SPSSI Council Member 2009-2010

  Richard Wiener

 Dr. Richard L. Wiener received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Houston. He studied law at the University of Nebraska (UNL) College of Law where he earned a Masters Degree in Legal Studies. He is currently the Charles Bessey Professor of Psychology and of Law at UNL where he serves as the director of the Law and Psychology Program. Wiener is the past editor of Law and Human Behavior, the official journal of the American Psychology/Law Society (Division 41 of the American Psychological Association).  He has also served as the secretary for that organization. Dr. Wiener is the immediate past chair of the SPSSI Court Watch committee, and the immediate past editor of the SPSSI newsletter, the Forward. Wiener studies the application of social and cognitive psychology to problems of legal decision-making.  He is best known and cited for his work in sexual harassment, jury decision making in capital murder, and emotion in the law. He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, Sex Roles, Psychology Public Policy and the Law, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology - Applied. The National Science Foundation has supported Wiener’s work in these areas with several research awards.