Dean's Wedding Photo 3/20/05
Dean Keith Simonton, PhD

Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
 

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RESEARCH
 

Expertise

Genius, creativity, leadership, and aesthetics - the cognitive, dispositional, developmental, and sociocultural factors behind eminence, giftedness, and talent in science, philosophy, literature, music, art, cinema, politics, and war, with the greatest emphasis on scientific genius.

Archival data analysis - cross-cultural, transhistorical, biographical, and content analytical measures, with special stress on the historiometric analyses of eminent personalities, creative products, and notable events.

History of psychology - including analyses from the standpoint of the psychology of science, especially the psychology of distinguished scientists and eminent psychologists.
 

    Publications
431 published or forthcoming; includes the following 12 books:
 
Genius, creativity, and leadership: Historiometric inquiries Harvard University Press 1984 (in print);
Why presidents succeed: A political psychology of leadership Yale University Press 1987 (out of print);
Scientific genius: A psychology of science Cambridge University Press 1988 (in print);
Psychology, science, and history: An introduction to historiometry Yale University Press 1990 (out of print);
Greatness: Who makes history and why Guilford Press 1994 (in print);
Genius and creativity: Selected papers Ablex (Praeger) Publishing 1997 (out of print);
Origins of genius: Darwinian perspectives on creativity Oxford University Press 1999 (in print; ebook);
Great psychologists and their times: Scientific insights into psychology's history American Psychological Association 2002 (in print);
Creativity in science: Chance, logic, genius, and zeitgeist Cambridge University Press 2004 (in print);
Genius 101 Springer Publishing 2009 (in print; ebook);
Great flicks: Scientific studies of cinematic creativity and aesthetics Oxford University Press 2011 (in print; ebook);
The social science of cinema (with J. C. Kaufman, co-editor) Oxford University Press 2012 (in press);

also 99 book chapters (29 in handbooks) and 36 entries in 19 encyclopedias;
plus 147 journal articles and 137 editorials, commentaries, replies, book/film reviews, interviews, etc. in 114 periodicals, including:

Psychological Review (3), Psychological Bulletin (5), Psychological Methods (1), American Psychologist (3), Review of General Psychology (7), Annual Review of Psychology (1), Perspectives on Psychological Science (4), Psychological Science (1), Current Directions in Psychological Science (1), Psychological Inquiry (6), International Journal of Psychology (2), American Journal of Psychology (2), The Psychologist (1), Pszichológia (2), Bulletin de Psychologie (1), New Ideas in Psychology (1), Teaching of Psychology (2), Contemporary Psychology /PsycCRITIQUES (31), The General Psychologist (2), Monitor on Psychology (1), The National Psychologist (1), Psych-Talk (1), North American Journal of Psychology (1), Psychological Reports (2), Advances in Psychology Research (1); Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (20), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (1), Social and Personality Compass (1), Social Behavior and Personality (5), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (1), European Review of Social Psychology (1), Journal of Social Psychology  (1), Journal of Applied Social Psychology (1), Psychology and Marketing (1), Journal of Personality (7); Developmental Psychology (1), Developmental Review (2), Annals of Child Development (1), Psychology and Aging (1), International Journal of Aging and Human Development (3), Genetic Psychology Monographs (1), Gerontologist (1), Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging (1); History of Psychology (1), Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (2); Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (1); Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (3); Sex Roles (3), Social Forces (1), Social Science Quarterly (1), Behavior Science Research (1); Political Psychology (6), Leadership Quarterly (3), Political Behavior (1), Presidential Studies Quarterly (1); Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (9), Creativity Research Journal (13), Journal of Creative Behavior (10); Gifted Child Quarterly (2), Roeper Review: A Journal on Gifted Education (2), Journal for the Education of the Gifted (1), High Ability Studies (2), Gifted and Talented International (2), Mensa Research Journal (1); Scientometrics (4), Social Studies of Science (3), Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society (2), Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology (1), Kexue Xue Yu Kezue Jishu Guanli (1); Empirical Studies of the Arts (9), Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts (2), Psychology of Popular Media Culture (1), Poetics (2), Computers and the Humanities (1); Psychology of Music (2), Music Perception (1); Perception (1); Psychiatric Times (2), Behaviour Research and Therapy (1), Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought (1), Clio’s Psyche (2), Los Angeles Psychologist (1), Applied & Preventive Psychology: Current Scientific Perspectives (1); Journal of Vocational Behavior (2), Administrative Science Quarterly (1), Management and Organization Review (1); Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (1), Comparative Civilizations Review (1); Research in Multi-Level Issues (1); Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1); JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association (2), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (1), Quarterly Review of Biology (1), Behavioral and Brain Sciences (5), Politics and the Life Sciences (1), Journal of Social and Biological Structures (1), Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience (1), The Scientist (1); Physics of Life Reviews (3), Czechoslovak Journal of Physics (1); IEEE Potentials (1); and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) (1).
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Recognition

Research Career Awards:

Sir Francis Galton Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Study of Creativity, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA, 1996);
Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement, Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, Division 10 - APA (1996);
President's Award, National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC, 2007);
E. Paul Torrance Award, Creativity Network, NAGC (2010).

Research Publication Awards:

William James Book Award, Society for General Psychology, Division 1 - American Psychological Association (APA, 2000);
George A. Miller Outstanding Article Award, Society for General Psychology, Division 1 - APA (1997);
Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Division 8 - APA (2004);
Award for Excellence in Research, Mensa Education & Research Foundation and Mensa International, Ltd. (with A. V. Song; 2011);
Award for Excellence in Research, Mensa Education & Research Foundation and Mensa International, Ltd. (2009);
Award for Excellence in Research, Mensa Education & Research Foundation (1986);
Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Honorable Mention, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9 - APA (1997).

Scientific Society Presidencies:

President, Society for General Psychology, Division 1 - APA (2011-12);
President, Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, Division 10 - APA (1985-86);
President, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (1998-2000).

Scientific Society Fellow Elections:

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998);
Fellow, American Psychological Association (1983), 10 Divisions:
      1 - Society for General Psychology (1995);
      5 - Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics (2002);
      7 - Developmental Psychology (2000);
      8 - Society for Personality and Social Psychology (1988);
      9 - Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (1989);
    10 - Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (1983);
    20 - Adult Development and Aging (1994);
    24 - Society for Philosophical and Theoretical Psychology (2006);
    46 - Media Psychology (2011); see below for 2 - Society for the Teaching of Psychology;
Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (1989);
Fellow, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (1998);
Fellow, Western Psychological Association (2010);
Charter Fellow, American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology (1992).

Other Research Honors:

Master Lecturer, Personality and Individual Differences, Board of Scientific Affairs, APA (2009);
Esther Katz Rosen Fund Lecture on Gifted Children, American Psychological Foundation (1994);
Member, Sigma Xi (National Scientific Research Society, 1987);
UC Davis Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement (1994);
Fellow, National Science Foundation (1970-1972).

Google Scholar Citations (details; caveats):

Total citations: 9818 (since 1975; 4338, or 44%, since 2007; 1094 in 2009 alone);
i10-index: 163 = the number of publications with 10 or more citations (110 >= 20; 21 > 100; 10 > 200; 4 > 500);
h-index: 47 = the largest number h such that these h publications have h or more citations (= 30 since 2007 only).

 
Membership
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow);
American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology (Fellow);
American Psychological Association (Fellow in Divisions 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 24 and 46; Member in 26);
Association for Psychological Science (Fellow);
Western Psychological Association (Fellow);
International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (Fellow);
International Society of Political Psychology;
Sigma Xi.
  Presentations Societies - Council of Scientific Society Presidents, International Congress of Psychology, International Congress of Applied Psychology, International Centre for Innovation in Education, International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, International Society of Political Psychology, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology, Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología, International Leadership Association, International Society for Intelligence Research, Max Planck Society, History of Science Society, Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics, World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, Association for Psychological Science, Canadian Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, American Political Science Association, American Sociological Association, American Educational Research Association, Gerontological Society of America, National Association for Gifted Children, Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Western Psychological Association, Southwestern Psychological Association;

Universities - Harvard (Business Administration, Education, Psychology), Yale, Pennsylvania, Stanford, California (Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz), Michigan, Göttingen, British Columbia (Green College, Psychology), Pittsburgh, USC (Music, International Studies), NYU, National Defense, Florida State, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada (Reno), Alabama, Alaska, San José State; Colleges - Occidental, Carleton, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer; Medical College of Wisconsin;

Institutions - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, National Academy of the Sciences, World Science Festival, National Bureau of Economic Research, Santa Fe Institute, European Science Days, Commonwealth Club, Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milken Family Foundation, Belin National Center for Gifted Education, Center for Creative Leadership, Creative Education Foundation, Positive Psychology Center, Torrance Center, Cleveland Clinic.

 
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TEACHING
 

Awards and Achievements

Robert S. Daniel Award for Four Year College/University Teaching, Division 2 - Society for the Teaching of Psychology, APA (2006) [photo/citation];
UC Davis Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, UC Davis Foundation (1994);
Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate of the University of California (Davis Division, 2000);
Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, University of California, Davis (Associated Students of UC Davis, 1979);
Fellow, Division 2 - Society for the Teaching of Psychology, APA (1997);
Nominations, U.S. Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1997-98);
Forum on Exemplary Teaching, American Association for Higher Education (1994);
Endowed Simonton Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research bestowed annually at commencement (1995);
Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Service as Psi Chi Faculty Advisor, Davis Chapter (1994);
Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honorary Society (1991);
Finalist, Distinguished Teaching Award, Davis Division of the Academic Senate, University of California (1981);
Fellow, Danforth Foundation (1970-74).
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    Student Evaluations

    (5-Point Scale; 1987-2011; N = 73)
     

     
    Course
    151
    175
    185
    204b
    220
    Maximum
    4.90
    4.90
    5.00
    5.00
    5.00
    Mean
    4.76
    4.82
    4.88
    4.75
    4.80
    Median
    4.75
    4.80
    4.90
    4.80
    4.80
    Mode
    4.70
    4.90
    4.90
    4.70
    -
    Minimum
    4.70
    4.50
    4.70
    4.20
    4.60
      N
    8
    22
    23
    17
    3

    N.B.: These are for the scale item "My instructor is an excellent teacher, overall" or equivalent.  Excludes all undergraduate/graduate seminars with qualitative ratings.
     


    ASUCD's Student Viewpoint Evaluations
     

    Course Websites

     
    PSC Title Type Years
    151 Social Psychology Upper-division undergraduate survey course 1976-1999 (1)
    175 Genius, Creativity, and Leadership General Education: Social Sciences - Writing experience 1991-2011 (2)
    185 History of Psychology Capstone course in undergraduate major 1989-2010 (2)
    204B Causal Modeling of Correlational Data Second course in first-year graduate statistics series 1993-2009 (1)
    220 History of Psychology Graduate breadth lecture-seminar 1995-2011 (3)
    390 The Teaching of Psychology Professional course 2012-2013 (2)

    (1) No longer taught since the latest year indicated, but still covered by other departmental faculty members (for whom, go here).
    (2) Except when on sabbatical or administrative leave, usually offered once per year.
    (3) Since the abolition of identified breadth courses for students entering the graduate program in fall 2011, this seminar will only be offered if there is enough student demand that is specified sufficiently in advance.
     

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    SERVICE
     

    Professional Service

    Special Honor: Farnsworth Award for Outstanding Service to the Society for Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, APA Division 10 (2011).

    Elected Offices:

    President, Society for General Psychology, APA Division 1 (2011-12);
    President, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (1998-2000);
    President, Society for Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, APA Division 10 (1985-86);
    Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, APA Division 10 (1980-82).

    Journal Editor: Journal of Creative Behavior (1993-99).

    Journal Guest Editor:

    Leadership Quarterly (two-part Special Issue on "Political Leadership," 1996-98);
    Review of General Psychology (Special Issue on "Positive Psychology," with R. F. Baumeister, 2003-04).

    Journal Associate Editor: Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology (2007-09).

    Editorial Boards:

    Journals: Review of General Psychology (1998-present), Perspectives on Psychological Science (2007-10), Journal of Personality (1985-93), Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (2006-present), Creativity Research Journal (1988-present), Journal of Creative Behavior (1999-present), International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving (2008-present), Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving (2002-08), Empirical Studies of the Arts (1994-present), Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts (2001-06), Political Psychology (1997-2005), Leadership Quarterly (1998-2001), the Oxfordian (2005-07), PsycCRITIQUES (2006-present), Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2007-present), Psychology of Popular Media Culture (2011-present).

    Book series:
    Expertise: Research and Applications (Routledge, formerly Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995-2009).

    Executive Advisory Boards: Encyclopedia of Creativity, Academic Press (1996-1999); Encyclopedia of Creativity, Elsevier (2nd ed., 2009-11)

    Publisher Advisory Boards:

    Oxford Guide to Creativity Research Methodology, Oxford University Press (2004-09);
    History and Systems in Psychology, Oxford University Press (2006-09);
    Education, Creativity, and Social Development, East China Normal University Press (2010-present).

    Publications Committee: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (APA Division 10; 2003-07).

    Corresponding Associate Commentator: Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1990ff).

    Reviewer:

    Organizations (52 evaluations / 18 organizations): National Science Foundation (19), John Templeton Foundation (7), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (6), Guggenheim Foundation (3), European Science Foundation (2), Research Grants Council (Hong Kong, China; 2), National Endowment for the Humanities, National Research Council (The National Academies), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Sloan Foundation, Spencer Foundation, National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, APA Program Committees (Divisions 5, 8, 10), Hampton Research Grants Programme, France-Berkeley Fund; Ohio State University Seed Grant Program, Jackson State University Center for University Scholars, APA Student Travel Award Program.

    Publishers (92 evaluations / 29 publishers): Lawrence Erlbaum (15), Oxford University Press (14), Academic Press (10), Cambridge University Press (9), Elsevier (6), Sage Publications (4), Guilford Press (3), Psychology Press (3), Brooks/Cole (2), Freeman (2), Harvard University Press (2), Kluwer Academic Publishers (2), Prentice-Hall (2), Springer (2), Westview (2), Allyn & Bacon, APA Books, Basic Books, Edward Elgar, Greenwood Press, Harcourt Brace Janovich, Harvard Business School Press, Jossey-Bass, Palgrave Macmillan, Princeton University Press, Taylor & Francis, Wadsworth, Wiley, Worth.

    Journals (618 evaluations / 133 journals): Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (64); Review of General Psychology (42); Journal of Creative Behavior (36); Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (32); Political Psychology (28); Journal of Personality (25); Creativity Research Journal (22); Psychological Bulletin (22); Leadership Quarterly (21); Empirical Studies of the Arts (14); Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (14); American Psychologist (12); Psychological Science (12); Psychological Review (11); Multivariate Behavioral Research (10); Personality and Individual Differences (10); IEEE Spectrum (9); Psychology and Aging (9); Psychology of Music (7); Developmental Psychology (6); Developmental Review (6); Gerontologist (6); International Journal of Aging and Human Development (6); Music Perception (6); Perspectives on Psychological Science (6); Sex Roles (6); Journal of Applied Social Psychology (5); Social Studies of Science (5); Behavioral Science (4); British Journal of Psychology (4); High Ability Studies (4); International Journal of Psychology (4); Journal of Cultural Economics (4); Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving (4); New Ideas in Psychology (4); Personality and Social Psychology Review (4); Poetics (4); Current Directions in Psychological Science (3); International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving (3); Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology (3); The Oxfordian (3); Perceptual and Motor Skills (3); Philosophical Psychology (3); Political Research Quarterly (3); Psychological Reports (3); Synthese (3); Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2); Child Development (2); Cognitive Development (2); Cognitive Science (2); Comparative Civilizations Review (2); Consciousness and Cognition (2); Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (2); History of Psychology (2); Human Performance (2); Intelligence (2); Journal for the Education of the Gifted (2); Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (2); Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (2); Journal of Research in Personality (2); Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences (2); Omega: Journal of Death and Dying (2); Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2); Psychological Inquiries (2); Social Forces (2); Social Psychology Quarterly (2); Acta Biotheoretica; Administrative Science Quarterly; American Bar Foundation Research Journal; American Journal of Psychology; American Political Science Review; Animal Cognition; Appetite; Assessment; Basic and Applied Social Psychology; Behavior Genetics; Behavior Science Research; Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science; Cognition and Emotion; Cognitive Psychology; Complexity; Computers and the Humanities; Configurations; Cultural Trends; Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research; Decision Sciences; Developmental Science; The Economic Journal; Educational Psychology Review; European Journal of Neurology; Evaluation and Program Planning; History of Science; Human Development; Human Relations; IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; International Journal of Behavioral Development; International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching; International Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Family Psychology; Journal of Gerontology; Journal of Positive Psychology; Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services; Journal of Sports Sciences; Learning and Individual Differences; Leonardo; Life Span Development and Behavior; Methods; Mind, Brain, and Education; Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy; Musicae Scientiae; New Media & Society; PLoS ONE; Population and Development Review; Psychological Methods; Psychology of Popular Media Culture; Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Research Policy; Science; Scientometrics; Social Psychological and Personality Science; Social Behavior and Personality; Social Science Quarterly; Sociological Methods and Research; South African Journal of Art History; Sports Medicine; Theory & Psychology.

    Committees: Chair, William James Book Award, APA Division 1 (2011), Chair, Robert S. Daniel Award for Four Year College/University Teaching, APA Division 2, APA (2008); Chair, Program, APA Division 10 (1984); Member, Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology, APA Division 1 (2011); Member, Robert S. Daniel Award for Four Year College/University Teaching, APA Division 2 (2007); Member, McKeachie Graduate Student Award, APA Division 2 (2007); Member, Wayne Weiten Teaching Excellence Award for 2-year Colleges, APA Division 2 (2009); Member, Mary Margaret Moffett Memorial Teaching Excellence Award for High School, APA Division 2 (2010);Member, Fellow Nomination Committee, APA Division 10 (1999-2000, 2003-04); Member, C. Alan Boneau Award for Outstanding Service, APA Division 1 (2011); Member, Awards Committee, APA Division 10 (2004-05); Member, Fellow Nomination Committee, IAEA (2003-04); Member, Program Committee APA Division 10 (2002-03); Member, Advisory Board, International Association of Empirical Aesthetics meeting, Lisbon, Portugal (2003-04); Member, Executive Committee, International Congress on Creativity and Psychology of the Arts, Perm, Russia (2003-05); Member, Program Committee, Computational Creativity Workshop at the 7th European Conference in Case-Based Reasoning, Madrid, Spain (2003-04); Honorary Advisor, Center for Creativity and Innovation Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; Distinguished Consulting Faculty, Saybrook University.

    Consultant: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, Belgium; National Defense University, Department of Defense, Washington, DC; California Youth Authority, Sacramento; Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC; Creative Problem Solving Institute, Buffalo, NY; Arvin Perlmutter, Inc.; Milken Family Foundation; Student Achievement and Advocacy Service Corporation; Templeton Foundation.

     
    Academic Service
    University of California, System-Wide:

    Member, Committee on Academic Personnel.

    University of California, Davis Campus:

    Committee Chair: Academic Personnel; Distinguished Teaching Awards; Arts and Lectures; Teaching Excellence and Merit; Davis Honors Challenge Administrative Review Committee.

    Committee Member: Academic Personnel; Academic Personnel Appellate; Academic Planning Council; Academic Senate Executive Council; Executive Council Advisory Group; Distinguished Teaching Awards; Teaching; UC Davis Prize; Registration Fee; Computing Administrative Advisory; Arts and Lectures; Center for Performing Arts Program Planning; Emeriti; Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship Advisory; Courses and Bylaws Subcommittee of the Graduate Council; Child Care; Human Subjects; Sub Work Group on Retention; Search for Director of Teaching Resources Center; Institute for Governmental Affairs; Chancellor's UCD 75th Anniversary Celebration Advisory Council; Program Review (Statistics; Rhetoric and Communication); Winslow and Gilhooly Award Selection; Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowships.

    President, Kappa Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa; Liaison Officer, Danforth Foundation; Participant, Recorder, or Discussion Leader: Chancellor's Fall Conferences; Member, Human Development and Statistics Graduate Groups; Faculty Advisor, Epsilon Sigma Rho (Multicultural Fraternity).

    College of Letters and Sciences:

    Chair of the Faculty, for the Executive Committee and Representative Assembly; Vice-Chair of the Faculty;

    Committee Chair: College Personnel; Nominations and Elections.

    Committee Member: College Personnel; Educational Policy; Courses of Instruction; Nominations and Elections; Search, Executive Associate Dean; Search, Associate Dean of Academic Personnel; Undergraduate Computing Lab Workgroup for the Division of Social Sciences; Task Force to Review the Composition Requirement.

    Commencement Speaker for the 1994 Graduation Ceremonies; Faculty Coordinator, Fulmor Scholarship Program; Advisor, Education Abroad Program.

    Department of Psychology:

    Departmental Vice-Chair;

    Committee Chair: Undergraduate Advising and Student-Faculty Liaison; Undergraduate Honors Advisor; Undergraduate Curriculum; Graduate Advising; Search for Social Psychologist; Search for Quantitative Psychologist.

    Committee Member: Graduate Admissions; Computer; Equipment; Search Committees.

    Faculty Graduate Advisor; Undergraduate Honors Advisor; Faculty Sponsor, Psi Chi (National Honorary Society); Master Advisor.

    Representative: Representative Assembly of the Academic Senate; College Assembly of Letters and Science.

     
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    CONTACT INFORMATION Office Phone: 530-752-1677

    FAX: 530-752-2087

    Electronic Mail Address: dksimonton@ucdavis.edu

    Postal Mail Address:

    Department of Psychology
    One Shields Avenue
    University of California, Davis
    Davis, CA 95616-8686
    USA

    Departmental Office: 102D Young Hall

    Office Hours (Winter Quarter 2012):

    MW 2-3 (or by appointment)

     
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    BIOGRAPHICAL DATA Born:

    January 27, 1948, Glendale, CA (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area)
     

    Ancestry:

    Scottish, English, Serbian, and French-Canadian (i.e., Gàidhlig, West Germanic, South Slavic, and Gallo Romance)
     

    Education:
     
     
    Occidental College B.A. 1970 Psychology  
    Harvard University M.A. 1973 Social Psychology  
    Harvard University Ph.D. 1975 Social Psychology  

    N.B.: Actually, the M.A. and Ph.D. are both written entirely in Latin, and hence the degrees were not really in "social psychology" but rather in some obscure Latin translation.


    Academic Positions:

    2004 Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis (to present; Above Scale III in UC System; go here);
    1985 Professor, University of California, Davis (to 2004);
    1985 Visiting Research Psychologist, Institute for Personality Assessment and Research, University of California, Berkeley;
    1980 Associate Professor, University of California, Davis (to 1985);
    1976 Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis (to 1980);
    1974 Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas (to 1976);
    1971 Teaching Fellow, Introductory Psychology and Social Psychology, Harvard University (to 1973);
    1969 Section Leader, History of Civilization, Occidental College (to 1970).


    Scholastic Awards and Achievements:

    HARVARD UNIVERSITY:
    Doctoral General Exams passed “with Distinction” (top in class, 1972);
    Fellow, National Science Foundation (1970-72);
    Fellow, Danforth Foundation (1970-74).

    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE:
    Phi Beta Kappa (1970);
    Magna Cum Laude (High Honors in Psychology, 1970);
    Psi Chi (National Honorary Psychology Society, 1969);
    99+ Percentile on Graduate Record Examination Psychology Subject Test (1969);
    Arnston Memorial Award for essay contest regarding “Man’s Place and Function in the Universe” (1969);
    College Scholar (1967-70);
    California State Scholarship (1966-70).

    JOHN H. FRANCIS POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL:
    Salutatorian (second highest GPA in mid-year graduating class of 256 students, 1966);
    Three Special Awards (top in mid-year graduating class) for Science, Social Studies, and English (1966);
    Ephebian Society (Los Angeles metropolitan society honoring character, leadership, community service, and scholastic achievement, 1966);
    Self-Government Award (1966);
    Seal Bearer (Lifetime Member, California Scholarship Federation, 1966);
    Scholar Quiz Award (won televised competition for Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, 1965);
    Team Captain, Knowledge Bowl Team (1965);
    Member, California Scholarship Federation (1964-66).

    RICHARD E. BYRD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL:
    Graduation Speaker on theme “Light the Path to Knowledge” (1963);
    Two Awards of Merit (top in mid-year graduating class) for Science and Social Studies (1963);
    Sextants (Scholarship Society, 1962-63);
    Junior Research Science (Los Angeles metropolitan summer program for scientific talent, 1962).
     

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