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The 2009 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 16, 2009 and will close April 5, 2009.

President-Elect

Mahzarin R. Banaji is Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2008, she also held the position of Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. From 1986-2001, Banaji taught at Yale University where she was Rueben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology. Banaji is a Charter Member and Fellow of APS, and served as APS Secretary in 1997 and 1998. She chaired an APS task force on the dissemination of psychological science, an effort that helped lay the groundwork for APS's success in the area of public outreach. Banaji was elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009 she will be inducted as Herbert Simon Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Banaji has been the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, APA's Presidential Citation and the 2009 Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology. Banaji studies social cognition, with an emphasis on mental processes that operate outside conscious awareness, control, and intention. Her work uses measures of behavior and brain activity, involves analyses of children, adults and cross-cultural samples to understand perceptions of self and other, us and them.

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Fellow and Charter Member of APS, and is a recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award (Career Award), the Senior Humboldt Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), the Award for Scholarship and Creativity from the Regents of the University of Maryland, and the Revesz Award from the University of Amsterdam. He was Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a Fellow of APA. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of American Psychologist. Kruglanski has served on NAS panels on the psychology of terrorism and is serving currently as co-director of START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism). His interests have been in the domains of human judgment and belief formation, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, and the psychology of human goals.

 

Member-at-Large (Slate 1)

Susan M. Andersen is Professor of Psychology at New York University, where she formerly served as head of the doctoral program in social psychology, as well as director of graduate studies for the department, and director of clinical training. She is a Fellow and Charter Member of APS, and has also served as associate editor of Psychological Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Cognition, Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, and most recently, Self and Identity. She is a Fellow of two APA divisions as well. Her research examines mental representations of significant others and the ways in which people define themselves in relation to significant persons in their lives - by experimentally demonstrating "transference" in everyday social perception, evoking the relational self, and influencing affect and motivation.

Eva M. Pomerantz is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was named a Helen Petit Scholar in 2001. She is a Fellow of APS. She served as an associate editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology from 2004 to 2008; she has also been on the editorial board of Child Development and Developmental Psychology. She is in her third year as chair of the Institutional Review Board at the University of Illinois. Her research is concerned with the development of children's academic and emotional functioning with an emphasis on the role of social influences, such as parents and peers as well as culture.

Jennifer A. Richeson is Associate Professor of Psychology and African American Studies and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is also a Fellow and member of the Executive Board of Northwestern's Center on Social Disparities and Health (C2S: Cells to Society). She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology and a Fellow of an APA division. She will receive the 2009 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Social Psychology) from APA and in 2006, she was named one of 25 MacArthur Fellows for her research "highlighting and analyzing major challenges facing all races in America and in the continuing role played by prejudice and stereotyping in our lives."

Member-at-Large (Slate 2)

Margaret S. Clark is Professor of Social Psychology at Yale University. Prior to the existence of APS, she served on the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association, advocated for the formation of APS and became an APS Charter Member, and later, Fellow. She is a past president, and long time executive committee member, of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and a past chair and two-term executive committee member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. She has twice served as an associate editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Psychological Science, as editor of the Review of Personality and Social Psychology (now Personality and Social Psychology Review), on boards for her undergraduate college and two community organizations and as president of one of those boards. Her research and publications lie in the areas of emotions and close relationships.

Gün R. Semin is Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University. He is a Fellow of APS and currently serves as chair of the APS international committee. He is the founding scientific director of the Kurt Lewin Institute in Social Psychology and its Applications (1992-1996). He has served as president of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (1991-1993), as research director of the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogics, Free University Amsterdam (2000 - 2003), and as chair of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences, European Science Foundation (2005-2007). His research interest has two foci: (1) language, social cognition and communication, and (2) socially situated cognition, with particular emphasis on embodied grounding of concrete and abstract concepts.

Edward E. Smith is the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, and the Ransford Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry in the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). He is a Fellow of APS, and received the APS William James Fellow award in 1999 for significant lifetime achievement in basic science of psychology. He also serves as director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience at NYSPI. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996, and has served as the psychology editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences since 1999. He has served as Chair of both the Psychonomic Society and the Cognitive Science Society. His research has had two main foci: (1) concepts and categorization; and (2) working memory and cognitive control. He has studied both these topics with multiple methodologies, including behavioral performance, patient studies (e.g., probable AD patients), and neuroimaging.

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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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