1995 Distinguished Scientist Lecturers Selected
The Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) has selected Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., PhD, E. Mavis Hetherington, PhD, and Robert M. Kaplan, PhD, to be APA's 1995 Distinguished Scientist Lecturers. They will present their research at several regional psychological association meetings in 1995.
The Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Program was created by BSA, with the support of the regional psychological association presidents, as a means of promoting scientific psychology. This past year, Janet T. Spence, PhD, Elliot Aronson, PhD, and Harry C. Triandis, PhD, were selected for this honor. Previous lecturers have included the following scientists: in 1993, Norman Anderson, PhD, Robert Plomin, PhD, and Michael I. Posner, PhD; in 1992, Linda Bartoshuk, PhD, Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, and Richard F. Thompson, PhD; and in 1991, Gordon Bower, PhD, Stephen Suomi, PhD, and Robert Zajonc, PhD. The program's first lecturers were Jerome Kagan, PhD, and Eleanor Maccoby, PhD, in 1990.
Dr. Bouchard, Director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Adoption Research at the University of Minnesota, will discuss 'Nature's twice-told tale: Identical twins reared apart--What they tell us about human individuality,' at the Western Psychological Association meeting in Los Angeles, March 30-April 2.
Dr. Hetherington, James Page Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia, will speak at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting in Chicago, May 4-6, and at the New England Psychological Association meeting in Wenham, MA, October 27-28. Her talk is entitled 'Families in Transition: Divorce and Remarriage.'
Dr. Kaplan, Chief, Division of Health Care Sciences and Professor of Family and Preventative Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, will present 'Opportunity Costs in Health Care Reform' at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting in Boston, March 31-April 2.
Marybeth Hanley