: Concealment, practitioners’ biases, and other issues
Irena Boskovic (boskovic@essb.eur.nl)
Harald Merckelbach (h.merckelbach@maastrichtuniversity.nl)
Open topic (suggestions are welcome)
Brechje Dandachi-FitzGerald (b.fitzgerald@maastrichtuniversity.nl)
We are honored that Prof. Gerald Young confirmed his attendance at our conference.
Gerald Young is a Full Professor in Psychology at Glendon College, York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the American Psychological Association (APA). He has received awards from the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), including for lifetime achievement. Young is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychological Injury and Law, which he founded, and his work in that area has led to invited speaker addresses at scientific conferences. His most recent books include:
Revising the APA Ethics Code (Springer, 2017) and Causality and neo-stages in development: Toward unifying psychology (Springer, 2022). His next book is co-edited and on Handbook of Psychological Injury and Law (Springer Nature, in preparation). He has appeared as an expert witness for a case involving the Supreme Court of Canada. His practice covers rehabilitation and couples/ families.