At the April 2008 " Toward a Science of Consciousness " Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, Marcel Kuijsten ( Executive Director and Founder of the Julian Jaynes Society ) and Brian J. McVeigh ( University of Arizona ) hosted a workshop devoted to Jaynesian psychology.

Rank's psychology of creativity has recently been applied to action learning, an inquiry-based process of group problem solving, team building, leadership development and organizational learning ( Kramer 2007 ; 2008 ).

In Australia the psychology profession and the use of the title ' psychologist ' is regulated by an Act of Parliament, Health Practitioner Regulation ( Administrative Arrangements ) National Law Act 2008, following an agreement between the state and territory governments.

Goleman's model of EI has been criticized in the research literature as mere " pop psychology " ( Mayer, Roberts, & Barsade, 2008 ).

In 2008, an audio recording obtained by student media included two psychology lecturers asking students to inflate their graded opinions given as part of the National Student Survey.

2008 ), but this incorporates and builds on the results, theories, and methods of experimental psychology, rhetoric ( Bogost 2007 ), and human-computer interaction.

Chang ( 2008 ) believes emotional intelligence is not definitive to positive affect and researchers have a number of paths that allow the enhancement of emotional intelligence ; however more study is required to track the gradient of positive affect in psychology.

Within psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, Reich's Character Analysis contributed to the development of what is now known as ego psychology, gave rise to body psychotherapy, and helped to shape the Gestalt therapy of Fritz Perls ( 1893 – 1970 ), the bioenergetic analysis of Reich's student, Alexander Lowen ( 1910 – 2008 ), and the primal therapy of Arthur Janov ( b. 1924 ).

* Jerusha B. Detweller-Bedell, Associate professor of psychology and recipient of 2008 U. S. Professor of the Year award from CASE

They include computations in biology and biochemical systems ( e. g. Egri-Nagy & Nehaniv 2008 ), artificial intelligence, finite-state physics, psychology, and game theory ( see, for example, Rhodes 2009 ).

Since 2008, Kennedy has played psychology professor Eli James in the CBS drama Ghost Whisperer.

The continued efforts to regain academic leadership are mirrored in national top placements, e. g. in the 2009 Die Zeit university ranking, in several subjects including for instance biology ( 2009 ), medicine ( 2009 ), geography, law ( 2008 ) pharmacy, psychology, dentistry ( 2009 ), and business administration ( 2008 ).

The findings of the latest Research Assessment Exercise ( RAE 2008 ) showed that Abertay is the most highly rated modern university in Scotland for research in environmental sciences, law and psychology.

In 2008 this case was studied on the psychology program Most Evil.

In addition to distribution of its CD / DVD archives, in 2008 the MIA launched Marxist Internet Archive Publications, which has, as of November 2010, published seven titles in philosophy, social history, and Soviet psychology and pedagogy, which it distributes through Erythrós Press.

He holds a BSc in Geography, submajoring in moral philosophy and psychology from the University of Aberdeen ( 1977 ), a financial MBA from the University of Edinburgh ( 1981 ), and in 2008 the Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages ( of which he is a Visiting Fellow ) at the University of Ulster approved the award of PhD by Published Work based on Soil and Soul and twelve supporting publications presented with a short linking thesis, ' Some Contributions of Liberation Theology to Community Empowerment in Scottish Land Reform 1991-2003 '.

His 2008 book on the psychology and spirituality underlying climate change " Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition " was described by Michael Russell MSP, Minister for the Environment in the Scottish Government as " a profoundly important book, just as Soil and Soul was a profoundly important book.

In June 2008, Daniel Yergin said that markets have helped fuel a " shortage psychology " that the world is " running out of oil ".

It draws from management, organization and architecture ( Dale en Burrell, 2008 ) added with knowledge from, for instance, environmental psychology, social medicine, or spatial science.

President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.

Joseph Weizenbaum ( 8 January 1923, Berlin-5 March 2008, Ludwigsfelde-Gröben near Berlin ) was a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT.

* 1960 – Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author ( d. 2008 )

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

In his book The Shaolin Monastery ( 2008 ), Tel Aviv University professor Meir Shahar notes that the bodhisattva Vajrapani is the patron saint of Shaolin Monastery.

David Foster Wallace ( February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008 ) was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

* J. M. G. Le Clézio – French author and professor, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature

In 2008, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch's " Last Lecture " became a pop culture phenomenon.

In February 2008, a Facebook group formed by law professor John Palfrey encouraged him to run for Congress from California's 12th congressional district, the seat vacated by the death of U. S. Representative Tom Lantos.

His other son, John W. F. Dulles ( 1913 – 2008 ), was a Brazilianist and professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

* John L. Holland ( 1919 – 2008 ), American psychologist and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University

In an August 2008 issue of the Japanese newsweekly Shūkan Gendai, Waseda University professor Toshimitsu Shigemura, an authority on the Korean Peninsula, claimed that Kim Jong-il died of diabetes in late 2003 and had been replaced in public appearances by one or more stand-ins previously employed to protect him from assassination attempts.

The political and social role of University of Tehran in the Iranian domestic arena has continued to be so pronounced that in November 2005 ( to February 2008 ) a senior Islamic scholar became chancellor of the university, replacing Dr. Faraji-dana ( professor of electrical engineering faculty ).

In September 2008, Stanley Mitchell, emeritus professor of aesthetics at the University of Derby, published, through Penguin Books, a complete translation, again preserving the Onegin stanzas in English.

As part of Greensboro, North Carolina's bicentennial celebration, the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation commissioned sculptor Jim Barnhill, a city native and associate professor at NC A & T University, to create a bronze statue of Nathanael Greene which was dedicated on March 26, 2008.

His son, David E. Muller, a professor emeritus of mathematics and computer science at the University of Illinois and at New Mexico State University, died in 2008 in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Matthew Joseph Bruccoli ( August 21, 1931 – June 4, 2008 ) was an American professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

He worked at the Rockefeller Institute ( 1958 – 1973 ), and was a professor at Yale University Medical School ( 1973 – 1990 ), and University of California, San Diego ( 1990 – 2008 ).

As of 2008, in addition to his IBM responsibilities, Soltis serves as an adjunct professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Minnesota where he teaches graduate courses on high performance computer design.

In 2008, the University of Calgary Tom Keenan professor cited " the hideous Custer's Revenge game ", 26 years after its release, in an op-ed piece about current video game violence issues for the Calgary Herald.

* Eugenia T. Paulus, professor of chemistry and recipient of 2008 U. S. Professor of the Year award from CASE

In 2008, Mohawk early childhood education graduate Debbie Crickmore and ECE professor Karyn Callaghan received YWCA Hamilton Women of Distinction Awards.

In June 2008, Gert Holstege, a professor at the University of Groningen, said following a post-mortem analysis of Van Andel-Schipper's brain that there was little indication of the kinds of problems in the brain, some related to Alzheimer's disease, that are normally found in individuals who survive to extreme ages.