Board of Directors
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President Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University Research interests: categorization and reasoning, decision making, science inside and outside the classroom |
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Immediate Past President Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University Research interests: implicit social cognition, social neuroscience, and their legal, medical, business applications |
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President-Elect Joseph E. Steinmetz The Ohio State University Research interests: neural substrates of learning memory |
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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 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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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 |
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Janet Polivy University of Toronto, Mississauga Research interests: Eating behavior, cognitive and emotional reactions and personality correlates/contributors to dieting. |
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Jennifer A. Richeson Northwestern University Research interests: prejudice, stereotyping, and intergroup relations |
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Edward E. Smith Columbia University Research interests: cognitive and neural bases of working memory and cognitive control |















