Dr. Harold Goldstein & Dr. Charles Scherbaum
Predicting Human Performance in Professional Sports
February 20, 2025
In an article titled “Most Likely to Succeed”, Malcolm Gladwell (2008) discusses the challenging problem of identifying who will be a successful quarterback in the NFL. This “Quarterback Problem” was the challenge of our ongoing multi-year research project that focuses on predicting success of players in the NFL using psychological assessment tests. We will share data and findings from our research and discuss future directions.
Harold W. Goldstein, Ph.D., is a professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Baruch College. Dr. Goldstein is best known for his work on how to develop valid assessment systems that reduce discrimination and for his work on assessing
talent in professional sports.
Charles A. Scherbaum, Ph.D., is a professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Baruch College.. Dr. Scherbaum is best known for his work on how to develop valid assessment systems that reduce discrimination and for his methods for validating employment assessments.
Dr. Christopher Stults
Intimate Partner Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minority People
November 7, 2024
In this presentation, attendees will learn about the prevalence, correlates, causes, and unique manifestations of intimate partner violence among LGBTQ+ people. They will also learn about the latest developments in Dr. Stults’s research program to develop programs to prevent IPV in these populations.
Dr. Stults is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Baruch College (CUNY), the Co-Director of Clinical Training of the Health Psychology and Clinical Sciences PhD Program at the Graduate Center (CUNY), and a licensed psychologist in independent practice in New York City. At Baruch College, Dr. Stults leads the the Sexual and Gender Minority Health (SGMH) Lab. Visit (www.christopherstults.com) for more information about Dr. Stults.
Dr. Elke Weber
Advancing Psychological Science While Placing It in the Service of Human Sustainability and Well-Being
October 23, 2024
Dr. Weber will discuss the need to ensure a mutual influence of basic psychological research on real-world understanding and problem-solving, which feeds back into developing new fundamental theories and research. Basic psychological theory needs to earn its keep by being stress tested in complex real-world environments and for its ability
to contribute to solutions to important societal problems. Such applications help identify gaps and blind spots in our theory landscape and help integrate theories that only address isolated components of perception, judgment, choice, and action into the social and physical environment in which they occur.
Dr. Elke Weber is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and professor of psychology and public affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
