Robert A. Bjork (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Co-editor of Psychological Science in the Public Interest. His research focuses on how humans learn and remember and on the implications of that research for training and instruction. His earlier responsibilities include editing Psychological Review (1995-2000), editing Memory & Cognition (1981-85), and chairing a National Research Council Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance (1988-94). He has served as President of the American Psychological Society, President of the Western Psychological Association, Chair of the Psychonomic Society, and Chair of the Council of Editors of the American Psychological Association. He is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Psychological Society (APS). He is a recipient of UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Award of the American Psychological Association. During 2001-2002, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, and a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.