Henry L. Roediger, III, is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Dean of Academic Planning at Washington University in St. Louis. He graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Washington & Lee University (1969) and received his Ph.D. from Yale University (1973). Roediger’s research has centered on human learning and memory, and he has published over 200 articles and chapters on various aspects of cognitive processes involved in remembering. His recent research has focused on illusions of memory (how we sometimes remember events differently from the way they actually occurred) and effects of testing memory (how retrieving events from memory can change their representation, often making them more likely to be retrieved in the future). He has published three textbooks that have been through a combined total of 20 editions and he has edited six other books.
Roediger served as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (1985-1989) and was founding editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (1994-1999). He has served as President of the American Psychological Society (2003-2004), Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society (1989-1990), President of the Midwestern Psychological Association (1992-1993), President of Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (1999-2000), and Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (2003-2004). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Education Research Association and the Canadian Psychological Association. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993-1994. In 2003 he was named a “Highly Cited Researcher” by the Institute of Scientific Information, and in 2008 he won the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists. In 2008 he won the Arthur Holley Compton Faculty Achievement Award from Washington University.
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