133:(APA) in 2013. Before being elected president, Bersoff served as APA general counsel and held several leadership positions within the organization. He has been a faculty member at several law schools and he developed the nation's second joint graduate program in psychology and law. Bersoff has written four editions of a popular book on ethics and psychology.
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853:Robert Richardson Sears
698:Harry Levi Hollingworth
585:Walter Bowers Pillsbury
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156:United States Air Force
1354:Yale Law School alumni
961:George Armitage Miller
651:Margaret Floy Washburn
567:Henry Rutgers Marshall
172:University of Maryland
345:Monitor on Psychology
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160:Ohio State University
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1014:Wilbert J. McKeachie
794:John Edward Anderson
734:Louis Leon Thurstone
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722:Walter Samuel Hunter
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1104:Charles Spielberger
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746:Albert Poffenberger
609:Robert S. Woodworth
555:Mary Whiton Calkins
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152:clinical psychology
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127:Donald Neil Bersoff
77:New York University
33:Donald Neil Bersoff
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788:Calvin Perry Stone
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633:John Wallace Baird
573:George M. Stratton
543:William Lowe Bryan
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1158:Patrick H. DeLeon
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