Arie W. Kruglanski Ph.D.

Arie W. Kruglanski, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award, the Senior Humboldt Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Oustanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, The University of Maryland Regents Award for Scholarship and Creativity, and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, a Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for the Science of Motivation and is recipient of the Regesz Chair at the University of Amsterdam.

He was Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist.

His interests have been in the domains of human judgment and decision-making, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, and the psychology of human goals. His work has been disseminated in 5 authored books and over 450 articles, chapters, and books.

His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, Deutsche Forschungs Gemeineschaft, Department of Homeland Security, Office of Naval Research, the United States Air Force, and the Ford Foundation. He has recently served as panelist of the National Academy of Science panels on counterterrorism, and educational paradigms in homeland security. Kruglanski has been a founding co-PI of START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), at the University of Maryland, and is now a PI on 5-year MINERVA grant to study radicalization and deradicalization in the Middle East and in South and South East Asia, and a PI on the DOD grant on the psychological study of Syrian refugees in Europe and the Middle East, and a DOD grant on the study of the Social Effects of Climate Change. He also is the Outgoing President of the Society for the Study of Motivation.