UNSW Leaders in Science

Professor Joe Forgas
Scientia Professor of Psychology

Mathews Building, Room 503
Phone: +61 2 9385 3037 - Fax: +61 2 9385 3641 - Email: jp.forgas@unsw.edu.au

Career profilePublicationsResearchSupervision & teachingFunding

Career profile

Tertiary and postgraduate education

1973
B.A. (Macquarie)

1974
B.A. (Honours) 1st Class (Macquarie)

1977
D. Phil. (Oxford)

1990
D. Sc. (Oxford)

Appointments (principal)

1977-1982
Lecturer/Senior lecturer in Psychology, University of New South Wales.

1982-1985
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Giessen, West Germany.

1985-1989
Associate Professor of Psychology University of New South Wales

1990-1998
Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales

1998-
Scientia Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales

Academic honours and awards

2004-present
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship

2004
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Australian Psychological Society
The Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (USA), Bellagio Study Centre  
Elected Fellow, Hungarian academy of Sciences

2003-
Co-Editor, Frontiers of Social Psychology Series, Psychology Press, New York

1996-1999
Special Investigator Award, Australian Research Council

1994-95, 1999
Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Germany

1990
Awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, University of Oxford

1987-
Elected Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, Australia

1986, 1990, 1994, 1999
Elected Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford

1990, 1994, 1999
Visiting Professor, University of Heidelberg

1982
Early Career Award, Australian Psychological Society

1974
Australian Psychological Society Honours Prize
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship

1974-1977
The Light Foundation Graduate Award, St. Catherine's College, Oxford

Membership in professional associations

Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Fellow, American Psychological Society

Society for Experimental Social Psychology

Society of Australasian Social Psychologists

International Society for Research on Emotions

International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships

European Association of Experimental Social Psychology.

International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

European Association of Personality Psychology

Selected administrative and professional activities

2002-present
Co-Editor, Frontiers of Social Psychology Series, Psychology Press, New York

1996-2003
Associate Editor, Cognition and Emotion

1998-
Convener and Organiser, annual International Sydney Symposia of Social Psychology

1997- 1998
ISSPR Award Committee

1996, 1997
SESP Dissertation Award Committee

1992 Oct.
Deputy Head and Acting Head, School of Psychology, UNSW

1988-1990
Elected member, Council of the University of NSW

1988-1995
Member of the Executive, Faculty of Biol. and Behavioural Sciences, UNSW

1987-1995
Head of School's Advisory Committee, Psychology, UNSW

1986-1994
Advisory Council, International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships

1987-1993
Associate Editor, Australian Journal of Psychology

1996-
Consulting Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

1988-1995
Consulting Editor, European Journal of Personality

1990-94; 1997-
Consulting Editor, European Journal of Social Psychology

1989-
Consulting Editor, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication

1997-
Consulting Editor, Personal Relationships

1982
Staff Association Executive,  UNSW

1976-1977
Psychology Board of Examiners, British Association of Occupational Therapists

1975-1976
Graduate Secretary, and Staff-Student C'ttee, St.Catherine's College, Oxford

Reviewing

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Consulting Editor 1996 -)

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Cognition and Emotion (Associate Editor 1996-2003)

Personality and Social Psychology Review (Consulting Editor 1995-)

Personal Relationships (Consulting Editor 1997-)

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Social Psychology Quarterly

European Journal of Social Psychology (Consulting Editor 1990-1994; 1998-)

European Journal of Personality (Consulting editor 1988-1995)

Cognitive Therapy and Research

Motivation and Emotion

British Journal of Social Psychology

British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Human Relations

Australian Journal of Psychology (Associate Editor 1987-1993)

New Zealand Journal of Psychology

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (Consulting Editor)

Pacific Basin Language & Communication Annual (Consulting Editor)

The Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Prentice-Hall, Inc. and other publishers; The Australian Research Council, and National Health & Medical Research Council, Australia Social Sciences Research Fund Committee, New Zealand; National Science Foundation,  USA

Academic visits

Stanford University, Visiting Scholar: 1980, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1994, 2007

University of Oxford, Visiting Scholar: 1981, 1983, 1984,1987,1990

Wolfson College, Oxford, elected Visiting Fellow/Visiting Scholar: 1987, 1990, 1994, 1999

University of Heidelberg, Visiting Professor: 1990, 1994 , 1999, 2003

Shorter academic visits and talks at the Universities of Mannheim, Giessen, Cologne, Geneva, Paris, Leuven, Bristol, Glasgow, Cambridge, Manchester, Tel Aviv, the Hebrew University, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Yale, Princeton, Ohio State, Illinois, South Carolina, Massachusetts-Amherst, and Hong Kong.

Collaboration

Professor Forgas has established and maintained extensive research contacts with colleagues overseas in the USA, Britain and Europe, leading to numerous collaborative research projects and publications, as the following summary shows: