Board of Directors

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Douglas Medin President
Douglas L. Medin
Northwestern University
Research interests: categorization and reasoning, decision making, science inside and outside the classroom
banaji_mahzarin_boardpage Immediate Past President
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Harvard University
Research interests: implicit social cognition, social neuroscience, and their legal, medical, business applications
Joe Steinmetz President-Elect
Joseph E. Steinmetz
The Ohio State University
Research interests: neural substrates of learning memory
Roberta Klatzky Treasurer
Roberta L. Klatzky
Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests: human perception and cognition (haptic perception, spatial cognition)
Gün Semin Secretary
Gün Semin
Utrecht University, Netherlands and Koç University, Turkey
Research interests: communication, social cognition, and language
Alan Kraut Executive Director
Alan G. Kraut
Association for Psychological Science
Lisa Feldman Barrett Lisa Feldman Barrett
Northeastern University
Research interests: the nature of emotion and mind-brain correspondence
Susan Gelman Susan Gelman
University of Michigan
Research interests: concept and language development in young children
Morris Moscovitch Morris Moscovitch
Rotman Research Institute
Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience of memory, attention, and face-recognition in neurologically normal young and old people and in people with focal or degenerative brain lesions
Janet Polivy Janet Polivy
University of Toronto, Mississauga
Research interests: Eating behavior, cognitive and emotional reactions and personality correlates/contributors to dieting.
Richeson Jennifer A. Richeson
Northwestern University
Research interests: prejudice, stereotyping, and intergroup relations
Edward Smith Edward E. Smith
Columbia University
Research interests: cognitive and neural bases of working memory and cognitive control