James Blascovich is Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Barbara, Jim earned his BS in psychology at Loyola University of Chicago (1968) and PhD in social psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno (1972). He held academic positions at the University of Nevada, Reno (72-73), Marquette University (73-80), and SUNY at Buffalo (80-95) before coming to UCSB. He Co-Directs the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior. Jim is a past President of both the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc (Div. 8 of APA), and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He is a Member of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He was awarded the Inaugural Australasian Social Psychology Society/Society of Personality and Social Psychology Teaching Fellowship (2002) and an Erskine Fellowship (2005) at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has also received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research at UCSB (2001). He has served on several grant review panels, was appointed to the National Academy of Science/National Research Council Committee to Evaluate the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph, and Chaired the NAS/NRC Panel on priorities for military research. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and National Science Foundation has continuously funded his research for more than 15 years.
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