Director
Kurt Salzinger, Ph.D.
(2011–2014)
Hofstra University
Kurt Salzinger, Ph.D. is Senior Scholar in Residence at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. He was Executive Director for Science at the American Psychological Association, President of the New York Academy of Sciences, member of the Board of Directors of APA, President of Divisions 1 (General Psychology) and 25 (Behavior Analysis), and of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, Chair of the Board of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, program officer at the National Science Foundation, professor of psychology at Hofstra University and Polytechnic University of New York, and Principal Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was the recipient of the NSF Sustained Superior Performance Award, the Stratton Award from the American Psychopathological Association; he received the Most Meritorious Article Award from the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. He was also Presidential Scholar for the Association for Behavior Analysis and he is listed in Who's Who in America. He is author or editor of 12 books, over 140 articles and book chapters, and of 23 columns. He has done research on the behavior of human beings, dogs, rats, and goldfish, schizophrenia, verbal behavior of children and adults and history of psychology.