David Faust

Professor at The University of Rhode Island

Affiliate Appointment, Brown University Medical School

Psychology and Law (e.g., methods for improving courtroom evaluations; cross-cultural applications and issues; science-legal interface)
Neuropsychology (e.g., strengths and limitations of assessment methodology and means of enhancing accuracy; cross-cultural issues in neuropsychological evaluation; legal applications)
Clinical Judgment and Decision Making (identification of practices that impede or enhance diagnostic and predictive accuracy; methods for improving decision making; increasing use of scientifically-based methods for maximizing accuracy)
Philosophy/Psychology of Science (examining scientists’ higher level decision making, such as theory evaluation, and developing methods for enhancing scientific judgment; meta-science, i.e., the science of science)
Methodology, especially applied issues in psychological and neuropsychological assessment

Distinguished Alumni Award, Alfred University
Honorary degree from Brown University
Named a founding member of the American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology
Recipient of the National Academy of Neuropsychology's first annual Award for Excellence in Research
Fellow, Division of Psychology and Law, American Psychological Association
Fellow, Division of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association
Fellow, American Psychological Society
Fellow, American Association of Applied and Preventative Psychology
Fellow, National Academy of Neuropsychology
Fellow, The Council for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
Named a Charter Member, American Board of Assessment Psychology
Served as Special Consultant to Rhode Island Attorney General on matters of psychology and law

Department of Psychology