Robert J. Sternberg is a Professor of Psychology at Cornell University and an Honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His BA is from Yale summa cum laude. His PhD is from Stanford and he holds 13 honorary doctorates. He is a past winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology and the William James and James McKeen Cattell Awards of the Association for Psychological Science. He is a former President of the American Psychological Association, the Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. According to Google Scholar, he has been cited over 230,000 times and has an h-index of 234.