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Section Annual Report for Social Psychology

This annual report covers the period of section activity from September 2017 to August 2018 and a fiscal year from January 2018 to December 2018. The report is typically completed by the immediate past chair of each section as it covers the period this person served as chair. However, it is often completed in consultation with other officers and it may be submitted by anyone on the section council. Sections that do not file an Annual Report will have their budget allocation withheld until a complete report is received. Please submit the report by November 15. Section Governance Provide details of your section’s governance activity during the period between September 2017 and August 2018.

Business Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and approved meeting minutes from the section business meeting which include a count of members present and summary of decisions made at this meeting. SEE ATTACHED: 1) Minutes; and 2) attendance record Council Meeting Copy and paste below (or attach separately) the agenda and approved meeting minutes of all Council Meetings conducted between August 2017 and September 2018. Minutes must include a list of council members present and a summary of decisions made. Minutes are not a transcript of proceedings but a listing of what discussions took place and official actions taken. SEE ATTACHED

The Previous Year Describe section activities during the period between September 2017 and August 2018.

• Membership recruitment and retention – What efforts did the section make to retain members and reach out to new members? What were the results of the efforts?

As in prior years, our Membership Committee was active in recruiting and retaining members. Their strategy included membership requests in our newsletters and section emails. They also contacted persons who had let their section membership lapse over the prior year. And, they contacted persons presenting in our section’s ASA sessions who were not members, encouraging them to join the section. All students contacted through these means were offered sponsored memberships, and some took us up on that offer. The Membership Committee also worked with the Graduate Student Advisory Committee to generate names of additional graduate students wanting sponsored memberships. These efforts were successful as our section count was 608 on September 30, 2018 (a size similar to previous years), allowing us to retain our customary five sessions at the ASA meeting.

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• Communications – How does the section communicate with its members? Did it begin using any

new technologies or strategies? If so, were they effective? Include links to the section website, newsletters, and any other electronic media used.

As section Chair, I sent announcements to the section every 2-3 weeks via our section list-serv. These announcements were compiled and organized by our webmaster and newsletter editor, Jennifer McLeer. We also created two section newsletters which were distributed to section members (in December and August). Jennifer McLeer compiled the December newsletter and collaborated with her successors -- Jon Overton and Nicholas Heiserman – on the August newsletter. Our section website also serves as an important repository of information and as a mechanism of communication. It contains current section information (committee lineups and responsibilities, award calls, section bylaws) and archives past newsletters, annual reports, and past award winners. Our section also maintains a Facebook page that is used for communicating information relevant to section members.

• Mentoring – What, if any, mentoring opportunities does the section offer to students, early career faculty, nonfaculty, etc.?

Our Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) continued our section’s successful graduate student mentoring program for the third consecutive year. This year, the committee matched 11 faculty mentors with 24 graduate student mentees. In addition, the GSAC created a new virtual work group program aimed at providing section members with teams of colleagues, unconstrained by geographic location. Two groups were created – one for faculty (6 members) and one for graduate students (4 members). Virtual rooms were created for each group, allowing for activities such as video chats, file sharing, and research presentations. Our section’s Junior Faculty Mentorship Committee also continued its practice of fielding a survey to identify faculty mentees and mentors. The committee had another successful year, matching 13 mentees with 13 mentors.

• Programming – Provide an overview of the section’s programming at the annual meeting, scholarly/ professional development activities outside of the annual meeting, development of substantive resources, partnerships with other sections or groups, etc.

Our five sessions at the ASA meeting in August were all well-attended. Three of these were traditional open paper sessions, organized by a team from Kent State University (Susan Fisk, Carla Goar, Kristin Marcussen, and Richard Serpe). As is customary, a fourth session was reserved for the roundtables, which we shared with the Emotions Section again this year (organized by Lynn Chin and Natalia Ruiz-Junco). Our fifth session was reserved for the Cooley-Mead Address and the business meeting, as is our section’s tradition. In addition, we held an off-site section reception, co-hosted (and co-sponsored) by the Emotions Section. This event was well-attended, as was the Graduate Student Mixer organized by the GSAC. Finally, our section organized the ASA’s only job market workshop at this year’s annual meeting. The workshop involved five panelists (Karen Hegtvedt, Bianca Manago, Steve Hitlin, Lisa Walker,

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and Ashley Reichelmann) sharing their thoughts and insights about navigating the sociology job market.

Plans for the Coming Year Describe section plans for the period between September 2018 and August 2019. These plans should align with the 2018 budget and proposed 2019 budget below.

• Membership recruitment and retention – What efforts will the section make to retain members and reach out to new members? What are the goals of the efforts? The current chair has assembled a membership committee and asked them to make recruitment of new members and getting previous members back into the section key priorities. That committee (chaired by Mamadi Corra) has already begun using the ASA lists of former members to generate personalized emails to former members. Doing so now (when many ASA members are renewing their dues) will hopefully lead to more success. The goals of this and subsequent efforts by the membership committee is to create a section membership that is comfortably enough over 600 members that the section does not need to scramble to add 10 to 12 members at the final hour to gain an additional section session.

• Communications – How does the section plan to communicate with its members? Does the section plan on using any new technologies or strategies? If so, how? We plan to continue to send bimonthly updates (news about conferences, jobs, etc.) to members. We also have a section newsletter that is issued twice each year and it maintains a section website and a Facebook page.

• Mentoring – What efforts will the section make to mentor students, early career faculty, nonfaculty, etc.? The section has both a graduate student mentor program and a junior faculty mentor program. Both of these programs have been successful and will be continued.

• Programming – Provide an overview of the section’s upcoming plans for programming at the annual meeting, scholarly/ professional development activities outside of the annual meeting, development of substantive resources, partnerships with other sections or groups, etc. The section’s program at the 2019 ASA will include two open sessions, one session addressing social psychological mechanisms underlying discrimination and one session that complements the ASA theme on social psychological approaches to social justice. There will also be one roundtable session (cosponsored with the Emotions section). In addition to partnering with the Emotions section for our section roundtables, we will partner with Emotions and the Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity section for our reception. These sections have overlapping members but also enough non-overlapping members to allow for the potential for the section to grow.

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2018 Finances Provide a narrative on how the 2018 budget matched with actual expenses and income from 2018. Please account for any substantive differences.

There was minimal difference between budgeted and actual 2018 expenditures. The total budgeted amount was $2,955, while the section spent $2,854. There were savings from budgeted amounts for the section reception ($62), Council breakfast ($90), and award plaques ($10), while costs associated with website maintenance and the grad student mixer were slightly higher than budgeted. Income was estimated to be $2,942, while actual income was $2,850. Overall, the section spent $4 more than it received in income, carrying over $7,708 into 2019.

Budget for 2019 Creating a budget will help the section plan its activities for the year. Your 2019 budget should reflect the narrative in the “Plans for the Coming Year” section. The following table will help you organize and calculate a budget. Expected 2019 Expenditures

Expense Category Budgeted Amount Details (use the cells in this column to provide information on each expense)

Annual Meeting Reception $2000 Off-site reception

Other Meeting Expenses $ 550 Student mixer ($250), Council breakfast/lunch ($300)

Awards

Student Awards $ 500 Grad Student paper award Award Plaques $ 175 Cooley-Mead; Outstanding Contribution

Other $ 0 n/a

Communications Website $ 150 Fees for maintenance

Newsletter $ 0 n/a Other $ 0 n/a

Miscellaneous

Membership $ 0 n/a Other $ 0 na

Total 2019 Budgeted Expenditures

$ 2975 Sum estimated expenses

Estimated 2019 Income

Income Category Estimated Amount Details

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Section Allocation – Base $ 1000 ASA Office will provide figure mid-October. See note 1 on how this figure is calculated.

Section Allocation – Per Member $ 1216 ASA Office will provide figure mid-October. See note 2 on how this figure is calculated.

Premium Dues $ 334 ASA Office will provide an estimated figure. See note 3 on how this figure is calculated.

Contributions Misc

Total 2019 Estimated Income Sum estimated income

Budget Summary

Estimated Remaining Balance at end of December 2018 $ 7708

Accounting for all estimated costs for the remainder of the year, estimate the remaining balance.

Total 2019 Estimated Income +$ 2550 Fill in from the Estimated Income table above

Total 2019 Budgeted Expenditures - $ 2975 Fill in from the Budgeted Expenditures table

above

Total = $ 7283 To calculate net amount, sum Lines 1 and 2, then subtract Line 3.

Notes The following explains how income is calculated. By October 20, the ASA Office will provide the following information, so sections do not have to calculate estimates themselves.

1 Section Allocation – Base Based off of this year’s final membership count as of September 30, sections receive a base allocation as follows:

• Sections with 300 or more members receive a base allocation of $1,000 • Sections with fewer than 300 members and more than 200 members receive: [# of section members - 100]

x $5 • Sections with fewer than 199 members receive a base allocation of $500

2 Section Allocation – Per Member Based off of this year’s final membership count as of September 30, sections receive two dollars for each member. 3 Premium Dues The base rate is $10 for regular members, $5 for students and $10 for associate, low income, and high school teacher members. Any dues raised by the sections in excess of the base rate go directly to the section throughout the year based on actual membership numbers. Subscription Fees for Section Journals are not added here.

To see current and historical membership counts, please visit www.asanet.org/SectionMembership. Please note that membership year ends on September 30. Miscellaneous Is there any additional information about the section or the area of study you would like to share with the Committee on Sections? Is there any feedback you would like to provide to the Committee on Sections?

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2018 Section on Social Psychology

Monday, August 13, 2018

Philadelphia, PA

Business Meeting Minutes

Chair Matthew Hunt called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m., following the Cooley-Mead

address.

Committee Reports and Award Presentations (as applicable)

*see Council Meeting Minutes for summaries of committee report*

1. Recent Contribution Award. Committee chair, Dina Okamoto, delivered the

committee report and presented the awards. First place was presented to Mario Small

for Someone to Talk to. Honorable Mention was given to Corey Fields for Black

Elephants in the Room.

2. Graduate Student Paper Award. Committee chair, Corey Fields, delivered the

committee report and presented the awards. First place was presented to Emily Carian

for “The Inversive Sexism Scale: Endorsement of the Belief that Women are

Privileged and Other Contemporary Sexist Attitudes.” Honorable Mention was

awarded to Jessica Pfaffendorf for “Wayward Elites: Social Restoration through

Stigma Allure in a Therapeutic Boarding School.”

3. Grad Student Investigator Award. Matt Hunt delivered the committee report on behalf

of Ellen Granberg, committee chair.

4. Nominating Committee. Matt Hunt delivered the committee report on behalf of David

Melamed, committee chair.

5. Membership Committee. Matt Hunt delivered the committee report on behalf of

Sarah Harkness, committee chair.

6. Endowment Development Committee. Committee chair Gretchen Peterson delivered

the committee report.

7. Professional and External Affairs Committee. Matt Hunt delivered the committee

report on behalf of Kathryn Lively, committee chair.

8. Grad Student Advisory Committee. Matt Hunt delivered the committee report on

behalf of Chelsea Kelley, committee chair.

9. Junior Faculty Membership Committee. Committee chair Lisa Walker delivered the

committee report.

10. Public Engagement Liaison. Karen Hegtvedt (Section on Social Psychology Public

Engagement Liaison) delivered report.

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Budget Report – Delivered by Jody Clay-Warner (secretary/treasurer)

All section expenses for the year are now recorded, as reflected in the spreadsheet below. The

section took in $31.52 more in income than it spent and ended the year with $7,626.52 in total

assets.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SECTION BUDGET ACTUALS, 2018

INCOME Year to Date

Dues $ 515.00

Royalties/Other $ 50.00

Section Allocation $ 2,271.00

Total Income $ 2,836.00

EXPENSES

Awards $ 500.00

Council Breakfast $ 209.84

Plaques/Certificates $ 155.12

Reception $ 1,538.16

Website $ 128.00

Grad Student Mixer $ 273.36

Total Expenses $ 2,804.48

ASSETS

Beginning Balance $ 7,595.00

Increase (Decrease) $ 31.52

Total Assets $ 7,626.52

Social Psychology Quarterly.

Report was delivered by co-editors Matthew Brashears and Brent Simpson. (see Council

Meeting minutes for summary of report)

New Business

1. Section Name. Matt Hunt reported to the Section about a discrepancy in the way in which

the Section’s name is recorded in ASA records and the way in which it appeared in the

header of the Section By-Laws on the Section’s website beginning in 2016. The ASA

Section Office contacted Matt about this discrepancy. ASA records indicate that the name

of the Section is “Section on Social Psychology,” while the header is titled “Section for

Social Psychology.” Matt reported that there was no evidence of an attempt to change the

name of the section and so Council believes this was simply a typographical error.

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Council voted unanimously in their meeting yesterday to ask ASA to change the header to

“Section on Social Psychology.”

2. SOAR Program. Matt relayed the information discussed by Council in their meeting

yesterday regarding the SocARXiv Sociology Open Award Recognition (SOAR)

program. He reported that Council decided not to participate this year. Council will revisit

this issue next year when more information is available.

Discussion: Matt Hunt opened floor for comments/suggestions from the membership. There was

some discussion of potential cost-saving measures, including reducing costs associated with

Council breakfast/lunch by asking participants to forgo coffee/soft drinks.

Closing

Matt Hunt thanked members of Council, particularly those whose service in ending including

past-chair Amy Kroska. He then turned the section gavel over the chair-elect Brent Simpson,

who now assumes the position of Section Chair.

Brent thanked the membership for electing him Chair and thanked Matt for all of his work. Brent

asked members to let him know if they have any suggestions for the Section and also if they are

willing to volunteer for a committee. He closed the meeting by reminding members of the need

to get to 600 members by September 30 in order to retain the same number of paper session in

2019 as we had at these meetings.

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2018 Social Psychology Council Meeting Minutes

(Prepared by Jody Clay-Warner, Secretary/Treasurer)

Date/Time: Sunday, August 12; 7:15a.m.

Place: Bank and Bourbon Restaurant; 1200 Market Street; Philadelphia, PA 19107

In Attendance

Brent Simpson, Matt Brashears, Jody Clay-Warner, Matthew Hunt, Sarah Harkness, Amy

Kroska, Celeste Campos-Castille, Bianca Manago, D’Lane Compton

Committee Reports (delivered by Matt Hunt, on behalf of Committee Chairs)

Cooley-Mead Award (chair, Jeremy Freese)

The committee received five new nominations this year and also carried over for

consideration several nominees from the previous year. The committee selected Doug

Maynard as this year’s recipient.

Outstanding Recent Contribution (chair, Dina Okamoto)

The committee received seven nominations and selected a winner and an honorable

mention because the rankings for #1 and #2 were consistently close. The winner is

Someone to Talk to (Mario Small). Honorable mention goes to Black Elephants in the

Room (Corey Fields).

Graduate Student Paper Award (chair, Corey Fields)

The committee received 19 submissions, with one submission being ruled ineligible

because the majority of authors were not graduate students. The winner paper was “The

Inversive Sexism Scale: Endorsements of the Belief that Women are Privileged and Other

Contemporary Sexist Attitudes,” by Emily Carian. Honorable mention was given to

Jessica Pfaffendorf for “Wayward Elites: Social Restoration through Stigma Allure in a

Therapeutic Boarding School.’

Graduate Investigator Award (chair, Ellen Granberg)

There were four applications for the Graduate Student Investigator Award. However, the

committee decided that none were sufficiently meritorious, so the award was not given

this year.

Nominations Committee (chair, David Melamed)

This year, there were four open positions: chair-elect, two council seats, and the student

member of council. The committee received 12 nominations for chair, 15 for council, and

10 for student member of council. The following members were elected: Richard Serpe

(chair-elect), Gretchen Peterson and Jenny Davis (council), and Maria Ramon (student

member.)

Membership Committee (chair, Sarah Harkness)

The committee attempted to grow the section membership by including membership

requests in e-mails and newsletters and through direct contact with members of related

sections who are not members of the Social Psychology section. They also utilized the

same system as the previous year to recruit student members and sponsors for those

members. Membership remains lower in the past years. Council members noted that they

have observed this trend in other sections to which they belong.

Endowment Committee (chair, Gretchen Peterson)

There was no committee activity this year. The committee chair reported that she

intended to reach out to committee members prior these meetings to organize a new

call for donations to the endowment fund.

Professional and External Affairs Committee (chair, Kathryn Lively)

There was no committee activity this year.

Discussion: Past-chair Amy Kroska asked whether Council members thought that having

this committee develop a column on a professional issue, as was done previously, would

be a good idea. Amy noted that this was the source of the column written by Lisa Troyer

during Amy’s term as Section Chair. Chair-elect Brent Simpson thought that this was a

good idea and said has been in touch with Deborah Carr who is interested in writing a

similar column for NIH. Matt Hunt noted that the bylaws stipulate that the chair of this

committee must have been a member of the committee the previous year. Council should

keep this in mind for this year’s committee.

Graduate Student Advisory Committee (chair, Chelsea Kelly)

The committee focused on four items this year: Mentor program, virtual workgroup

program, graduate student mixer, and the job market workshop. There was a lower

faculty response for the Mentor Program this year, (11 faculty; 24 graduate students). As

a result, mentors were paired with two mentees. The section needs to consider ways to

increase faculty involvement. The Virtual Workgroup Program was new this year. The

goal is to help section members have groups of colleagues with whom they could

regularly meet across virtual space. The committee sent interest surveys (10 responses)

and created two groups (one for faculty – 6 members; one for graduate students – 4

members) for whom virtual rooms were created. Committee suggested creating signup

spaces on the section website for this service. The Graduate Student Mixer will take place

on Monday at 6:30 at Field House Philly. This is the first time that this committee has

hosted a Job Market Seminar and it is the only one taking place at the ASA meetings this

year. It will be held on Sunday, Aug.12th at 8:30 am. Panelists include Karen Hegtvedt,

Bianca Manago, Steve Hitlin, Lisa Walker, and Ashlely Reichelmann.

Junior Faculty Mentorship Committee (chair, Lisa Walker)

This committee used a Qualtrics survey to solicit interest from mentors (senior faculty)

and mentees (junior faculty). A link to the survey was sent to the section listserv. There

was a 1-1 match between number of potential mentors and mentees, with 13 senior and

13 junior faculty responding. Mentors and mentees were paired by area of interest and

were asked to arrange meetings and to report back to the committee regarding the

effectiveness of this program. The committee also intends to follow up with the mentor-

mentee pair.

Discussion: Amy Kroska and Bianca Manago stated that they thought the survey the

committee put together was very helpful in matching mentors with mentees.

Public Engagement Liason

This is a newly created position. Each section has been asked to appoint a Public

Engagement Liason. This is a 2-year position. Karen Hegtvedt served in this role for the

section this year and will do so again next year. The person in this position will assist

ASA in identifying topical experts who can respond to media inquiries, help disseminate

work done by the ASA communications staff, and suggest ways to be proactive in

generating attention to work by sociologists, such as identifying news reports that might

draw interest.

Budget Report

Jody Clay-Warner (Secretary/Treasurer) delivered the budget report. The section budget remains

healthy. The section took in $2,944 this year, and it budgeted $2,955 in expenses. At the time of

the Council Meeting, all annual expenses were known except for the cost of the meal associated

with the Council Meeting and the graduate student mixer (to take place later in the ASA

meetings). Assuming that these two events come in within budget, the section will have spent

$2,871 this year, which is $84 less than budgeted and $73 less than income. The spreadsheet

below reflects expenses incurred by the time of the Council meeting:

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SECTION BUDGET ACTUALS, as of Council meeting 2018

INCOME Year to Date

Dues $ 515.00

Royalties/Other $ 50.00

Section Allocation $ 2,271.00

Total Income $ 2,836.00

EXPENSES

Awards $ 500.00

Council Breakfast (outstanding)

Plaques/Certificates $ 155.12

Reception $ 1,538.16

Website $ 128.00

Grad Student Mixer (outstanding)

Total Expenses $ 2,321.28

ASSETS

Beginning Balance $ 7,595.00

Increase (Decrease) $ 514.72

Total Assets $ 8,109.72

Newsletter and Website Update

Matthew Hunt reminded the Council that Jennifer McLeer will be stepping down as newsletter

editor and website manager. He thanked Jennifer for her service to the Section and for her

diligence in maintaining these vital Section resources. Chair-elect Brent Simpson announced that

the new newsletter editors/ website managers would be Nick Heiserman (South Carolina) and

Jon Overton (Kent State).

Discussion: Council discussed ways to use social media to increase visibility of the section,

including greater use of the section’s Facebook page and creating a linked Instagram account.

There was discussion as to whether this should be handled by the membership committee or the

newsletter editors. Brent said that he would coordinate with both of these groups. Amy Kroska

suggested that those who donate to the Endowment fund be acknowledged in the newsletter.

Brent agreed and indicated that he would follow up on this.

Social Psychology Quarterly Update

Matthew Brashears and Brent Simpson delivered the SPQ Update. There have been 147 original

submissions in the last year, and the average time to decision is just under a month. The editors

are planning two special issues, one on creativity and one on social networks. Cathryn Johnson

and Weihua An will serve as guest editors for the issue on social networks.

New Business

1. Bylaws section name issue.

The ASA Section Office contacted Matt Hunt regarding the official section name. In

2016 the header on the website was changed from “Section on Social Psychology” to

“Section for Social Psychology.” The ASA office would like to know if this was a typo

or if was there an official name change. There is no evidence of an official name change

in any Section files. As a result, Matt asked for a vote of Council on whether to change

the header back to “Section on Social Psychology.” Council voted unanimously in favor

of this change. Matt will contact the ASA offices and request the change.

2. Revisit of SocArXiv Sociology Open Award Recognition (SOAR) program.

At last year’s Council Meeting there was discussion of the section participating in the

SocArXiv Sociology Open Award Recognition (SOAR) program, which would involve

making papers submitted for section awards publicly available. At that time, the Council

decided to revisit the issue this year. Matt Hunt asked Council members to report on

their experiences with the SOAR program in other sections. D’Lane Compton stated that

she is aware of four sections that participate in the SOAR program. Amy Kroska

indicated that the Family Section participates in the SOAR, but she is not aware of how is

going. Matt Hunt stated that a similar issue came up on the ASA Publications Committee

regarding archiving qualitative data. He suspects that there will be pushback if the

Section moves forward with SOAR. D’Lane noted that some other sections who

participate in SOAR have allowed submitters to opt-out.

Closing Remarks

Matt Hunt thanked outgoing members of Council by name and also expressed

appreciation to all Council members for their work throughout the year. He reminded

Council that Brent Simpson would be assuming chair duties at the end of the ASA

meetings. Brent thanked Matt for his work for the section and asked Council to let them

know if they had any suggestions for him as he begins his work as Chair. Matt Brashears

suggested that the Section might want to consider hosting a reception jointly with a

section other the just the Emotion section as a way to increase collaboration, build

bridges, etc. There was a brief discussion of advantages/disadvantages of partnering with

different Sections for the reception, and Brent indicated that he would keep these issues

in mind as he moved forward with plans for next year’s reception.

Meeting adjourned at 8:15