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Biographical Sketches
JOHN A. SWETS is chief scientist of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
After receiving degrees from the University of Michigan, he was assistant
and associate professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and then senior vice-president and general manager of Bolt
Beranek and Newman Inc. He is also lecturer in clinical epidemiology
at the Harvard Medical School. He is a fellow of the American Psycho-
logical Association and a fellow as well as a current or former council
member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the Acoustical Society of America, and the Society of Experimental
Psychologists. In 1985 he received the latter society's Warren Medal. He
has served on several advisory panels for the Department of Defense
(including the Science Advisory Board of the Navy Personnel Research
and Development Center), the National Institutes of Health (including
the clinical evaluation group of the National Cancer Institute), and the
National Research Council (including panels on intraservice standardiza-
tion of audiometric tests, research to improve hearing aids, design of a
standard emergency signal, and accuracy of polygraph lie detection). He
is editor or author of four books and many journal articles. His recent
research on enhancement and evaluation of human performance has
focused on thinking skills in secondary education and diagnostic skills in
the clinic.
ROBERT A. BIORK iS professor of psychology at the University of
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California, Los Angeles. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics from
the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford
University. He has been assistant, associate, and full professor at the
University of Michigan and has been a visiting scientist at Bell Labora-
tories, the University of California, San Diego, and the Rockefeller
University. His research interests center on human information process-
ing, particularly human memory, and on the practical application of that
research to instruction and the optimization of performance. He is the
author of numerous publications and has presented lectures and seminars
to many groups, such as corporate executives, college alumni, educators,
lawyers, and physicians, in this country and in Europe. He served as
editor of Memory & Cognition from 1981 to 1985 and has been on the
editorial boards of several other journals. He is a fellow of the American
Psychological Association and of the Society of Experimental Psychol-
ogists and is a member of the Psychonomic Society and the Cognitive
Science Society.
THOMAS D. COOK is a professor of psychology at Northwestern
University and a research/fellow at its Center for Urban Affairs and
Public Policy. He went to Northwestern after receiving degrees from
Oxford University and Stanford University. He has been a visiting
professor at the London School of Economics and a visiting scholar at
both the Russell Sage Foundation and the General Accounting Office.
He serves on the board of the American Evaluation Association, from
which he received the Myrdal prize for science in 1982. He has served
on panels for a number of federal agencies: the Department of the Army,
the Department of the Treasury, the General Accounting Office, the
Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Cancer Institute, and the
National Science Foundation. He has served on panels for the MacArthur
Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Police Foundation, and
the World Bank, as well as on scientific advisory boards for many
corporations doing evaluations for the federal government. He is editor
or author of four books and many journal articles. His major research
interests are theories of the practice of evaluation and the social psycho-
logical dynamics associated with poverty in the United States.
GERALD C.DAVISON has been professor of psychology at the University
of Southern California since 1979. Until 1984 he was also director of
clinical training and since then has been department chair. He received
an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University
and from 1966 to 1979 taught at the State University of New York at
Stony Brook. He has published articles on cognitive behavior therapy
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and experimental personality research and is coauthor of three books.
He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and has served
on the executive committee of the Division of Clinical Psychology, on
the Board of Scientific Affairs, and on the Committee on Scientific
Awards. He is also a past president of the Association for the Advancement
of Behavior Therapy. He has served on the editorial board of several
journals, including the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology,
Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy and Research. His current
research is concerned with cognitive assessment, stress, and hypertension.
DANIEL DRUCKMAN is study director of the Committee on Techniques
for the Enhancement of Human Performance. He received a Ph.D. in
social psychology from Northwestern University and was a winner of
the American Institutes for Research's best-in-field award for his disser-
tation. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
He was previously the Mathtech scientist at Mathematica, Inc., and
senior scientist and program manager at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He
has also been a consultant to the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, the U.S.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the U.S. delegation to the
Vienna talks on force reductions. His primary research interests are in
the areas of conflict resolution and negotiations, nonverbal communica-
tion, group processes, and modeling methodologies, including simulation.
He has published four books and numerous articles on these topics, some
of which have appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Advances
in Applied Social Psychology, A Handbook of Communication Skills:
Comparative Regional Systems, and Corporate Crisis Management.
LLOYD G. HUMPHREYS is professor emeritus of psychology and
education at the University of Illinois. After receiving degrees from the
University of Oregon, Indiana University, and Stanford University, he
held postdoctoral appointments at Yale and Columbia universities and
faculty appointments at Northwestern University, the University of
Washington, and Stanford University prior to his long-time tenure at the
University of Illinois. He also served in the Aviation Psychology Program
of the Army Air Forces during World War II and headed the Air Force's
Personnel Research Laboratory during and for several years following
the Korean War. He is a member of the Psychonomic Society (one-time
chairman of the governing board) and of the American Educational
Research Association. He is a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancemnet of Science (two-time chairman of the psychology
section). For the federal government, he served a brief term as assistant
director for science education in the National Science Foundation and
has been on several advisory panels, including the Air Force's Scientific
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Advisory Board. He was also associated with the Commission on Human
Resources of the National Research Council for a number of years. He
is the author of many book chapters and journal articles. In recent years
his research has been concerned with individual differences in human
abilities and theories of human intelligence.
RAY HYMAN is professor of psychology at the University of Oregon,
where he has taught since 1961. He received a Ph.D. from The Johns
Hopkins University and taught at Harvard University from 1953 to 1958.
He has also been a consultant to the General Electric Company, a
Fulbright-Hays research scholar (University of Bologna), a National
Science Foundation faculty fellow, and a visiting professor of psychology
at Stanford University. He serves on the editorial board of The Skeptical
Inquirer and is an associate editor of the Zetetic Scholar. His numerous
publications on topics related to parapsychology date back to 1957,
appearing in both parapsychological and other journals. They include
several books, encyclopedia chapters, and technical articles in such
journals as Proceedings of the IEEE and the Journal of Parapsychology.
DANIEL M. LANDERS is professor in the Department of Health and
Physical Education at the Arizona State University. After receiving
degrees from the University of Illinois, he was on the faculty at Illinois
University, the University of Washington, and the Pennsylvania State
University. He is a member of the American Psychological Association,
the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and the American College
of Sports Medicine. He is a fellow in the Research Consortium of the
American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance;
a fellow of the American Academy of Physical Education; and former
president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and
Physical Activity. His advisory work has included membership on
education and training committees for national sport governing bodies as
well as membership on the Visual Performance and Enhancement and
Sport Psychology committees of the U.S. Olympic Committee. He was
the cofounder and editor of the Journal of Sport Psychology and has also
edited or authored six books and many journal articles. His recent
research has dealt with psychophysiological theory and methodology
applied to sport and exercise, with a focus on understanding how atheletes
control arousal and focus concentration so as to maximize performance.
SANDRA ANN MOBL~Y has been director of training and development
for the Wyatt Company, an actuarial and benefit consulting organization,
since October 1986. She has worked in the field of training and devel-
opment in industry for the past seven years. Her previous position as
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manager of executive education at Hewlett Packard gave her broad
experience in methods for organizational change and executive devel-
opment. She has served on task forces to develop human resource
systems for the National Red Cross and the California Youth Authority.
In addition, she has consulted on organizational change, training, and
development for both high-technology and service-oriented firms. She
received bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics and computer
science from the University of Texas at Arlington and a master's in
business administration from the Harvard Business School.
LYMAN W. PORTER is professor of management and psychology in the
Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine.
He was formerly dean of the Graduate School of Management. Previously
he served 11 years on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.
During 196~1967 he was a visiting professor in the Department of
Administrative Sciences at Yale University. He is past president of the
Academy of Management and in 1983 received that organization's award
for scholarly contributions to management. He has also served as president
of the Division of Industrial-Organizational Psychology of the American
Psychological Association. His major fields of interest are organizational
psychology and management. He is the author or coauthor of six books
and many articles in these fields.
MICHAEL POSNER is professor of neuropsychology and psychology at
Washington University in St. Louis. He received a Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan and taught in the psychology department at the
University of Oregon from 1968 to 1985. He has also been a visiting
professor at Yale University, Cornell Medical College, and the University
of Minnesota and served as director of the neuropsychology laboratory
at Good Samaritan Hospital from 1979 to 1985. He has been an editor of
the Journal of Experimental Psychology, a Guggenheim fellow, a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the winner of the
distinguished scientific contribution award of the American Psychological
Association in 1980. His recent work has concentrated on problems of
attention and performance, and he has published numerous journal articles
and book chapters. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
in 1981.
WALTER SCHNEIDER is senior scientist at the Learning Research and
Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a Ph.D.
in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a
Miller research fellow there. He was both assistant and associate professor
at the University of Illinois and associate professor at the University of
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Pittsburgh. He is past president of the Society for Computers in Psy-
chology. He has served on several panels of the National Research
Council, studying such topics as flight simulator training and pilot
performance models in computer-aided design. His current research
involves skill acquisition and attention, modeling human performance,
computer-based training, and neural modeling of attention.
JEROME E. SINGER is professor and chair of the Department of Medical
Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
in Bethesda, Md. He received a B.A. in social anthropology from the
University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University
of Minnesota, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship at Minnesota in
histochemistry. He has taught at the Pennsylvania State University and
the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has been a visiting
scholar at the Educational Testing Service, a guest researcher at the
University of Stockholm, a staff associate at the Social Science Research
Council, and study director at the National Research Council. He has
been the recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science's sociopsychological prize and the outstanding contributor award
of the Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological
Association. He is founding editor of the Journal of Basic and Applied
Social Psychology and coeditor of two monograph series, Advances in
Environmental Psychology and Handbook of Psychology and Health.
SALLY P. SPRINGER is visiting professor in the Program in Human
Development at the University of California, Davis. She received a B.S.
from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from
Stanford University and has done postdoctoral work in the Program in
Hearing and Speech Sciences at the Stanford University School of
Medicine. She was assistant and associate professor of psycno~ogy al one
State University of New York at Stony Brook and also served as associate
provost there. She is coauthor, with George Deutsch, of Left Brain, Right
Brain, winner of the 1981 American Psychological Foundation distin-
guished contribution award. Her research and publications have been in
the area of hemispheric asymmetry of function.
RICHARD F. THOMPSON is professor of psychology and Bing Professor
of Human Biology at Stanford University. His previous positions include
professor of psychobiology in the School of Biological Sciences at the
University of California, Irvine, professor of psychology at Harvard
University, and professor of medical psychology and psychiatry at the
University of Oregon Medical School. His research is in the broad field
of psychobiology, with a focus on the neurobiological substrates of
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learning and memory. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and the Society of Experimental Psychologists, councilor of the
Society for Neuroscience, chair of the Psychonomic Society, and president
of Division 6 of the American Psychological Association. He has received
the distinguished scientific contribution award of the American Psycho-
logical Association and a research scientist career award from the National
Institute of Mental Health. He received a B.A. degree from Reed College
and a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the University of Wisconsin.
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