William Revelle

American academic

William Roger Revelle (born c. 1944) is a psychology professor at Northwestern University working in personality psychology. Revelle studies the biological basis of personality and motivation, psychometric theory, the structure of daily mood, and models of attention and memory.

Revelle was raised in La Jolla, California. Revelle graduated from Pomona College in 1965, abandoning a mathematics major in favor of psychology. He spent two years in Sarawak, Malaysia, as a volunteer in the Peace Corps before earning his PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1973. He became a member of the Northwestern Faculty in 1973.

Revelle has previously served as the President (2005 2009) of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), the President (2008 2009) of the Association for Research in Personality (ARP), and the President (1984) of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP). Currently, he is vice chair of the Governing Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, having previously served as Chair (2009 2012). He also serves as the President (2018–present) of the International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR). Additionally, he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS; 1996–present), the Association for Psychological Science (APS; 1994–present), the American Psychological Association (APA Division 5; 2011–present), and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP; 2015–present). He resides in Evanston, Illinois.