Officers
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PresidentFatoş Erkman, Ph.D., Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, ferkman@gmail.com Dr. Erkman is Associate Professor, in the Department of Educational Sciences at Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey. She is President of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection and she is involved in research on teacher acceptance-rejection, physical punishment, and intimate adult relationships in Turkey. |
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President-ElectAbdul Khaleque, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA, abdul.khaleque@uconn.edu Dr. Khaleque earned his Doctorate in Psychology from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Currently he is a Senior Scientist in the Ronald and Nancy Rohner Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut. He is also a Professor in Residence in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is a past President of the Bangladesh Psychological Association, a former Vice President and General Secretary of the South Asian Association of Psychologists, a life member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of the USA, and a member of the American Psychological Association. His current research interests include interpersonal acceptance-rejection and lifespan human development, specifically parental acceptance-rejection, intimate partner acceptance-rejection, and teachers’ acceptance-rejection. He has published nearly 100 research articles, approximately 25 book chapters, and 12 books in psychology and related areas. |
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Past President & Executive DirectorRonald P. Rohner, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Dr. Rohner is Professor Emeritus of Family Studies and Anthropology at the University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, CT, USA. He is also Director of the Ronald and Nancy Rohner Center for the Study of Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection located on the UConn Campus. Additionally, he serves as Executive Director and is Past-president of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. He is author of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory (PARTheory), its associated measures, twelve books, and more than 200 articles and other publications. |
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Secretary-TreasurerShaila Khan, Ph.D., Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi, USA, skhan@tougaloo.edu Dr. Khan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology in Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Khan received her Doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada in 1997. Her academic career spans twenty-three years of university teaching in different parts of the world. In the last five years she has conducted cross-cultural research with Bangladeshi college students as well as with African American college students on parental acceptance and rejection, intimate adult relationships, corporal punishment, and psychological well-being. Additionally, she has done NIH funded evaluative research on “Student achievement and its relationship with perceived parental and teacher acceptance/rejection in the Mississippi Delta”. |