About Me
I was born in Milwaukee to an Italian mother and Polish father; their ethnicities are important because they helped shape my interest in nonverbal communication and provide me with an awareness of the connection between behavior and outcomes; research foci of mine for most of my adult life. `
My undergraduate years were spent at a small liberal arts college. I always enjoyed the academic, social and athletic aspects of school. My advanced education began with a masters degree in psychology at Marquette in Milwaukee. I had to stay in the city to help care for my younger brothers and sister while my mother was treated for breast cancer. Before I traveled to a Big-Ten school for my doctoral training where I was also introduced to big time football, I married my college sweetheart, Kaaren.
My internship in clinical psychology took place at Duke University Medical Center. It was my first extended stay in the south and I marveled, as I still do now, that plants began to show themselves in late January. I have stayed in the south where I took my first and only position at the department of psychology at Emory University. My son was born at Emory hospital and he, his wife Jenny and my two grandchildren live nearby in Savannah. I retired from Emory University in 2011, but have continued to teach in the Goizueta Business school and to research determinants of relationship success. I enjoy golf, tennis, and hiking and traveling at present.
My CV
Education
1963 Caroll College, BA in Psychology
1965 Marquette University, MS in Psychology
1968 Purdue University, PhD in Psychology
Positions & Employment
1968-1969 Duke University Medical Center – Clinical Psychology Internship
1969-1973 Assistant Professor, Psychology, Emory University
1973-1979 Associate Professor, Psychology, Emory University
1979-1983 Head of University Counseling Center
1979-1984 Director of Psychological Center
1979-1984 Director of Clinical Psychology Training
1980-1990 Professor of Psychology, Emory University
1990-2011 Named Charles Howard Candler Professor, Emory University
2011- present Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus, Emory University
Honors
1975-1976 Fulbright Research Scholar (Trier University, Germany)
1976-1977 Von Humboldt International Research Scholar (Trier and Munich Universities, Germany)
1979-1980 Fulbright Research Scholar (Munich University, Germany)
1981 Awarded Diplomate in Clinical Psychology
1982 Science Citation Index Award for the 1973 study, “A Locus of Control Scale for children” co-author Bonnie Strickland
1983 Elected to the national governing board of the Association of Directors of Psychology Training Centers
1983 International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement
1983 Science Citation Index Award for the 1974 study, “A Locus of Control Scale for Non-college Adults” co-author Marshall Duke
1984 Founding Fellow in the American Psychological Association, Division 12
1988 Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, Emory College
1989 Fellow in the American Psychological Society
1993 Researcher of the Year: American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology
1997 Benjamin J. Meeker Research Scholar Award, Bristol University, Bristol England.
2000 Leverhulme Visiting Scholar Award, Institute of Child Health, Bristol, England
2001 Pearl S. Rieger Humanitarian Award: Rush Neurobehavior Center, Chicago, Illinois
2001 George Cuttino Mentoring Award: Emory College
2003 Leverhulme Visiting Scholar Award, Institute of Child Health, Bristol, England
2005 Visiting Fellow Award: Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, England
2007 Mentoring Award from the Southeastern Psychological Association.
2009 Senior Class Ring Award, Emory College
2010 Invited lecture: Montpellier Medical School, Montpellier, France
2012 Invited lecture: University of Florence Department of Psychology, Florence, Italy
2012 Heilbrun Research Scholar Award. Emory Emeritus College
2014 Invited lecture: Bristol University Child Study Center, Bristol England.
2015 Templeton Foundation Research Award
