James L. Farr

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Biblio: James L. Farr received his Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Maryland. Beginning in 1971 until his retirement in 2013, he was a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychology of The Pennsylvania State University, where he is now Professor of Psychology Emeritus. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom), the University of Western Australia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Giessen (Germany). His primary research interests are performance appraisal and feedback, personnel selection, the older worker, and innovation and creativity in work settings. Dr. Farr is the author or editor of more than 85 publications in professional journals and books, including The Measurement of Work Performance (with Frank Landy; Academic Press, 1983), Innovation and Creativity at Work: Psychological and Organizational Strategies (coedited with Michael West; John Wiley & Sons, 1990), Personnel Selection and Assessment: Individual and Organizational Perspectives (co-edited with Heinz Schuler and Mike Smith; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993), and Handbook of Employee Selection (co-edited with Nancy T. Tippins; Routledge, 2010). He was the editor of Human Performance from 2000–2006 and has been a member of the editorial boards of numerous other professional journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Jour- nal of Business and Psychology. Active in a number of professional organizations, Dr. Farr was president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in 1996–1997 and has served in a variety of other positions for SIOP. He was an elected member of the Board of Representatives for the American Psychological Association (APA) from 1993–1996 and 2002–2004, representing SIOP. He is an