The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States,with over 146,000 members,including scientists,educators,clinicians,consultants,and students. It has 54 divisions—interest groups for different subspecialties of psychology or topical areas. The APA has an annual budget of around $125 million.
The Association for Psychological Science (APS),previously the American Psychological Society,is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote,protect,and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research,application,teaching,and the improvement of human welfare. APS publishes several journals,holds an annual meeting,disseminates psychological science research findings to the general public,and works with policymakers to strengthen support for scientific psychology.
Diane F. Halpern is an American psychologist and former president of the American Psychological Association (APA). She is Dean of Social Science at the Minerva Schools at KGI and also the McElwee Family Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. She is also past-president of the Western Psychological Association,The Society for the Teaching of Psychology,and the Division of General Psychology.
Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University,where she focuses on affective science. She is a director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Along with James Russell,she is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Emotion Review. Along with James Gross,she founded the Society for Affective Science.
Mahzarin Rustum Banaji FBA is an American psychologist of Indian origin at Harvard University,known for her work popularizing the concept of implicit bias in regard to race,gender,sexual orientation,and other factors.
Anne Anastasi was an American psychologist best known for her pioneering development of psychometrics. Her generative work,Psychological Testing,remains a classic text in which she drew attention to the individual being tested and therefore to the responsibilities of the testers. She called for them to go beyond test scores,to search the assessed individual's history to help them to better understand their own results and themselves.
Wendy Berry Mendes is the Sarlo/Ekman Professor of Emotion at University of California,San Francisco,United States. She was previously the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard University. Her expertise is in the area of emotion,intergroup relationships,stigma and psychophysiology. At UCSF she is the founder and director of the Emotion,Health,and Psychophysiology Lab in the Department of Psychiatry.
Janet Allison Taylor Spence was an American psychologist who worked in the field of the psychology of anxiety and in gender studies.
Florence Harriet Levin Denmark is an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1980-1981). She is a pioneering female psychologist who has influenced the psychological sciences through her scholarly and academic accomplishments in both psychology and feminist movements. She has contributed to psychology in several ways,specifically in the field of psychology of women and human rights,both nationally and internationally.
Ruth Kanfer is a psychologist and professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in the area of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is best known for her research in the fields of motivation,goal setting,self-regulation,job search,adult learning,and future of work. Kanfer has received numerous awards for her research contributions including the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution in Applied Research in 1989,the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) William R. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award in 2006 and the SIOP Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award in 2007. Ruth Kanfer has authored influential papers on a variety of topics including the interaction of cognitive abilities and motivation on performance,the influence of personality and motivation on job search and employment. and a review chapter on motivation in an organizational setting.
Kristina Reiss Olson is a psychologist and a professor at Princeton University in Princeton,NJ. She is known for her research on the development of social categories,transgender youth,and variation in human gender development. Olson was recipient of the 2016 Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science for transformative early career contributions,and the 2014 SAGE Young Scholars Award. Olson received the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation in 2018,and was the first psychological scientist to receive this prestigious award honoring early-career scientists. Olson is a member of the 2018 cohort of MacArthur "Genius" fellows.
Cynthia D. Belar is a scientist known for her contributions to clinical psychology with specific focus on health psychology,clinical service,and education. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of Florida Health Science Center.
Dare Ann Baldwin is a scientist known for her research on learning mechanisms and early social skills of infants and young children. Baldwin is a professor of psychology at Oregon University. Baldwin is the recipient of various awards including the 1994 Boyd McCandless Award from Division 7 of the American Psychological Association,1995 John Merck Scholars Award,1997 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology,2006-2007 James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship,2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship,2006-2007 University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Excellence Award,and 2018 University of Oregon Faculty Research Award.
Sheila Eyberg is a professor at the University of Florida where she is a part of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. Eyberg was born in 1944,in Omaha,Nebraska to Clarence George and Geraldine Elizabeth Eyberg. She is recognized for developing parent–child interaction therapy. She is the President and CEO of the PCIT International.
Linda C. Gallo is a scientist known for behavioral medicine. Gallo is a professor at San Diego State University and serves as a part of the San Diego State / University of California,San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. She serves as a co-director at the South Bay Latino Research Center.
Lara Beth Aknin is a Canadian social psychologist. She is an assistant professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University and a distinguished university professor.
Roxane Cohen Silver is a social,health psychologist known for her work on personal,national,and international traumas and how people cope with these traumas. She holds the position of Vice Provost for Academic Planning &Institutional Research and Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science,Public Health,and Medicine at the University of California,Irvine.
Lillian Comas-Díaz is an American psychologist and researcher of multiethnic and multicultural communities. She was the 2019 winner of American Psychological Association (APA) Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Practice of Psychology. In 2000,she received the APA Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contribution to the Public Interest.
Tania Lombrozo is an American psychologist who is the Arthur W. Marks Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. She oversees the Concepts and Cognition Laboratory,which looks to understand the science that underpins cognition.
Thema S. Bryant is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at the Pepperdine University,where she directs the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory. Her research considers interpersonal trauma and societal trauma of oppression. She was elected as the 2023 President of the American Psychological Association.
