Influences on My Early Academic Career.

Abstract

Anna Ingeborg Petursdottir (Fig. ​(Fig.1)1) received her Ph.D. in psychology from Western Michigan University and is currently an associate professor of psychology at Texas Christian University. Her primary area of research is verbal behavior and its acquisition. Her applied research interests include strategies for enhancing verbal behavior acquisition of children diagnosed with autism, whereas more basic research interests include typically developing children’s language acquisition and how research and theory in this area may translate into effective language interventions. Dr. Petursdottir’s research has been published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA), the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB), and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (TAVB), among other journals. She is past editor of TAVB and the current Publication Board Coordinator of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI). She also currently serves as the associate editor of JABA and an editorial board member of JEAB and the European Journal of Behavior Analysis, in addition to having served on the editorial boards of various other journals. Dr. Petursdottir is a past president of the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis.