Henry L. Roediger, III

Henry L. Roediger, III is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Psychology and Dean of Academic Planning. He came to Washington University in 1996 as Chair of the Psychology Department and served until 2004, when he became Dean of Academic Planning. Roediger received a B.A. degree in psychology from Washington and Lee University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Yale University in 1973. He has previously taught at Purdue University, the University of Toronto, and Rice University, where he served as the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Psychology.

Roediger’s research is concerned with human learning and memory. He has published over 200 articles, chapters, and reviews. He has co-authored three textbooks that have been through a combined 19 editions: Psychology, 4th edition, Research Methods in Psychology, 8th edition, and Experimental Psychology: Understanding Psychological Research, 9th edition. In addition, he has edited or co-edited 7 scholarly books.

Dr. Roediger served as editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition (1984-1989) and was founding editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (1994-1997) He currently serves as a consulting editor for 10 journals, as well as advisory editor for Psychology Press.

Roediger has served as President of the Association of Psychological Science, President of the Experimental Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and President of the Midwestern Psychological Association. He was a member of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society for 5 years and its Chair for 1989 -1990. In 1994, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the Society of Experimental Psychology. In 2003 he was named a “highly cited researcher” by the Institute of Scientific Information. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. In 2008 he won the Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists for his research on false memory.