B.S.E.E. (Electrical Engineering) Carnegie Mellon University
M.A. (Psychology), University of Michigan
Ph.D. (Psychology), University of Michigan

         Dr. Sorkin joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Florida in 1988, and served as Department Chair from 1988 through 1995. During 1994-95 he was chair of the National Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, and during 1995-96 was the Norman L. Munn Distinguished Scholar in Psychology at Flinders University of South Australia. Prior to 1988, he had been a professor at Purdue University in W. Lafayette, Indiana, and an electrical engineer at Martin-Marietta Corporation in Maryland. He has served as director of the Psychobiology Program of the National Science Foundation and as manager of the Perception and Cognition program of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He has published articles on auditory and visual perception (J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., Perception & Psychophysics), human factors (Human Factors), and individual and group decision making (Psychological Review, Psychological Science, Org. Behav. & Human Dec. Proc., J. Behav. Dec. Making), and is coauthor (with B. Kantowitz) of a Human Factors textbook. His recent research applied optimal detection models to advice acquisition and team deliberation, and this work has resulted in several dissertations, articles, and patent applications. From 2005 through 2007, Dr. Sorkin was on leave from the university and served as Senior Scientist for Cognitive Engineering at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Dr. Sorkin and his wife Nancy have sailed their yacht from Florida to Canada (up and down the Atlantic Coast and through the Great Lakes) and are now keeping it on Lake Michigan.