Board of Directors

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Joe Steinmetz President
Joseph E. Steinmetz
The Ohio State University
Research interests: Neural substrates of learning memory
Douglas Medin Immediate Past President
Douglas L. Medin
Northwestern University
Research interests: Categorization and reasoning, decision making, science inside and outside the classroom
Elizabeth Phelps President-Elect
Elizabeth A. Phelps
New York University
Research interests: Processing of emotion by the human brain, memory, social interaction, and decision-making
Roberta Klatzky Treasurer
Roberta L. Klatzky
Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests: Human perception and cognition (haptic perception, spatial cognition)
Gün Semin Secretary
Gün R. 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
Wendy Berry Mendes Wendy Berry Mendes
University of California, San Francisco
Research interests: Emotions and stress experienced in the brain and body
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
Suparna Rajaram Suparna Rajaram
Stony Brook University
Research interests: Cognitive and neural bases of human memory and amnesia, collaborative learning and remembering in young and older adults, social memory, and cognitive and social psychology