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The 2010 election slate includes the APS President-Elect and two Board Members-at-Large. Details about each candidate are listed below and are repeated in the 'Biographies' portion of the online ballot. The election opened March 22, 2010 and will close April 14, 2010.

President-Elect

C. Randy Gallistel is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. He served on the APS Board of Directors from 2001 to 2004. Gallistel was founding co-editor of Current Directions in Psychological Science, and received the APS William James Fellow Award for a lifetime of distinguished contributions in basic research. He is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, a Warren Medalist, and a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences. Gallistel's research spans behavioral neuroscience and cognitive science, focusing on animal cognition, the nature of learning, the psychophysics of abstract quantities (space, time, number and probability), and the neurobiology of memory.

Douglas L. Medin is the Louis W. Menk Professor in Psychology and in Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He served on the APS Board of Directors from 2005 to 2008 and is a Fellow of APS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.  Medin is a recipient of a Presidential Citation and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the APA, and was awarded a James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship. Best known for his research on concepts and categorization, his recent research interests have extended to cross-cultural studies of biological categorization and reasoning, cultural and cognitive dimensions of moral reasoning and decision making, and culturally- and community-based science education.

 

Member-at-Large (Slate 1)

John D. Gabrieli is the Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is a Fellow of APS and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Gabrieli was selected to deliver the APS William James Distinguished Lecture in 2002. Gabrieli received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching from Stanford University in 2001, and received an early career award and an award for outstanding paper from divisions of APA. His research has focused on cognitive and affective functions of the human brain in healthy people of all ages as revealed by neuroimaging, and how those functions are altered in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, autism, dyslexia, ADHD, schizophrenia, and depression.

Morris Moscovitch, the Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging, is Professor and Graduate Chair of Psychology at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre. In 2008, he received the APS William James Award for lifetime contributions to basic psychology. He is a Fellow and Charter Member of APS and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Society of Experimental Psychology. In 2007, he received the D.O.Hebb Award for lifetime contributions to research in psychology in Canada. From 2001-2004, he was co-Editor-in-Chief of Neuropsychologia. He is engaged in research on recent and remote episodic and semantic memory; attention; face recognition; and implicit memory. Using various methodologies, including behavioral performance and neuroimaging, he studies healthy young and older adults, people with focal brain lesions or degeneration, and rodents.

Charles A. Nelson, III is the Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; an affiliate faculty member in the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and a Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.  He is also the Richard David Scott Professor of Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research at Children's Hospital Boston and Director of Research in the Division of Developmental Medicine. He is a Fellow of APS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and APA. Recognized internationally as a leader in the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, He has achieved numerous breakthroughs in broadening scientific understanding of brain and behavioral development during infancy and childhood.

 

Member-at-Large (Slate 2)

Richard J. McNally is Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. McNally is a Fellow of APS, winner of the 2005 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology, and is a licensed clinical psychologist. He served on the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV PTSD and simple phobia committees, and he is an advisor to the DSM-V Anxiety Disorders Sub-Workgroup. He has more than 320 publications, most concerning the psychopathology of anxiety disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder), and the books Panic Disorder: A Critical Analysis (Guilford Press, 1994) and Remembering Trauma (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2003). He has also conducted laboratory studies concerning cognitive functioning in adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse, including those reporting recovered memories.

Gregory A. Miller is Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, and Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a B.A. in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Konstanz (Germany). A Fellow of APS, Miller studies attentional control, emotional regulation, and sensory processes in depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia and develops multimodal neuroimaging integration methods (MEG, EEG, fMRI). He has served as Director of the campus Biomedical Imaging Center, editor of Psychophysiology, and President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and is now Cognitive Neuroscience Group Leader at the Beckman Institute and Program Director of the "Training in Cognitive Psychophysiology" NIMH training grant.

 

Janet Polivy has been a Full Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Toronto since 1985. She is a Fellow and Charter Member of APS and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2006. She served on the Council of the College of Psychologists of Ontario and was a member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President of the College. She has served on various committees for the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, as well as on scientific panels for the US and Canadian governments. Most recently, she served as the treasurer of the Academy for Psychological Clinical Science. Polivy's research has focused on the difficulties of self-regulation and self-change (the False Hope Syndrome), the influences of restrained eating and caloric restriction on cognition, emotion, and behavior, the influences of personality (in particular restrained eating, or chronic dieting), emotion, cognition and socio-cultural factors on eating behavior, and various aspects of body image, media influences and self-esteem.

 

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Presidential and Board terms officially commence at the close of the APS Annual Convention in May. The results of the election will be announced in the September Observer.

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