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Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
More Time for ResearchPeter Pirolli, Xerox PARCMost academics are baffled when I tell them I switched from a tenured position in academia to a job in industrial research mainly because of my desire for greater academic freedom to pursue new areas of fundamental research. Continue... A Cool Living ZoomGail Cramer, Solutions for the 21st CenturyTo begin at the beginning: I went into psychology because of all the academic disciplines, it seemed to me to cover the largest territory. Psychology was about life; it was all-inclusive, it covered everything - what could be bigger? Continue... Making A DifferenceJames P. Kahan, RAND EuropeI am by inclination a generalist; some might even say dilettante (but see last year's APS Observer1 on that topic). Even at Reed College, that bastion of liberal education, I was a generalist, taking courses on the philosophy of religion and Shakespeare in my senior year instead of the departmentally-recommended independent studies in psychology. Continue... Basic Research in a Therapeutic ContextSusan Croll, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.As a young girl, I dreamed of conducting basic scientific research. I also fervently wanted to teach, because I had spent many hours as a child watching my college professor father, Charles Croll, lecture to his psychology students. During my undergraduate years as a psychology major at SUNY Geneseo, my love for the basic science of behavior grew. Continue... Many Cultures at WorkChisato Aoki, Fellowship ProgramI work for a United Nations-based organization that has 55 member countries and 15 nationalities working in the office. Of course, there are always differences among people in any organization. But such differences are magnified in a multinational environment. Continue... Visible Through the FogDouglas H. Harris, Anacapa Sciences, Inc.Rather than starting at the beginning, I'll just go back to the PhD in industrial psychology I received from Purdue University in 1959. My doctorate committee at Purdue consisted of Charles Lawshe, Joseph Tiffin, Ernest McCormick and Benjamin Winer, representing interests in industrial and organizational psychology, human factors engineering and statistics. This diversity of applied interests seemed to coincide with my own and probably set the tone for what was to follow... Continue...
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