History of the Research Fair
Previous Keynote Speakers:
- 1994 Mark Snyder, University of Minnesota - The Psychology of Stereotypes, Prejudice
and Discrimination
- 1995 Nancy Adler, University of California, San Francisc - Adolescent Decision Making
and Contraception Use
- 1996 Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University - On the Psychology of Evil: How to Seduce
Good Folks to do Bad Things
- 1997 Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco - Why Don鈥檛 We Catch Liars?
- 1998 Larry Squire, University of California, San Diego - Memory and the Brain
- 1999 Elizabeth Loftus, University of Washington - Creating False Memories
- 2000 Marc Schuckit, University of California, San Diego - A 20 Year Prospective Study
of Children of Alcoholics
- 2001 Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University - The Power of Persuasion
- 2002 Robert Rosenthal, University of California, Riverside - Interpersonal Expectations
and Nonverbal Behavior
- 2003 Claude Steele, Stanford University - The Contingencies of Social Identity
- 2004 Ebbe Ebbeson, University of California, San Diego - Psychology and the Law
- 2005 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Claremont Graduate University - The Creative Person
and the Creative Context
- 2006 Diane Halpern, Claremont McKenna - Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities
- 2007 Ross Parke, University of California, Riverside - Fatherhood: Remembering the
Past and Imagining the Future
- 2008 Christina Maslach, University of California, Berkeley - Research Adventures
in Job Burnout
- 2009 Jean Twenge, San Diego State University - Generation Me: Why Today鈥檚 Young Americans
are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable than Ever Before
- 2010 Michael Hogg, Claremont Graduate University - The Trouble with Identity: How
Uncertainty Breeds Extremism
- 2011 Steven Hayes, University of Nevada, Reno - The Importance of Psychological Flexibility
- 2012 Paul Abramson, University of California, Los Angeles - Smells Like Teen Spirit:
The Conundrum of Kids, Sex, and the Law
- 2013 Howard Friedman, University of California, Riverside - Healthy Models and Pathways
to Longevity
- 2014 Sylvia Hurtado, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles - Success in STEM: Recent
Research at Different Stages of the Pipeline
- 2015 Jonathan Schooler, University of California, Santa Barbara - The Three "R"s
of Mind-wandering: Ramifications, Rewards, and Regulation
- 2017 John Elder, San Diego State University - Child Obesity and the Hispanic Health
Paradox
- 2018 John Wixted, Univerity of California, San Diego
- 2019 Bella DePaulo, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2021 Roxane Cohen Silver, University of California, Irvine
- 2022 Paul Piff, University of California, Irvine
- 2023 Franki Kung, Purdue University
- 2024 Lacie Barber, San Diego State University