John Bohannon:  

I went to Northwest Catholic High school (1966), the United States Naval Academy (marine engineering), Fairfield University (BA psychology, 1970), University of Hartford (MA experimental psychology, 1972) and SUNY Stony Brook (PhD developmental psychology, 1975). I taught at Emory University and Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Virginia Tech and at Butler University 1988-2021. I served as the W.A.Dunn Professor of Psychology 1994-2021. Was department head 13 years. Hired the whole department. I got to write, do my research with my students and just teach my classes. SInce 2006, I and my lab of undergrads put out 148 papers and 32 theses. March, 2014 I gave the Seigel-Wallston address for the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) which met in Nashville. SEPA awarded me their science best papers award (2007) and their Mentor award (2020) and then elected me their president for 2021 -2023. I used to bring my students to SEPA to present their research as undergrads. It happened again for the SEPA annual meeting in 2022 but this time my students and co-authors were the honored plenary speakers! Retirement happened 2/1/2021 and outside of a single sabbatical year (2000-2001), this was the first year I have not had my lab nor taught a class in 48 years. Weird. In 2015 my children and I presented a couple of papers with all our names on it -- a Bohannon cubed series of reports on the syntactic markers of sex and violence in novels. Using our syntactic markers you now can have your computer scan digitized novels to pick out the good parts without having to read the entire book yourself. Thus, we contributed our part to the decline of western civilization. I am so proud. I also coauthored a paper with a physicist from Princeton named Einstein. OK, Lisa Einstein not Albert but still cool! My work is cited in intro psych and developmental texts. The 10th edition of my text (with many other authors) on language development came out in March 2022. The 10th edition has a former student co-author. I also have a chapter (2017) on how social membership and event consequences determine your autobiographical memories. However, I am now officially retired after 46 years of employed professing. What shall I do? Oh yeah. Be an ex-president ... what were they thinking?. 2 Children - John IV and Catherine. JNB4 got his doctorate in molecular biology (genetics) from Oxford (2001), then stayed in Europe as a science journalist. He had a column in the journal "Science" also spent a year in Berlin as a Fulbright Scholar at Freie Universitat. He lived in Vienna for a while traveling the globe doing research. Eventually, he returned to the states as a guest scholar/faculty at Harvard but has since moved to San Francisco for warmer weather. His research has thrice made the cover of Science. His article on Scientific fraud in journals (journals were frauds, not the authors) was named the most influential paper in Science for 2014. He published an intentionally bad paper on weight loss and chocolate. That phony finding got 1.5 million hits in 6 weeks. He started and runs th...Expand for more