History of the Research Fair

Previous Keynote Speakers:

1994 Mark Snyder, University of Minnesota - The Psychology of Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
1995 Nancy Adler, University of California, San Francisc - Adolescent Decision Making and Contraception Use
1996 Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University - On the Psychology of Evil: How to Seduce Good Folks to do Bad Things
1997 Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco - Why Don’t We Catch Liars?
1998 Larry Squire, University of California, San Diego - Memory and the Brain
1999 Elizabeth Loftus, University of Washington - Creating False Memories
2000 Marc Schuckit, University of California, San Diego - A 20 Year Prospective Study of Children of Alcoholics
2001 Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University - The Power of Persuasion
2002 Robert Rosenthal, University of California, Riverside - Interpersonal Expectations and Nonverbal Behavior
2003 Claude Steele, Stanford University - The Contingencies of Social Identity
2004 Ebbe Ebbeson, University of California, San Diego - Psychology and the Law
2005 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Claremont Graduate University - The Creative Person and the Creative Context
2006 Diane Halpern, Claremont McKenna - Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities
2007 Ross Parke, University of California, Riverside - Fatherhood: Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
2008 Christina Maslach, University of California, Berkeley - Research Adventures in Job Burnout
2009 Jean Twenge, San Diego State University - Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable than Ever Before
2010 Michael Hogg, Claremont Graduate University - The Trouble with Identity: How Uncertainty Breeds Extremism
2011 Steven Hayes, University of Nevada, Reno - The Importance of Psychological Flexibility
2012 Paul Abramson, University of California, Los Angeles - Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Conundrum of Kids, Sex, and the Law
2013 Howard Friedman, University of California, Riverside - Healthy Models and Pathways to Longevity
2014 Sylvia Hurtado, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles - Success in STEM: Recent Research at Different Stages of the Pipeline
2015 Jonathan Schooler, University of California, Santa Barbara - The Three "R"s of Mind-wandering: Ramifications, Rewards, and Regulation
2017 John Elder, San Diego State University - Child Obesity and the Hispanic Health Paradox
2018 John Wixted, Univerity of California, San Diego
2019 Bella DePaulo, University of California, Santa Barbara
2021 Roxane Cohen Silver, University of California, Irvine
2022 Paul Piff, University of California, Irvine
2023 Franki Kung, Purdue University
2024 Lacie Barber, San Diego State University