Adele Diederich elected president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology

Adele Diederich, Professor of Psychology at IUB, was elected president of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (SMP) during its 36th Annual Meeting from July 24 to July 29, 2003, held at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.

[ Jul 30, 2003]  As president Professor Diederich will represent the society officially, organize business meetings and appoint committees amongst other things. For her as a German the presidency is a particular honor as the society is dominated by American members.

SMP was founded in 1966 at Stanford University, California. It aims at the advancement and communication of research in mathematical psychology. At present it has about 300 international members representing different disciplines: mathematical and experimental psychology, mathematics and computer science. Mathematical psychology is broadly defined to include work of a theoretical character that uses mathematical methods, formal logic, or computer simulation. Research areas include: models for sensation and perception, learning, memory and thinking; decision making; motivational dynamics; animal behavior; neuropsychological theories; psycholinguistics; and fundamental measurement and scaling amongst others. All these topics are covered by the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, which is affiliated with the society.

Adele Diederich was a Heisenberg Fellow at the university of Oldenburg before she joined IUB in Spring 2002. Her field of expertise includes modeling and experimental work in decision theory and perception, in particular, multisensory interaction. She has held visiting professorships at Northwestern University, Illinois, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at Purdue University, Indiana. She received her doctorate in psychology from the university of Hamburg in 1991.