As Founder and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise at Yale, I have shown I can raise funds for and manage large budgets. We also work together closely as a team, which is my preferred operating style in all research and administrative endeavors. If I am elected, I have at this point four particular missions that I would do my utmost to enact. Psychology has become increasingly fragmented and fractionalized. This fragmentation has occurred at a time in which fields and approaches in psychology rely on each other more than ever before.
Many clinical psychologists use cognitive or behavioral techniques.
Many cognitive and social psychologists study problems that historically have been central to clinical psychology, such as consciousness and emotions. Social psychologists use cognitive techniques, cognitive psychologists, social and biological techniques. As a field, psychology needs now, more than ever before, to become unified rather than fragmented. There will always be a role for specialization, of course. But psychologists in training need to understand diverse approaches to and use converging operations in solving the problems they choose to address, and not just limit themselves to single approaches or operations.