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The Allen L. Edwards Lectureship

Professor Allen Edwards was affiliated with the University of Washington Department of Psychology for half of a century, from his arrival in Seattle in 1944 as an Associate Professor to his death in 1994. Edwards was an outstanding teacher, researcher, and writer who is credited with changing the way modern psychological research is conducted by introducing modern statistical techniques into the science. Three of his seven books are considered landmarks in the field.

Edwards is also known for developing personality tests, in particular the Edwards Personality Inventory, which was designed to eliminate the test-taker's bias toward socially desirable answers. Edwards endowed the Edwards Lectureship to bring nationally and internationally renowned psychologists to campus for short visits to interact with faculty and students. The first Edwards Lecture was delivered by by Professor Mark Pagel of University of Reading, England, on May 24, 1999. Pagel was a student of Edwards and holds a Ph.D. degree from the UW Psychology department. Since the inaugural Edwards Lecture, we have hosted an impressive list of distinguished speakers.

1999

David Barlow, Boston University
Mark Seidenberg, University of Southern California
Daryl Bem, Stanford
Judith Dunn, Institute of Psychiatry - London
C. Neil Macrae, University of Bristol
Ivan Miller, Brown University
William Follette, University of Reno
Mark Pagel, University of Reading - UK

2000

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Gary Klein, Klein Associates
George Gamboa, Oakland University - Rochester, MI
Ann Masten, University of Minnesota
Tory Higgins, Columbia University
David Hamilton, UC - Santa Barbara
Steve Lindsay, University of Victoria
Derek Bickerton, University of Hawaii-Honolulu
Terry Deacon, Boston University
John Bargh, NYU

2001

Mary Rothbart, University of Oregon
Sir Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry - London, UK
Mahzarin Banaji, Yale University
Keith Holyoak, UCLA
Edna Foa, University of Pennsylvania
Donald Kroodsma, University of Massachusetts
Alfredo Kirkwood, The Johns Hopkins University
David Sherman, UCLA

2002

Stephen Hinshaw, UC-Berkeley
Gail Patricelli, University of Maryland
Roy Baumeister, Case Western Reserve University
Curtis Bell, Neurological Sciences Institute, Beaverton, OR
Warren Holmes, University of Oregon
Richard G. M. Morris, University of Edinburgh
Daniel M. Wegner, Harvard
Albert Bandura, Stanford
Yavin Shaham, National Institute of Drug Abuse
Tom Borkovec, Pennsylvania State University
Carolyn Cowan, UC-Berkeley
David Crews, University of Texas at Austin
Michael Tomasello, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Herbert Quay, Florida State University

2003

Jerome Kagan, Harvard
Nancy Kanwisher, MIT
Patricia Devine, University of Wisconsin
Lynne Houck, Oregon State University
Robert Bjork, UCLA
Brian Wandell, Stanford
Lawrence Parsons, University of Texas Health Science Center
Nancy Gonzales, University of Arizona

2004

Megan Gunnar, University of Minnesota
Robert Sternberg, Yale University
Elena Grigorenko, Yale University
Michael Ryan, University of Texas
Ed Diener, University of Illinois
Steven C. Hayes, University of Nevada
Michael Lewis, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Stanley Sue, University of California-Davis
Susan Fiske, Princeton Unversity
Margaret Beal Spencer, University of Pennsylvania

2005

Peter Slater, University of St. Andrews, UK
Geoffrey Boynton, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Keith Whitfield, Pennsylvania State University
John Cacioppo, University of Chicago
Issac Marks , University of London

2006

Joseph Trimble, Western Washington University
Richard Bryant, University of New South Wales
Susan Tapert, University of California-San Diego
Judy Auerbach, amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
Alan Kamil, University of Nebraska
Walter Mischel, Columbia University
John Serences, Salk Institute for Biological Studies