Officers
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PresidentFatoş Erkman, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, ferkman@gmail.com Fatoş Erkman, Ph.D., 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-ElectRobert Veneziano, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut, USA, venezianor@wcsu.edu Robert A. Veneziano Ph.D., is Professor of Social Work and Chair of the Department of Social Work at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut, USA. He is President-elect of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. For over twenty years, his research has focused principally of issues related to paternal behavior, including both idiographic and cross-cultural comparative studies of fathers’ and mothers’ acceptance-rejection and youths’ development. He is currently serving as the Project Chair of an international program of research on the relative influence of maternal versus paternal acceptance-rejection on youths’development. |
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Past President & Executive DirectorRonald P. Rohner , University of Connecticut, Ronald P. Rohner, Ph.D., 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-TreasurerParminder Parmar, Pennsylvania State University, Worthington-Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, prp104@psu.edu Parminder Parmar, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Health and Human Development at Pennsylvania State University, Worthington-Scranton, USA. She is interested in studying development in early childhood, child rearing practices and parenting across cultures. Her research focuses on importance of play and learning in early childhood and parents' cultural beliefs about the development of young children.She is also Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection. She is a Project Coordinator on the cross-cultural project on teacher acceptance-rejection. She is also involved in research on physical punishment and intimate adult relationships in India. |