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Kurt Salzinger
Senior Scholar in Residence,
Department of Psychology,
Hofstra University,
Hempstead, N.Y. 11549
Date
of Birth: November 15, 1929
Place of Birth: Vienna,
Austria
Citizenship: United States
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Kurt
Salzinger, Ph.D. is Senior Scholar in Residence at Hofstra
University in Hempstead, N.Y.
since January 2003. He was Executive Director for Science at the American
Psychological Association 2001 to 2003. He’s been President of the New York
Academy of Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors of the APA, and
been president of Divisions 1 (General Psychology) and 25 (Behavior
Analysis), and of the American Association of Applied and Preventive
Psychology. He also served as the first Chair of the Board of the Cambridge Center 1986 – 1988, subsequently as
a member until 1991 and again a member of the Board since 2004. He is
author or editor of 12 books and over 120 articles and book chapters. The
most recent book was edited by Rieber, R.W., and him in 1998: Psychology:
Theoretical-historical perspectives. Washington,
D.C.: American Psychological
Association. He has varied research interests, including behavior analysis
applied to human beings, dogs, rats, and goldfish, schizophrenia, verbal
behavior of children and adults and history of psychology. He has both
given grants (when a program officer at the National Science Foundation)
and received them (when professor of psychology at Hofstra University
and Polytechnic University of New York and Principal Research Scientist at
the New York State Psychiatric Institute) for his own research. He received
the Sustained Superior Performance Award from the NSF, the Stratton Award
from the American Psychopathological Association, and the Most Meritorious
Article Award from the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental
Psychiatry. In 2002 he was Presidential Scholar for the Association for
Behavior Analysis.
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