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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 from 2004 to 2007. He
is author or editor of 12 books and over 120 articles and book chapters.
The most recent book was edited by him and M. R. Serper in 2009: Behavioral
Mechanisms and Psychopathology. 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, the APA Presidential
Award 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. 2009-2010 he was elected
president of the Eastern Psychological Association. He was elected president-elect
of the Association for Behavior Analysis International 2011- 2012.
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