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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
In spite of my new drive to attack brain injury and disease, I remained determined to have opportunities to conduct basic research, and I felt that biotechnology would offer me a greater opportunity to do basic research within a therapeutic context than some of the larger pharmaceutical companies. So I started my postdoctoral fellowship at a new biotechnology company, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, in 1992 under the direction of Stan Wiegand. I suggest that psychology students who are ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
The Psychology Behind the Product My domain of operation is the interaction between the product and its user - the User Interface. Now put those interactions into a noisy, mobile, even dangerous environment, or introduce product users who may be disabled, or put the product in a dramatically different cultural environment, and you can see why the psychology behind product development just got exciting. The work of the human factors team in Fort Lauderdale is driven by principles of optimal ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
James Cunningham, AT&T Labs You might call me a former psychological scientist - after getting my PhD from University of California, San Diego, I was a mathematical psychologist on the faculty of Cornell University before evolving into a usability engineer. While finishing my degree in social psychology at the University of Washington and contemplating my next step, I knew several people from the psychology department who left to do "usability" research at Microsoft. Usability research, ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
Most 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. Other times, this involves trying to develop a scientific base of understanding from which new technologies might emerge, such as our current work on information foraging theory, which deals with how humans interact with complex information ecologies like the World Wide ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
I am part of the Boeing Leadership Center, an organization chartered to develop today's and tomorrow's Boeing leaders. In the research arena, my colleagues and I are working on an exciting longitudinal study that looks at how Boeing leaders grow and develop over the life of their careers. Expanding on the work of previous researchers from the Center for Creative Leadership (a kind of a "think tank" for leadership development education and research, headquartered in Greensboro, NC), we are ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
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. " At this date, we at Anacapa have reached through the fog to complete more than 700 research and development projects for over 150 companies, institutions and government agencies. This perspective has become more critical in recent years in my work at Anacapa because ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
Between 1967 and 1999, the research department grew from about six employees to close to 100, and the research function had enlarged its scope of activities considerably beyond the area of human resources research, to include units concerned with auto collision technology, building technology, market research, consumer research and business/economic/competitive research. In addition to the attitude survey program managed by my unit, the Research Division includes a different unit devoted to ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
Peter Pirolli, Xerox PARC Most 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. 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. My doctorate committee at Purdue consisted of Charles Lawshe, Joseph Tiffin, ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
As an engineering psychologist at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), I'm involved in commercializing the voice and speech technologies developed by IBM Research. This work provides a tremendous opportunity to apply psychology - primarily cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics - to the design of human-computer interfaces. These opportunities include (but are not limited to): Developing design principles from the psychological and human factors literature, and applying the ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
In graduate school, I was fortunate to have a pair of mentors - Lyle Jones (himself a Reed person) and John Thibaut - who had broad views and were not defensive about my crossing intra-departmental specialty boundaries between quantitative and social psychology. At RAND, I use the psychological skills I learned studying with Lyle and John, and apply them to a broad variety of topics where I can feel that I make a difference. Game theory, seminar gaming, small group behavior, quantitative ...
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APS Observer | Psychologists in the Private Sector
Putting Psychology Out to Pasture Lucille Woolis Andersen Wildcat Creek Farms Visible Through the Fog Douglas H. Harris Anacapa Sciences, Inc. The Telecommunications Peak Philip Hodgson Motorola, Inc.
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
At RAND, I am a senior behavioral scientist, and I serve as co-director of the Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC) with another psychologist, M. Audrey Burnam. The research portfolio of the DPRC includes studies examining the relative cost effectiveness of different drug control options such as drug abuse prevention, drug treatment, criminal sanctions, supply interdiction, and source country controls. Scientific evaluations examine the constellation of drug use, HIV risk behaviors, and ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
For several years, my publications described the apparent brightness of mesopic colors, the color output of light valve and CRT projectors, and the procedures we developed for optimization of color in multiple-screen flight simulator displays. Since 1995, the contract formerly held by UDRI has been shared by three corporations, and my research has supported the Night Vision Training Research Program. Military labs tend to focus on research that can be applied in military operations, but my ...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
A friend who completed an internship at Microsoft Research described his research project to me, and I thought 'that sounds like experimental psychology.' I was looking for a summer job at the time, so I got online, and within Microsoft Research found the Virtual Worlds Group, which studies tools and technologies to enhance online social interactions. Now my research focuses on issues of identity, trust, community, social presence, and communication in computer-mediated social interactions.
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
Each usability engineer works as a member of a product team that also includes software engineers and business planners. Many with this sort of background are successful in the software industry - some in usability or human factors engineering jobs, and some in jobs farther away from their training, such as in software development or product management. We keep up-do-date in our field by participating in conferences and professional organizations like the Association for Computing Machinery...
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
It taught me to write thesis proposals and research reports, which are not unlike business plans. I keep up my memberships in the American Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association, and the New York Academy of Science, all of whom publish informative and up-to-date journals. If financial security is high on the list, recognize that business - any business - is risky.
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APS Observer | Psychological Scientists in the Private Sector
In multinational organizations, understanding other people's cultural backgrounds and developing multicultural communication skills are essential to creating a good working environment and achieving good job performance. Now I am interested in understanding and devising effective methods for cross-cultural communication as well as understanding cultural differences through an evolutionary psychological approach, stress and stress coping mechanisms in a multicultural environment, and brain ...
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American Psychological Society - Advocacy Archive
The provision would make all data produced under a federal grant available through the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. So under the proposed regulations, the federal agency, for example the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the National Science Foundation, would be required to get the data from the university. The prospect of handling such FOIA requests raises many concerns for federal research agencies, ranging from the definition of data to who pays the administrative costs of ...
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The provision would make all data produced under a federal grant available through the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. So under the proposed regulations, the federal agency, for example the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or the National Science Foundation, would be required to get the data from the university. The prospect of handling such FOIA requests raises many concerns for federal research agencies, ranging from the definition of data to who pays the administrative costs of ...
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APS Observer | Student Notebook
PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Here's some advice from senior faculty on how THEY think students should take advantage of conventions. On Meeting People: "Try to meet people and make sure you wear your name tag-but, don't just focus on the senior people, junior people may be more approachable, and eventually they will be the senior people. Although attending a convention may seem to be overwhelming and intimidating, a bit of planning and preparation can help make your convention experience a worthwhile...
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All Rights reserved 62 ? Trinity Innovations. All Rights reserved of 3 faculty, 6 postdocs, and 10 PhD students, whose research is highly coordinated. The successful candidate will develop his/her research in close col ? Trinity Innovations.
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All Rights reserved The Division of Weight and Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of ? All Rights reserved vitae, a cover letter, 3 reference names, and a statement of research interests to: Dwight L. Evans, M.D., ? Trinity Innovations. All Rights reserved and Eating Disorders; REF# 158; c/o A. Plotnick, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania ?
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APS Observer - Announcements
Why Are Textbooks So Expensive? Are University Presidents Overpaid or Underappreciated? APS Born While Washington Was Busy With Other Matters, Daniel Sl.
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APS Observer - Announcements
Why Are Textbooks So Expensive? Are University Presidents Overpaid or Underappreciated? APS Born While Washington Was Busy With Other Matters, Daniel Sl.
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APS Observer - Announcements
Academic Observer – All by Henry L. Roediger, III March 2003 So, You Want to Write a Textbook? November 2003 Graduate Education: Deep? October 2005 Should We Rank Ourselves?
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