Society Service:
President (1990-1994), International Association for Empirical Aesthetics
(Vice-President, 1985-1990)
President (1996-1997), Division 10, Psychology and the Arts
American Psychological Association
President (1998-2000), International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
(North American Vice-President, 1987-88)
Programme Chair (1996), Division 10, Psychology and the Arts,
American Psychological Association
Congress Coordinator (2000) IGEL2000 – VIIth International Congress of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
Society Memberships:
International Association for Empirical Aesthetics
International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature
International Society for Research on Emotion (elected to membership, 1988)
Canadian Society for Aesthetics
International Society for the Arts, Sciences & Technology
American Psychological Association
Editorial Service:
Canadian Psychologist
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science
Empirical Studies of the Arts
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
American Philosophical Quarterly
Psychological Reports
Memory
Journal of Personality
Leonardo
Cortex
Poetics
Psychological Review
Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Australian Granting Agency
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada
Visual Art Research
SSHRC Reviewer
SSHRC Research Grant Adjudication Committee #10 (1989-1991)
SSHRC Research Masters Scholarship Adjudication Committee (2006)
SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Committee (2012)
Neuropsychologia
Appetite
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Psychology of Popular Media Culture
Discourse Processes
Ammons Scientific