The 2008 APS Election Is Now Closed.

The 2008 election slate includes the APS President-Elect and two Board Members-at-Large. Details about each candidate are listed below and will be repeated in the 'Biographies' portion of the online ballot.

 

President-Elect

LINDA M. BARTOSHUK is Bushnell Professor at the University of Florida and Director of Human Research in the UF Smell and Taste Center. She is currently APS Secretary, a Fellow and Charter Member of APS and gave the Bring the Family Address at the APS Convention in 2004. She has served as President of the Eastern Psychological Association, Divisions 1 (General Psychology) and 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology) of APA and the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS). She has been elected to the Society for Experimental Psychologists, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). She currently serves as a member of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences of NAS and has recently been elected to the Council of NAS. She has received honorary degrees from Carleton College and Yale University. She studies the sense of taste (sensation and affect) with emphasis on the effects of genetic variation (e.g., supertasters) and taste pathology (e.g., taste loss and phantoms) on health.

RICHARD R. BOOTZIN is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona and a Charter Member and Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He served as an elected member of the APS Board of Directors (2004-2007), Chair of the Fellows Committee of APS (2002-2004) and member of the APS Program Committee (1999-2001). He has also held elective office as member of the Board of Directors of the Sleep Research Society (1999-2002), president of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science (1998-2001), and president of the Society for the Science of Clinical Psychology (1992). He was chair of the APCS coordinating committee for an NIMH-APCS workshop on training in psychological clinical science (2004). His research interests include the understanding and treatment of insomnia and sleep disturbance, sleep and cognition, conceptual and methodological issues involved in developing effective psychological interventions, and mental health policy and evaluation.

 

Member-at-Large (Slate 1)

MILT HAKEL is Professor and Ohio Board of Regents Eminent Scholar at Bowling Green State University. He is a Charter Member and Fellow of APS. He has served as Treasurer (1989-93), co-chaired four summit meetings, was Interim Editor of Current Directions in Psychological Science (1997-98), and currently co-chairs the task force on Life Long Learning at Work and at Home. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (1972), APS (1988), and AAAS (2003). For the National Research Council, he chairs the Committee on Evaluation of the Impact of Teacher Certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. His research focuses on formative assessment.

FRANK SCHMIDT is the Ralph L. Sheets Professor of Human Resources in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He has been assistant and associate professor of I/O Psychology at Michigan State, and for 11 years he directed a research program in employment selection at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. His research areas include personnel testing, selection, and placement; the role of intelligence and personality in job performance, causal models of job performance, and research methodology, particularly meta-analysis methods and measurement issues. He has received the APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Awards from APA (with John Hunter) and SIOP. He is a Fellow of APS, APA, and SIOP, and is past president of the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation Division of APA.

ELKE U. WEBER holds a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology and the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where she is the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business.  At Columbia, she founded and co-directs the Center for the Decision Sciences and the NSF-funded Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. She is past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and the Society for Mathematical Psychology, and current president of the Society for Neuroeconomics. Her research provides psychological process models of risky choice and intertemporal decisions. She is a Fellow of APS and APA, has served on two NAS committees related to human dimensions of global change, on the Academic Advisory Committee of The Aspen Institute's Ethical Globalization Initiative, and currently is on the Academic Steering Committee of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

Member-at-Large (Slate 2)

NICK CHATER is Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences at University College London. He is the author of over one hundred and fifty scientific publications and has written or edited seven books. He is a past winner of the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal; the BPS Cognitive Section Best Paper award (with Mike Oaksford); and the Experimental Psychology Society Award. His research explores formal models of inference, choice, and language. He is currently an Associate Editor of Psychological Review, and was previously an Associate Editor of Cognitive Science.

SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She is the founding editor of Language Learning and Development, and is an Associate Editor of Cognitive Science. She served as president of the Cognitive Development Society (2003-2005), chair of the AAAS Section on Linguistics and Language Science (2006-2007), and is currently president of the International Society of Gesture Studies. She is a Fellow of APS, APA Divisions 7 and 3, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research has two foci: (1) language creation in children who are not exposed to linguistic input, and (2) the gestures we produce while speaking and their impact on thinking.

RACHEL E. KEEN (formerly Rachel K. Clifton) joined the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia in 2007 after many years at the University of Massachusetts. She held a Research Scientist Award from NIMH from 1981-2001 and currently holds a MERIT award from NICHD. She has been President of the International Society on Infant Studies, Editor of the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, and Associate Editor for Child Development and for Psychophysiology. She is a fellow of APS, APA, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Acoustical Society of America. Her research concerns cognitive and perceptual-motor development in children.

To cast you ballot now, please click here: http://www.electionadmin.com/aps.htm.

Presidential and Board terms officially commence at the close of the APS Annual Convention in May. The results of the election will be announced on the APS Web site, www.psychologicalscience.org, shortly after results are tabulated and in the June Observer. Thank you for your participation.

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