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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 143-150

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... Currently, he is studying the role of causal reasoning in judgments of many kinds: civil jury decision making (punitive damages, securities fraud) ; decision-making competencies across the adult life span; and writing a book (with Cass Sunstein)
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... Current and recent research projects include developing and evaluating demonstrations that test innovative strategies to promote self-sufficiency for low-income families for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and an evaluation of the Accelerating Opportunity demonstration, which is testing new strategies for linking adult education and vocational training.
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... , where her work included support for military operations and liaison relationships across Sub-Saharan Africa and in Japan, South Korea, and Mongolia, as well as conducting worldwide intelligence collection operations (including during deployment to Afghanistan) to answer strategic and tactical military intelligence requirements.
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... His research focuses on computational models of human cognitive and social processes, especially emotion, and explores these models' role in shaping human-computer interactions in virtual environments. He studies the relationship between cognition and emotion, the cognitive processes underlying emotional responses, and the influence of emotion on decision making and physical behavior.
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... Alair MacLean is associate professor of sociology at Washington State University Vancouver. Her research focuses broadly on social inequality.
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... He has authored six monographs in these fields, and has co-authored or co-edited additional monographs. He was director of the Institute for Research on Poverty and chair of the Board of Overseers of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, as well as editor of the Journal of Human Resources, co-editor of the Econometric Society Monograph Series, member of the editorial board of the Annual Review of Economics, and associate editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Transportation Science.
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... APPENDIX 149 Tina Winters is an associate program officer at the National Research Council, where she has played an integral part in dozens of studies over a career spanning 20 years. She currently is a staff member for the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and previously worked on consensus studies and other activities related to K-12 science and mathematics education, testing and assessment, education research, and social science research for public policy use.


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