SBM President's Message
Pride, Prejudice, and the Power of Stories to Enrich our Professional Impact on the World
I have always prided myself on 'wearing the mantle' of science as best as I could—through being dispassionate, exacting, and appropriately distanced from the objects of my investigations. Isn’t that what we have been taught from the beginning of our careers, starting, for many of us, in that Psychology 101 class with the term “objectivity”? Of course, those basics of scientific inquiry remain fundamental for building an evidence base that is, as much as we can make it, minimally biased, concise, and trustworthy. And I always believed that if I just conducted strong, “tight” science, the results would speak for themselves, my job as a scientist ending with scientific publication and presentations. Surely that is what my academic institution, colleagues, and, by extension, community members and policy makers seemed to care the most about. I couldn't have been more wrong. Read more >>

SBM Steps Into the Public Policy Arena!
Developments in healthcare reform and congressional pressure on the National Institutes of Health (and the researchers they fund) to demonstrate how scientific advances influence the health of the nation provide exciting opportunities for our Society to achieve our vision of better health through behavior change. Recently, SBM President Karen M. Emmons, PhD, engaged the Board of Directors in identifying areas where our Society could contribute, at the public policy level, to improving health through advances in behavioral medicine. Read more >>

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