Stephen Ceci
Stephen Ceci
Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology
Psychology
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G110 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Biography

I am the author of approximately 450 articles, books, commentaries, reviews, and chapters, many in the premier journals in the field. According to Google Scholar, my work has been cited about 43,000 times and my h-index is 83-84, i10=261, with ~40 publications each cited over 100 times and 10 cited over 1,000 times. I have given hundreds of invited addresses and keynote speeches around the world (Harvard, Cambridge University, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, University of Rome, University of Oslo, and the Max Plank Institutes in both Munich and Berlin). I have served on the Advisory Board of the National Science Foundation for seven years (the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences), and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Board of Behavioral and Sensory Sciences for six years. My major honors and scientific awards include:

  • In 2000 the American Academy of Forensic Psychology's Lifetime Distinguished Contribution Award
  • In 2002, the American Psychological Association's Division of Developmental Psychology awarded me its Lifetime Award for Science and Society
  • In 2003 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award for the Application of Psychology (shared with Elizabeth F. Loftus)
  • In 2005 I received the Association for Psychological Science's highest scientific award, the James McKeen Cattell Award at its annual meeting in L.A.
  • In 2013 The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) gave me its lifetime distinguished contribution award (Seattle, WA).  Cornell Chronicle Story 
  • In 2014 I received the SUNY Award for Research (I received the SUNY Award for Teaching in 2002)
  • In 2015 I was the recipient of the American Psychological Association's E. L. Thorndike Award for lifetime contribution to empirical and theoretical psychology (see story at: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/08/steve-ceci-wins-thorndike-award-lifetime-research)
  • In 2018 I was the recipient of the G. Stanley Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology,  (see story:  http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/09/stephen-ceci-receive-developmental-psychology-award)
  • In 2018 I was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and elected president of the APA Society of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science

I have appeared frequently in the national and international media, including: ABC's 20/20 (twice), NBC’s Dateline (twice), ABC’s Nightline, ABC’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Primetime Live (twice), PBS’s Frontline (twice), CBS’s 48 Hours, PBS’s McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, BBC (three times), CBC's Fifth Estate, and in numerous magazines and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal (twice), The New York Times (four times), The New Yorker (three times), The Washington Post (three times), Time Magazine (twice), Newsweek (twice), The London Times, and Reader's Digest.  I am past-president of the Society for General Psychology, and I am currently president of the Society of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science of the American Psychological Association. I serve on 10 editorial boards; I am a senior advisor to several journals.

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