Professor K Geoffrey White
Email kgwhite@psy.otago.ac.nz
Tel 64 3 479 7629
Professor White was Head of the Psychology Department at Otago University for 10 years from 1987, and for 5 years from 2004 was the University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). He joined the Otago Psychology Department in 1985, having spent 13 years lecturing at the Victoria University of Wellington and in visiting appointments at Colorado College, University of Colorado, Boulder, and University of California, San Diego. He has been President of the New Zealand Psychological Society and for many years was a member of the New Zealand Psychologists’ Registration Board. He edited the New Zealand Journal of Psychology and has been Associate Editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
He has been the recipient of the New Zealand Psychological Society’s Hunter Award and Adcock Award, and in 2000 with John Wixted was the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s George A Miller Award. He is a Fellow of several national and international organisations, including the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has successfully supervised over 20 PhD students and many Master's students, and in 2003 was the University’s inaugural supervisor of the year. In 2009 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science and psychology.
Teaching
PSYC 469 Human Information Processing
Research Interests
Memory, discrimination, and learning
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