Bill received his A.B. degree in psychology from Stanford
University and his Ph.D from the University of Oregon. He
also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in
personality psychology. Before joining the faculty at St. Johns in
January, 2004, Bill was on the faculty at the University of
Illinois (joint appointment in personality and quantitative
psychology), Auburn University (quantitative psychology), and the
University of Alabama (quantitative psychology with a joint
appointment in applied statistics). He has also spent
sabbatical years at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia
and at New York University, and he was a visiting professor at
Phillips University in Marburg, Germany.
Bill is an elected member of the Society of Multivariate
Experimental Psychology (1988) and was selected to attend advanced
training workshops in longitudinal data analysis and the analysis
of fMRI data. He is also on the quantitative faculty
(psychometrics) of the NIH sponsored Summer Training
Instituite for Randomized Clinical Trials involving behavioral
interventions. Bill serves routinely on the editorial boards
of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Research in
Personality. He was associate editor of the Journal of
Research in Personality from 1994-2000.
Bill has extensive consulting and collaborative data analytic
experience and has worked on projects at the Oregon Research
Institute, Georgetown Medical School, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine,
and Columbia University Medical School. His major areas of
expertise are longitudinal data analysis, confirmatory factor
analysis, mediational models, and psychometrics.