ROBERT J. STERNBERG

Robert J. Sternberg is IBM Professor of Psychology and Education and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale. This Center is dedicated to the advancement of theory, research, practice, and policy advancing the notion of intelligence as developing expertise-as a construct that is modifiable and capable, to some extent, of development throughout the life span. Dr. Sternberg is the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Sternberg is the author of over 900 journal articles, book chapters, and books. The central focus of his research is on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and he also has studied love and close relationships as well as hate. Dr. Sternberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Yale University Senior and Junior Faculty Fellowships as well as an NSF Graduate Fellowship. He also has held the Honored Visitor Fellowship of the Taiwan National Science Council and the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Visiting Professorship of the City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Sternberg received the Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1975 and the B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University in 1972. He also holds honorary doctorates from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; the University of Leuven, Belgium; the University of Cyprus; and the University of Paris V, France.