Hardly a Straight Line

Changing course multiple times over my career has afforded me rich experience and great satisfaction. In my first year of graduate school, I transitioned from clinical to experimental psychology. I simultaneously studied quantitative methods, which became the powerful connecting force throughout my career. Over time, my substantive research transitioned from laboratory-based pattern perception to field research in drug abuse and finally to a sustained program in women’s health. I transitioned twice between academic professor and central administrator. I have been most passionately devoted to fostering quantitative methods in psychology – in teaching, in research, in program development and program leadership. At the national level, I worked devotedly to foster recognition and understanding of quantitative psychology and its central place within the broad discipline of psychology.