About: Life Fellows

Craig A. Anderson received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980, joining Rice University’s faculty. He moved to Iowa State University as Chair of the Department of Psychology in 1999, where he was awarded a Distinguished Professorship in 2005. Craig has been President of ISRA, Editor-in-Chief of Aggressive Behavior. His aggression research focuses on the development and testing of the General Aggression Model, initially based on experimental, correlational, and longitudinal studies of pain, ambient temperature, and media effects on aggression. Awards received by Craig include the Kurt Lewin Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2017), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Distinguished Scholar Award (2018), and the American Psychological Association’s Division 46 Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology & Technology award (2021). His most recent work involves developing a model of the multiple ways in which rapid climate change (global warming) affects violent behavior.

Barbara Krahé received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Bonn, Germany, and her Habilitation (higher doctorate) from the University of Landau, Germany. After positions at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen, Landau, Mainz, the University of Sussex, and the Free University of Berlin, she was appointed to a full professor at the University of Potsdam, from which she retired in 2021. Her research interests cover sexual aggression, media violence effects, the development of aggressive behavior, aggressive driving, and the social perception of sexual violence. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the British Psychological Society, and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and the Humanities. In 2015, she received the German Psychology Prize for her work on aggression. She was ISRA President from 2018-2020 and is Associate Editor of Aggressive Behavior. Her textbook The social psychology of aggression is currently prepared for its 4th edition.

Menno Kruk was born in the Netherlands in 1944. He studied biology at Leiden University with majors in neurochemistry and physiology. Following military service, Menno did a PhD on “the origins of hypothalamic aggression in the rat.” He continued in Leiden as a behavioral pharmacologist and ethologist, while teaching on brain-behavior relationships. His team published detailed maps of brain areas involved in fighting, flight and grooming, and studied their neural connections and pharmacology. The results encouraged students of DJ Anderson (CalTech) to identify the hypothalamic neurons crucial to aggression 30 years later. With Jozsef Haller, Menno investigated the effects of corticosteroid feedback to the brain on aggression. With Katja Bertsch and colleagues, he published on similar effects in human volunteers. Menno was president of the Dutch Ethological Society, the Dutch Brain and Behavior Study-group and ISRA. He organized an ISRA meeting in Zeist (1983). He started the Kirsti Lagerspetz scheme and initiated the Young Investigator Awards. To advance ISRA’s public visibility he created ISRA’s logo and information flyer.