Past Directors & Governors
Former chairs, vice-chairs, and governors of the Institute
Biographical detail is drawn from Institute records and published sources. Records from earlier periods may be incomplete.
Past Directors and Governors
Prof. Alistair W. Croft
Foundation Professor of Perceptual Psychology, University of St Andrews. Author of The Classification of Ambiguous Stimuli (1971) and Response Patterns in Projective Assessment (1978). The Croft Classification System remains the foundation of the Institute’s methodological framework. Died 2004.
Dr. Helena M. Voss
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Perceptual Studies, Zürich. Led the development of the Full Inkblot Matrix (FIM-800). Her field notebooks from 1973–1977 are held in the Institute’s archive and are designated as not available for viewing. The reason for this restriction is not documented.
Prof. Richard S. Taneja
Professor of Psychometric Method, University of Chicago (Emeritus). Succeeded Prof. Croft as Chair of the Institute in 1989. His cross-population variance research directly informs distributional parity standards in third-party assessment certification.
Prof. Judith K. Alpern
Professor Emerita of Cognitive Science, Stanford University. Succeeded Dr. Voss as Vice-Chair in 2001. Research on response latency and semantic categorisation. Her unpublished work on temporal classification patterns is held in the Institute’s archive.