History of the Research Fair

1994

Mark Snyder 

The Psychology of Stereotypes, Prejudice, & Discrimination

UC San Francisco 

1995

Nancy Adler 

Adolescent Decision Making and Contraceptive Use

UC San Francisco 

1996

Phil Zimbardo 

On the Psychology of Evil: How to Seduce Good Folks to do Bad Things 

Stanford University 

1997

Paul Ekman 

Why Don’t We Catch Liars? 

UC San Francisco 

1998

Larry Squire 

Memory and the Brain 

UC San Diego 

1999

Elizabeth Loftus 

Creating False Memories 

University of Washington 

2000

Marc Schuckit 

A 20 Year Prospective Study of Children of Alcoholics 

UC San Diego 

2001

Robert Cialdini 

The Power of Persuasion 

Arizona State University 

2002

Robert Rosenthal 

Interpersonal Expectations and Nonverbal Behavior 

UC Riverside 

2003

Claude Steele 

The Contingencies of Social Identity 

Stanford University 

2004

Ebbe Ebbesen 

Psychology and the Law 

UC San Diego 

2005

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 

The Creative Person and the Creative Context 

Claremont Graduate University 

2006

Diane Halpern 

Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities 

Claremont McKenna 

2007

Ross Parke

Fatherhood: Remembering the Past: Imagining the Future

UC Riverside

2008

Christina Maslach

Research Adventures with Burnout

UC Berkeley

2009

Jean Twenge

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans are More Confident,

San Diego State University

Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

2010

Michael Hogg

The Trouble with Identity: How Uncertainty Breeds Extremism

Claremont Graduate University

2011

Steven Hayes

University of Nevada, Reno