Department Chair and Professor of Educational Psychology, College of Education, Temple University, USA.

James P. Byrnes PhD, BS, is Department Chair and Professor of Educational Psychology at the College of Education, Temple University. His main research interests are gender and ethnic differences in achievement, decision-making, children’s learning performance.

Professor Byrnes spoke on gender differences in risk taking, in particular with regard to attitudes to intellectual risk and the implications that these differences have for women’s career related decisions and performance, as well as for research and innovation strategies, at the Gender Summit 3 North America 2013 (GS3NA).