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2004 Playing for Keeps International Conference
Conference Co-Chairs

Dr. Singer has authored more than 250 technical articles on thought processes, imagery, personality, and psychotherapy as well as on children's play and the effects of television. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Sciences. He has been President of the Eastern Psychological Association; President of the Division of Personality and Social Psychology of the American Psychological Association, Chair of the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association, President of the Division of Psychology of the Arts of that organization. Prof. Singer has served as principal investigator for many federal and private foundation grants. For ten years he was Senior Consultant to the Open Laboratory on Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes supported by the MacArthur Foundation at the University of California's Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in San Francisco. Currently he is Editor of the journal, Imagination, Cognition and Personality.

Dr. Singer has written or edited more than 15 books, including The Inner World of Daydreaming; The Power of Human Imagination; The Stream of Consciousness; Television, Imagination and Aggression; A Study of Preschoolers; Repression and Dissociation; The House of Make-believe: Children's Play and the Developing Imagination; The Human Personality; The Parents' Guide: Use TV to Your Child's Advantage; Imagery Methods in Psychotherapy and Behavior Modification; Mind, Brain and Complex Adaptive Systems, Handbook of Children and the Media, Make-Believe:Games and Exercises for Children's Imagination.


Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

--Mark Twain, author

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