News Release
June 19, 2002
For Immediate Release
Contact: Brian Weaver
(202) 783.2077 ext. 3022
bweaver@psychologicalscience.org
University of Chicago's Cacioppo Elected to APS Board
John T. Cacioppo has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society (APS). APS is the leading organization of academic psychologists in the United States and is devoted to scientific psychology. The Society has more than 14,000 members, publishes three highly regarded journals, and is recognized as a leading voice in Washington, DC, for psychological science.
Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, where he is also the director of the social psychology program and the co-director of the Institute for Mind and Biology. His research focuses on the field of social neuroscience, exploring the ways in which the interactions between our psychology, our physiology, and our social world are manifested in our behavior.
"APS has become the academic society concerned with the science of psychology," Cacioppo said. "As such, it is important to keep it in tune with and responsive to the directions and needs of the scientists and students in the field."
Cacioppo is an APS Fellow and Charter Member of the Society. He has served as the President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for Consumer Research, and the Society for Psychophysiological Research.
He is a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award, the Society for Psychophysiological Research's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's Campbell Award for distinguished scientific contributions to personality and social psychology.
Cacioppo's term began on June 9, 2002, at the conclusion of the APS Annual Convention in New Orleans, where he delivered the keynote address, "Built for Pleasure: How Mood and Emotion Reflect Our Hedonic Instincts."
Also elected to the APS Board of Directors are Henry L. Roediger, III, of Washington University in St. Louis (elected APS president) and Denise Park of the University of Michigan.
The American Psychological Society is dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology research and the "giving away" of psychology in the public interest. For more information on the American Psychological Society, go online to www.psychologicalscience.org.