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F Biographical Sketches
Pages 282-288

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From page 282...
... , and the National Research Council (including panels on intraservice standardization of audiometric tests, research to improve hearing aids, design of a standard emergency signal, and accuracy of polygraph lie detection)
From page 283...
... 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.
From page 284...
... 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.
From page 285...
... , 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.
From page 286...
... 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.
From page 287...
... 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.
From page 288...
... He has received the distinguished scientific contribution award of the American Psychological Association and a research scientist career award from the National Institute of Mental Health. He received a B.A.


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