Who is michael posner

Print Email Share Like. Michael H. Joined Stern Leonard N. Biography Michael H. He is the Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the School, the first-ever human rights center at a business school. Posner is recognized as a leader and expert in advancing a rights-based approach to national security, challenging the practice of torture, combating discrimination, and refugee protection.

With a passion for understanding the mind and how it is implemented by the brain, Posner helped develop and then transform the field of cognitive psychology. Most recently, working with Mary Rothbart and others Posner has led the way in understanding the roles of genetics and environment including education and training and their interaction in mediating the development of cognitive processes. He has been uncannily imaginative in his development of model tasks letter matching; probe-interference; spatial cuing that precisely target the mental operations of interest.

And through his contagious passion for understanding, his kindness and collegiality, he has inspired legions of admiring and productive students, post-doctoral fellows and colleagues. Anonymous 3 Kent C. The system can't perform the operation now. Try again later. Citations per year. Duplicate citations. The following articles are merged in Scholar.

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