Norman Bruce Anderson, PhD (born October 16, 1955) is Chief Executive Officer of the American Psychological Association (APA),[1] the largest scientific and professional association for psychologists in the United States. Anderson became the APA’s first African-American CEO when he was named to the post in 2003.
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Anderson was the founding director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.[2] While with NIH from 1995 to 2000, he was charged with facilitating behavioral and social sciences research across all NIH institutes and centers. He was an associate professor at Duke University Medical School from 1991 to 1999, and the Harvard School of Public Health from 2000 to 2002. While at Harvard, Anderson sat on faculty recruitment, scholarship funding and graduate school admissions boards. Much of his research and writing focused on the effects of stress on biology and risk for hypertension.
With his wife, P. Elizabeth Anderson, he wrote a health book for the general public, Emotional Longevity: What Really Determines How Long You Live,[3] released in 2003.
A graduate of the North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., Anderson earned master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received additional clinical and research training at the schools of medicine at Brown and Duke Universities, including postdoctoral fellowships in psychophysiology and aging at Duke.
Born October 16, 1955, in Greensboro, N.C., to Charles W. and Lois J. Anderson.