• Professor, Political Science and Philosophy. Director, Center for Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality.

• Author/editor of 10 books. The Heart of Altruism received the 1997 Best Book Award from American Political Science Association's Political Psychology Section and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The Hand of Compassion received APSA’s 2005 Robert Lane Award and Honorable Mention for its Giovanni Sartori Award.

• Extensive ISPP service includes Governing Council, Political Psychology’s Editorial Board, Program Chair, and Vice President. Past Vice President of APSA.

• Taught at NYU, Princeton, Stony Brook, and Univ.of British Columbia.

• Current research: Identity’s influence on choice, including a book on moral psychology and genocide, contrasting bystanders, Nazi supporters and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust; an NSF Advance project on women in academia; a volume on the ethics of stem cell research.

 “I’m fascinated by the human psyche – how it works and its ability to influence political behavior – and have benefited enormously from intellectual exchange on this topic at the ISPP. I am honored just to be nominated for President. Were I to be elected, I would work with the Governing Council and Executive Director to develop institutional mechanisms, via standing committees, to provide ISPP with additional sources of ongoing external funding and to broaden the membership base, with special attention given to attracting young scholars and new members from all parts of the world. To draw on the wisdom and experience of past officers, I would rotate membership of past officers on these standing committees. As Chair of ISPP's Caucus of Concerned Scholars, Committee on Ethics and Morality, I hope to develop that into an international repository of knowledge about forces driving ethics and morality.”

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