Board of Directors
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President Elizabeth A. Phelps New York University Research interests: Processing of emotion by the human brain, memory, social interaction, and decision-making |
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Immediate Past President Joseph E. Steinmetz The Ohio State University Research interests: Neural substrates of learning memory |
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President-Elect Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University Research interests: social, emotional, and moral development and predictors of adjustment |
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Treasurer Roberta L. Klatzky Carnegie Mellon University Research interests: Human perception and cognition (haptic perception, spatial cognition) |
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Secretary Gün R. Semin Utrecht University, Netherlands and Koç University, Turkey Research interests: Communication, social cognition, and language |
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Executive Director Alan G. Kraut Association for Psychological Science |
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Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University Research interests: The nature of emotion and mind-brain correspondence |
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Susan Gelman University of Michigan Research interests: Concept and language development in young children |
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Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London, UK Research interests: progressive developmental trajectories and the underlying cognitive processes that support them |
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Wendy Berry Mendes University of California, San Francisco Research interests: Emotions and stress experienced in the brain and body |
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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 |
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Varda Shoham National Institute of Mental Health Research interests: Psychotherapy research, families and health, addictive and other health-compromising behavior and its treatment, graduate education in psychological clinical science. |















