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Appendix F: Biographical Sketches
Pages 319-325

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From page 319...
... He serves on numerous federal and state advisory boards and commissions and is a fellow and the immediate past president of the American Society of Criminology. He currently serves as the chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice.
From page 320...
... He has held teaching positions at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the Wharton School, and the University of Chicago. His research is primarily published in academic journals and he is on several of their boards, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Strategic Management Journal, and Games and Economic Behavior.
From page 321...
... Sara Kiesler is professor of social and decision sciences and a faculty member in the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She has a PhD in psychology from Ohio State University, with an emphasis in experimental psychology, basic research on groups, group dynamics, relationships, communication, and decision making.
From page 322...
... From 1977 to 1994 he served as a law enforcement officer in the states of Arizona and Washington. He has consulted nationally on policing issues, has an MPA from the University of Washington's Graduate School of Public Affairs, and is completing doctoral studies at the Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University.
From page 323...
... He was principal investigator on a study of the economic impacts of riverboat gambling for the Indiana Gaming Commission. He is the coauthor of books on public policy, aviation safety, and various aspects of the U.S.
From page 324...
... Recent research projects on which he has served as principal or coprincipal investigator include the Addiction Training Center of New England, the Harvard Project on Gambling and Health, and Estimating the Prevalence of Disordered Gambling in the United States and Canada, a meta-analysis of over 150 gambling prevalence studies. His major research interests include the social perception of addiction and disease, the philosophy of science, impulse control regulation and compuisive behaviors, disordered gambling, addiction treatment outcomes, and the natural history of addictive behaviors.
From page 325...
... He also serves as senior research associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the university. He is a member of the American Psychological Association and is currently the principal investigator or coinvestigator for five projects supported by a variety of research organizations, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)


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