Professor Michele Robert, University of Montreal has been appointed editor of the International Journal of Psychology (IJP) for 2009-2013. She will succeed Claudia Dalbert, University of Halle, Germany, who was editor from 2004-2009.

Robert notes: "I am deeply honored to have been nominated to the editorship of the International Journal of Psychology.  However, I am also fully aware of the challenge involved.  In a spirit of cooperative leadership, I will endeavor to collaborate in the fulfillment of the mission of the International Union of Psychological Science.  I have always enjoyed the highly stimulating diversity existing within the broad discipline of psychology.  This wide scope feeds on the extensive cultural variety of the many researchers who regularly contribute to extending the limits of our knowledge about human behavior.  In line with my predecessor's significant accomplishments, my major objective will be to enhance the journal's characteristic profile as an important agent in the promotion of scientific communication among psychologists from different sectors of the discipline as well as from diverse cultural regions of the world."

Michele Robert is Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal where she has been since 1973.  She earned her PhD at the University of Paris, and did postdoctoral studies at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include conditioning and Learning, cognitive development and social influences, and gender comparisons in cognitive abilities, with a focus on spatial cognition.

Professor Robert has served on the editorial boards of several journals, was associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Psychology and the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, and has edited/co-edited books on scientific research, experimental psychology, and proceedings from the 1996 International Congress of Psychology. She is a member of several professional associations, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Robert’s service to the discipline includes terms as President of the Association de psychologie scientifique de langue française (French-Language Scientific Psychology Association) an affiliate of the Union, and as President of the Quebec Society for Research in Psychology. In addition, Robert served on the Scientific Program Committee for the XXVI International Congress of Psychology, and on the Scientific Affairs Committee of the Canadian Psychological Association. Her publications include multiple chapters in edited books, and numerous journal articles and international and national conference presentations.

Robert will begin accepting manuscripts in October, 2009.