As a member of the Monitoring Committee, McArdle will assist in making sure the data collected represent the best interests of the public. The committee decides on the age of the participants and ensures an accurate representation of socioeconomic levels and a large sampling of underrepresented minorities. HRS also takes a look at people who cannot make easy transitions to retirement and the health of those individuals. The committee constantly investigates what variables should be added, including cognitive variables. It's our own fault that we got involved so late in the game.
Psychologists have an opportunity to get involved in a large-scale survey.
McArdle will analyze the changes in cognition that can lead to retirement such as the ability to cope with job and life issues. He was also director of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study in Colorado Springs, Colo., for 14 years. Mass. Miller, the only psychologist to receive an honorary degree at the convocation, is a James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Princeton University. A leader in the field of cognitive psychology, he was awarded the National Medal of Science from former U.S. President George Bush in 1991. The Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation has named Phillip Rubin, PhD , as its new director.