  {"id":31402,"date":"2024-05-31T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=31402"},"modified":"2024-05-31T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:30:33","slug":"silka-voted-in-as-president-elect-of-american-psychological-association-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2024\/05\/31\/silka-voted-in-as-president-elect-of-american-psychological-association-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Silka voted in as President-Elect of American Psychological Association Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21170 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/11\/Silka-Photo2-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Linda Silka\" width=\"191\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/11\/Silka-Photo2-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/11\/Silka-Photo2-3-105x140.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/11\/Silka-Photo2-3-317x423.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/11\/Silka-Photo2-3-423x564.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2020\/11\/Silka-Photo2-3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,191px\" \/>Mitchell Center Senior Faculty Fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/linda-silka\/\">Linda Silka<\/a> has been voted in as President-Elect for the environmental division of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Psychological Association<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<section id=\"ctcol\" class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"forceimagewrap\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg lengthy\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/about\/division\/div34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Division 34: Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology<\/a> members apply psychological knowledge and practice to improve interactions between humans and our natural and built environments. Topics of interest include (1) human behavior and well-being related to the design of built spaces, landscapes and natural environments, (2) conservation of wildlife and other species, (3) synergies between human mental health and the ecology of the natural environment, and (4) the psychological consequences of high population density. We maintain websites, an electronic mailing list and social networking sites; publish newsletters; organize APA convention programs; publicize activities and employment opportunities; and promote diverse approaches in the study of environmental psychology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Center Senior Faculty Fellow Linda Silka has been voted in as President-Elect for the environmental division of the American Psychological Association. Division 34: Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology members apply psychological knowledge and practice to improve interactions between humans and our natural and built environments. Topics of interest include (1) human behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":-1},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31405,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402\/revisions\/31405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}