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Glenn Adams—University of Kansas- Dora Angelaki—Baylor College of Medicine
- David B. Baker—University of Akron
- David H. Barlow—Boston University
- Linda Bartoshuk—University of Florida
- Roy F. Baumeister—Florida State University
- Diane Beck—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sudeep Bhatia—Carnegie Mellon University
- Hannah Boettcher—Boston University
- Mark E. Bouton—University of Vermont
- Debi Brannan—Western Oregon University
- Simona Buetti—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Brad J. Bushman—The Ohio State University
- Sue Carter—University of North Carolina
- Cristina Crego—University of Kentucky
- J. David Dickman—Baylor College of Medicine
- Marissa L. Diener—University of Utah
- M. Brent Donnellan—Michigan State University
- Kristen K. Ellard—Massachusetts General Hospital
- Robert A. Emmons—University of California, Davis
- Ingrid G. Farreras—Hood College
- Susan T. Fiske—Princeton University
- Donelson R. Forsyth—University of Richmond
- R. Chris Fraley—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Frances Friedrich—University of Utah
- Stephen Garcia—University of Michigan
- Olya Glantsman—DePaul University
- Cindy Harmon-Jones—University of New South Wales
- Yanine D. Hess—University of California, Davis
- Emily Hooker—University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Erin I. Smith—California Baptist University
- Tiffany A. Ito—University of Colorado Boulder
- Jennifer A. Jewell—University of Kentucky
- Todd Kashdan—George Mason University
- Evan Kleiman—George Mason University
- Brice Kuhl—New York University
- Lorin Lachs—California State University, Fresno
- Cara Laney—Reed College
- Siri Leknes—University of Oslo
- Alejandro Lleras—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Elizabeth F. Loftus—University of California, Irvine
- David Lubinski—Vanderbilt University
- Richard E. Lucas—Michigan State University
- James E Maddux—George Mason University
- David Matsumoto—San Francisco State University
- Dan P. McAdams—Northwestern University
- Matthias R. Mehl—University of Arizona
- Gregory A. Miller—University of California, Los Angeles
- Cynthia D. Mohr—Portland State University
- Joel A. Muraco—University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
- Randy J. Nelson—The Ohio State University
- Shigehiro Oishi—University of Virginia
- Ken Paller—Northwestern University
- Kevin A. Pelphrey—Yale University
- Paul K. Piff—University of California, Irvine
- Stephen Porges—University of North Carolina
- Adam John Privitera—Chemeketa Community College
- Kaitlyn N. Ramian—DePaul University
- Henry L. Roediger III—Washington University in St. Louis
- Peter Salovey—Yale University
- David A. Schroeder—University of Arkansas
- Robert Siegler—Carnegie Mellon University
- Daniel Simons—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jacqui Smith—University of Michigan
- Heather Sperry—The University of Akron
- Michelle J. Tam—University of Kentucky
- Evelina Tapia—University of Illinois
- Jake Teeny—The Ohio State University
- Renee Thompson—Washington University in St. Louis
- Maferima Touré-Tillery—Northwestern University
- Eric Turkheimer—University of Virginia
- David Watson—University of Notre Dame
- Thomas Widiger—University of Kentucky
- Leslie Zebrowitz—Brandeis University
- Aneeq Ahmad—Henderson State University
- Jeffrey Jensen Arnett—Clark University
- Deanna M. Barch—Washington University in St. Louis
- Susan Barron—University of Kentucky
- Talya N. Bauer—Portland State University
- Max H. Bazerman—Harvard University
- Aaron Benjamin—University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Robert Biswas-Diener—Portland State University
- Robert Bornstein—Adelphi University
- Marc Brackett—Yale University
- Christia Spears Brown—University of Kentucky
- Jerry M. Burger—Santa Clara University
- David M. Buss—University of Texas at Austin
- Beth Chance—California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- Sarah Delaney—Yale University
- Edward Diener—University of Virginia
- Ap Dijksterhuis—Radboud University Nijmegen
- Nicole Dudukovic—New York University
- Dan-Mikael Ellingson—University of Gothenburg
- Berrin Erdogan—Portland State University
- Ayelet Fishbach—University of Chicago
- Brett Ford—University of Toronto
- Jennifer Fox—Northwest Vista College
- Robert G. Franklin—Anderson University
- Sharon Furtak—California State University, Sacramento
- Anda Gershon—Stanford University
- Arnor Halldorsson—University of Michigan
- Eddie Harmon-Jones—University of New South Wales
- Stefan G. Hofmann—Boston University
- Hyisung Hwang—San Francisco State University
- Zachary Infantolino—University of Delaware
- Leonard A. Jason—DePaul University
- Rajiv Jhangiani—Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Yoshihisa Kashima—University of Melbourne
- Jennifer T. Kubota—University of Delaware
- Tuğçe Kurtiş—Prescott College
- Nathaniel M. Lambert—Brigham Young University
- Jennifer Lansford—Duke University
- Robert V. Levine—California State University, Fresno
- George Loewenstein—Carnegie Mellon University
- Guro E. Løseth—University of Oslo
- Don Lucas—Northwest Vista College
- Angela Lukowski—University of Calfornia, Irvine
- Bertram Malle—Brown University
- Iris B. Mauss—University of California, Berkeley
- Kathleen B. McDermott—Washington University in St. Louis
- Richard Milich—University of Kentucky
- Helen Milojevich—University of Calfornia, Irvine
- Jake P. Moskowitz—University of California, Irvine
- Gregory Murphy—New York University
- Andrew J. Oxenham—University of Minnesota
- Chris Patrick—Florida State University
- Cynthia L. Pickett—University of California, Davis
- Dennis L. Poepsel—Truman State University
- Sarah Pressman—University of Calfornia, Irvine
- Tara Queen—University of Michigan
- Walter Roberts—University of Kentucky
- Allan Rossman—California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- Phia Salter—Davidson College
- Christie Napa Scollon—Singapore Management University
- Paul Silvia—University North Carolina, Greensboro
- Dean Keith Simonton—University of California, Davis
- Derek Snyder—University of Florida
- Satoru Suzuki—Northwestern University
- Kenneth Tan—Purdue University
- Louis Tay—Purdue University
- Neil Thin—University of Edinburgh
- Ross Thompson—University of California, Davis
- Jeanne Tsai—Stanford University
- Dalena van Heugten - van der Kloet—Maastricht University
- Ian Weaver—Dalhousie University
- Q. Jade Wu—Boston University
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