CURRICULUM VITAE: (status Autumn 2016)
Siegfried Streufert, Ph.D.
e-mail: [email protected]
Birth: 1934, Berlin, Germany.
Education:
A.B. in Sociology and Social Science, June 1958, Southern Methodist University,
M.A. in Psychology, January 1960, Southern Methodist University,
Ph.D. in Experimental (Social) Psychology, May 1962, Princeton University.
Professional Experience:
Research Assistant, Princeton University, 1960 – 1962,
Research Associate, Princeton University, 1962 – 1964,
Lecturer, Princeton and Rutgers Universities, 1963 – 1964,
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, 1964 – 1967,
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychological Sciences, Purdue
University, 1967 – 70,
Professor and Head, Social Psychology and Personality
Program, Dept. of Psychological Sciences, Purdue
University, 1970 – 1975,
Visiting Professor, University of Mannheim, Germany, 1973,
Research Member, Special Research Area (SFB),
University of Mannheim, 1976 -70,
Chair Professor, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Dept. of
Psychology, 1974 -79,
Resident Scholar, National Institutes of Health, 1978 – 1979,
Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences,
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine,
1979 – 2001, and Department of Psychology, 1984 to 2002,
Professor Emeritus 2001 to present.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science,
State University of New York, Upstate Medical University,
Syracuse, N.Y., 2001 to 2010.
Membership in Professional Societies:
American Psychological Association (Divisions 8, 13, 14, 20, 24, and 38),
American Psychological Society,
American Management Associations,
American Academy of Political and Social Science,
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie,
International Association of Applied Psychology,
Society for Experimental Social Psychology,
Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research,
Society for Behavioral Medicine,
Institute of Management Sciences.
Honors:
ARPA award, 1968,
Election to Fellow status, American Psychological Association,
Election to Fellow status, American Psychological Society,
Election to Fellow status, Society for Behavioral Medicine,
Election to Society for Experimental Social Psychology,
Election to European Association for Experimental
Social Psychology,
Election to Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research.
Editorial Activities:
Founding Editor, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1970 – 1982,
Editor, book series, Winston and John Wiley,
Editorial Boards:
Progress in Applied Social Psychology,
Applied Social Psychology Annual,
British Journal of Clinical and Social Psychology, Health Psychology,
Consultant/Reviewer to various Journals and Publishers.
Other Professional Activities:
Member of various national and international panels
(for review of research proposals) in the U.S.A., Germany
and Canada,
Member of selection panels for international exchange of
professionals (Germany),
National Advisory Council, German Academic Exchange Service,
Consultant to various corporations, research organizations, to service organizations, universities and government agencies,
Expert witness in court cases,
Member and chairperson of various university administrative and parliamentary groups, including university senate,
Organizer and chairperson of international conferences.
Administrative Activities:
Head, Social Psychology and Personality Area, Purdue University.
Chair Professor, Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
with responsibility to start and staff a new department with a strong research orientation, involving direct negotiations (for funds,
equipment, personnel, level of professional staff, salaries,
research space, rules and regulations covering scientific activities, teaching loads, degree requirements, etc.) with the State Government (State Secretary for Science and Research, State of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.)
Member of the National Advisory Council, German Academic Exchange
Service involving, among others, the development of policy decisions
for that agency.
Acting Chairperson at various times (e.g. sabbatical absence of the chairman), Department of Behavioral Science, Penn State College of Medicine.
Areas of Published Theory and Research:
1. Attitudes, interpersonal perception, attributions of causality/responsibility and other aspects of interpersonal behavior.
2. Problem solving, decision making, risk taking, group and team effectiveness and other aspects of managerial functioning, executive assessment, training toward improved managerial performance.
3. The impact of stylistic and personality variables including (among others) cognitive complexity, creativity, cognitive motivation, incongruity adaptation and related variables.
4. Psychological aspects of economic and political behavior, inter-group and inter-organizational conflict, executive and organizational functioning, problems of organizations and society.
5. Effects of environmental and/or work stress upon task performance, job satisfaction, physiological (e.g. cardiovascular) response, morbidity and mortality.
6. Effects of prescription, over-the-counter, recreational and illegal drugs upon physiological and behavioral variables in clinical, work place and daily life settings; other variables relating medical and pharmacological treatment to quality of life.
7. The impact of aging on human effectiveness across tasks, impact of drug treatment on the aging individual, training intervention toward improved quality of life in the aging individual.
8. Research, assessment and training methodologies including simulations, experimental and applied research methods, evaluation, controlled training techniques, improvement of effectiveness in executives, governmental, military and security personnel.
9. Effects of head trauma on real-world functioning; use of simulation technology toward assessment and rehabilitation of executive functions.
10. Training of medical personnel in decision making and medical error reduction.
Research Support:
Continuous research support (from small grants and contracts to multi-million Dollar research support (e.g., from the National Institutes of Health, DOD, various corporations) throughout the academic career from Rutgers University through the Professorship at Penn State College of Medicine.
If you want to continue reading the titles of Dr. Streufert’s publications, please click on “Next Page.” If you wish to select
which entry into this site you want to look at next, please click on “Return to Glossary.”
next page
Return to Glossary