Joe Rodgers is a retired Quantitative Psychologist, an emeritus faculty member of the University of Oklahoma and Vanderbilt University.  He retired from the University of Oklahoma in summer, 2012, after 31 years of service; at OU he is George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emeritus in the OU Psychology Department.  In 2012 he moved to Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College as director of the Quantitative Methods program, and retired in 2021. He is Emeritus Professor in Vanderbilt’s Department of Psychology and Human Development.  He received his Ph.D. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981, with a minor in Biostatistics.  He has held visiting positions at Ohio State, University of Hawaii, UNC, Duke, University of Southern Denmark, and University of Pennsylvania.  His research team was continuously funded by NIH from 1987 until 2025 to develop mathematical models of intellectual development across the lifespan, young adult fertility, and family/friendship interactions.  His methodological interests include mathematical modeling, resampling theory, quasi-experimental design, exploratory data analysis, and multidimensional scaling.  He was the editor of the applied methods journal Multivariate Behavioral Research from 2006 to 2011, and is a past-president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, the Society for the Study of Social Biology, and two of APA’s divisions, Population and Environmental Psychology, and Quantitative and Qualitative Methods.  He is a fellow of APA, APS, and AAAS.  His wife Jacci retired as an Associate Dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt, and former chair of Accounting at Oklahoma City University.  They have two adult daughters; Rachel works as a Foreign Service Officer in the US State Department, currently service the consulate in Juarez, Mexico; Naomi earned a Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Southern California, and is currently on the faculty at Occidental College in Los Angeles.