Karin Sternberg, Ph.D., and Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D.

Karin Sternberg, Ph.D., is a research associate at Cornell University. She has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, as well as an MBA with a specialization in banking from the University of Cooperative Education in Karlsruhe, Germany. Karin completed some of her doctoral research at Yale and her postdoctoral work at the University of Connecticut. Afterward, she worked as a research associate at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and School of Public Health. She has held a grant from the National Institutes of Health for the development of a cognitive training program for seniors. She currently is working on projects pertaining to child development as well as admissions in undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, based on theories in cognitive psychology. She is the author of a textbook on the psychology of love and is currently writing a textbook on child development. She is the co-author of The Psychologist’s Companion, Cognitive Psychology, and The Nature of Hate, and co-editor of The New Psychology of Love, amongst other books.

Robert J. Sternberg, Ph.D., is Professor of Human Development in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University and Honorary Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany. Previously, Sternberg served eight and a half years in academic administration as a university dean, provost, and president. Before that, he was IBM Professor of Psychology and Education and Professor of Management at Yale.

Sternberg is a past president of the American Psychological Association, the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the Eastern Psychological Association, and the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology. Sternberg also has been president of four divisions of the American Psychological Association and treasurer of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Sternberg’s B.A. is from Yale University summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa; his Ph.D. is from Stanford University, and he holds 13 honorary doctorates. Sternberg has won more than two dozen awards for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Award (1999) and the William James Fellow Award (2017) from APS. He also is the winner of the Grawemeyer Award (2018) in psychology. He is the author of over 1,800 publications. Sternberg writes actively for www.lovemultiverse.com.

Sternberg was cited in an APA Monitor on Psychology report as one of the top 100 psychologists of the 20th century (#60) and in a report in Archives of Scientific Psychology by Diener and colleagues as one of the top 200 psychologists of the modern era (#60). He was cited by Griggs and Christopher in Teaching of Psychology as one of the top-cited scholars in introductory-psychology textbooks (#5). According to Google Scholar, he has been cited roughly 175,000 times; he has an h index of 200 and an i10 index of 1075. He has authored textbooks in introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, and in communication in psychology. Sternberg is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sternberg is an avid cello player. He is married to Karin Sternberg, Ph.D., and has two grown children as well as nine-year-old triplets.