Prof Steven Schwartz's Biography

Prof Steven Schwartz's Professional Career

Career

cmmnd offr and grad fell US Public Health Serv NIH Washington DC 1967-68, clinical psychologist Veteran Admin Hosp Syracuse 1969-70, asst prof Dept of Psychology Northern Illinois Univ DeKalb 1971-75, research scientist Depts of Psychiatry, Community Med and Public Health Univ of Texas Med Branch Galveston 1975-78, sr lectr Dept of Psychology Univ of WA 1978-79, prof and head Dept of Psychology Univ of Qld 1980-90, pres Academic Bd Univ of Qld 1991-93, exec dean Faculty of Med and Dentistry Univ of WA 1994-96, vice-chllr and pres Murdoch Univ 1996-2002, vice-chllr and princ Brunel Univ 2002-06, vice-chllr and pres Macquarie Univ Sydney 2006-; visiting research fell: NATO Brussels 1978, Int Brain Research Orgn Lausanne 1982; visiting prof: Stanford Univ 1983, Dept of Health Policy and Mgmnt Harvard Sch of Public Health 1987; Royal Soc and Australian Acad of Science exchange fell ICRF Labs London 1988, visiting fell Wolfson Coll Oxford 1994, Morris Leibovitz fell Univ of Southern Calif 1995; chair UK Govt Review into HE 2003-04, memb Productive Industries Cmmn GLA 2003-; pres Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Soc 1986-90; memb Bd: Cncl for Int Educn Exchange (CIEE) 1997-, Cncl for Industry and HE 2002-, Fndn for Int Educn 2003-; memb Editorial Bd: Texas Reports in Biology and Med 1976-78, Jl of Research in Personality 1978-90, Applied Psycholinguistics 1980-84, Brain and Cognition 1991-95, Med Decision Making, Australian Autism Review, Jl of Child Clinical Psychology (special ed), The Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Current Psychological Reviews and Reports, Psychological Bulletin; memb: NY Acad of Sciences, Public Health Assoc of Australia, Soc for Med Decision Making, AAAS, Judgement and Decision Making Soc, Int Assoc of Univ Presidents, American Psychological Assoc; Travel Fellowship American Psychological Assoc 1973, Career Scientist Devpt Award NIH 1977, Brain Research Award Br Red Cross Soc 1988, ALIS Award Br Cncl 1988; govr: Henley Mgmnt Coll 2002-, Richmond the American Univ in London 2003-; ambass City of Perth 1999-; fell: Acad of Social Sciences Australia 1991, Australian Inst of Mgmnt 2000, Australian Inst of Co Dirs 2001

Prof Steven Schwartz's Publications

Books and Publications

Human Judgement and Decision Processes (ed with M F Kaplan, 1975), Human Judgement and Decision Processes in Applied Settings (ed with M F Kaplan, 1977), Language and Cognition in Schizophrenia (ed, 1978), Psychopathology of Childhood: An Experimental Approach (with J H Johnson, 1981, revised edn 1985), Measuring Reading Competence (1984), Medical Thinking: The Psychology of Medical Judgement and Decision-Making (with T Griffin, 1986), Classic Studies in Psychology (1986), Pavlov's Heirs (1987), Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology (ed, 1992), Classic Studies in Abnormal Psychology (1993), Abnormal Pscyhology (2000); also author of book chapters, reviews, conf papers, and articles in newspapers, magazines and learned jls

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