Leona Aiken

Leona Aiken is President’s Professor of psychology at Arizona State University (ASU). In 1998 she became the founding chair of the Ph.D. concentration in Quantitative Methods in Psychology at ASU. Aiken's research spans both method and substance in psychology. Her methodological work has in the main focused on models containing continuous variable interactions. She is co-author with Stephen West of the book "Multiple Regression: Testing and interpreting interactions." She is also co-author with Jacob Cohen, Patricia Cohen, and Stephen West of the third edition of "Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences." Her work on continuous variable interactions includes interactions in both the measured and latent variable frameworks. Her substantive research focuses on women's health protective behavior across the lifespan. She has been recognized repeatedly for her teaching and mentoring, most recently as ASU Outstanding Graduate Mentor, ASU Professor of the Year, and as an ASU President’s Professor. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Psychological Methods, Multivariate Behavioral Research, and the American Psychologist. She is past president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Western Psychological Association and the Division of Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics of the American Psychological Association.