Diane F. Halpern

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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 (Keck Graduate Institute) and also the McElwee Family Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. She is also a former president of the Western Psychological Association, The Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and the Division of General Psychology.

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Halpern served on boards and panels at the APA including the Board of Educational Affairs, the Council of Representatives, the Committee on International Relations in Psychology, the Committee on Learning Outcomes, and Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools. She chaired the Panel on Public Policy and APA's National Conference on Undergraduate Education that resulted in the publication Undergraduate Education in Psychology: A Blueprint for the Future of the Discipline. [Identify date and edition of this title by citation]

Along with Keith Millis (Northern Illinois University) and Arthur C. Graesser (University of Memphis), Halpern developed Operation ARA, a computerized game that teaches scientific reasoning. [1] She also developed the Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (Schuhfried Publishers) [2] that uses multiple response formats which allow test-takers to demonstrate their ability to think about everyday topics using both constructed response and recognition formats.

Halpern received her B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Temple University. She then received an M.A., from University of Cincinnati, followed by a Ph.D. from that institution in 1979. After teaching for many years at the California State University, San Bernardino, she is currently Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College.

In 1995, Halpern was part of an 11-member APA task force led by Ulric Neisser which published Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns , a report written in response to The Bell Curve . She has also written on cognitive differences between men and women. She suggests a biopsychosocial model offers superior insight into cognitive sex differences than a simple nature-vs-nurture dichotomy. Another topic of her research is risks associated with left-handedness. [3] Halpern has also written in opposition of single-sex schooling, noting that it "lacks scientific support and may exaggerate sexism and gender stereotyping". [4]

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Awards and honors

Halpern has won awards for her teaching and research, including:

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  1. ↑ Halpern, Diane F.; Millis, Keith; Graesser, Arthur C.; Butler, Heather; Forsyth, Carol; Cai, Zhiqiang (2012). "Operation ARA: A computerized learning game that teaches critical thinking and scientific reasoning". Thinking Skills and Creativity. 7 (2): 93–100. doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2012.03.006.
  2. ↑ "HCTA Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment". Archived from the original on 2013-12-15.
  3. ↑ Reuters (April 4, 1991). Being Left-Handed May Be Dangerous To Life, Study Says. The New York Times
  4. ↑ Science (September 23, 2011). The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling. Science
  5. ↑ "2013 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award". Association for Psychological Science - APS. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  6. ↑ "Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology - American Psychological Foundation". 2023-03-14. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  7. ↑ "Raymond D. Fowler Award for Outstanding Contributions to APA". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  8. ↑ "George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology". www.apadivisions.org. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  9. ↑ Halpern, Diane F.; Benbow, Camilla P.; Geary, David C.; Gur, Ruben C.; Hyde, Janet Shibley; Gernsbacher, Morton Ann (2007). "The Science of Sex Differences in Science and Mathematics". Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 8 (1): 1–51. doi:10.1111/j.1529-1006.2007.00032.x. ISSN   1529-1006. JSTOR   40062381. PMC   4270278 . PMID   25530726.
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  12. ↑ "Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  13. ↑ Donovan, Jessica (2003-04-15). "McMicken College Awards: Five Distinguished Alumni, Five Different Paths". UC News. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
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