Professional/Public Activity & Service

(a partial list)

National Science Foundation grantee (1965-1968)

Secretary, Society for Philosophy and Psychology (1974-1975)

Board of Directors, Northwest Institute of Ethics and Life Sciences (1974-1976)

Fellow of the Hastings Center (1975-1991)

Task Force Member, Ohio State Task Force to Reduce Trial Delay (1978-1980)

Board of Directors, American Psychology-Law Society (1979-1982)

President, American Psychology-Law Society (when APLS became Div. 41, American Psychological Association) (1982-1984)

National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Review Panel (1979-1982)

APA Div. 41 Executive Committee (1984)

Member, APA Ethics Committee (1985-1987)

Member, APA Committee on Legal Issues (1992-1994)

Editorial Advisory Board, Law and Human Behavior (1981-1986)

Editorial Board, Law and Policy Quarterly (1982-1984)

Editorial Board, Forensic Reports (1986-1992)

Editorial Reviewer: Science, American Psychologist, Law and Society Review, Psychological Bulletin, Judicature, Justice System Journal, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Mental Health, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

Consultant, International Institute for Environment and Society, Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin (1980, 1985)

Institutional Review Board Member, American Bar Association Action Commission to Reduce Court Costs and Delay (1981)

Participant by invitation, Brookings Institution Seminars On the Administration of Justice (1983, 1985, 1987, 1993)

Participant by invitation, Aspen Institute Seminar on Society and Justice (1984)

Advisory Board Member, Government DP Expo (1986)

Barrister, Federal American Inn of Court (1996-1997)

Board Member and Secretary, International Judicial Academy (1998-2003)

Board Member, American Buddhist Study Center, New York (2005-present)

President, Buddhist Churches of America (2006-2007)

Board Member, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley California (2004-2006, 2008)

Member, Woodstock Center Interreligious Dialogue, Georgetown University (2008-2012)

Many lectures, conferences, symposia, workshops, colloquia, etc.

Lecture Courses and Seminars Taught (U.C. Davis, U. Washington, U. Pennsylvania, Institute of Buddhist Studies):

  • Introduction to Psychology as a Biological Science
  • Introduction to Psychology as a Social Science
  • Advanced General Psychology
  • Biological Bases of Motivation
  • Human Motivation
  • Comparative and Physiological Psychology
  • Human Sexuality
  • The Problem of Volition
  • The History of the Unconscious
  • The Embodied Mind
  • Judges and Judging
  • Psychology and Religion
  • Psychology and Law
  • Buddhist Psychology
  • The Religious Mind: Embodied, Embedded, and Engaged