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Richard S. Marken, Ph.D., is a research psychologist and human factors engineer. Dr. Marken has chaired the Department of Psychology at Augsburg College, consulted at Honeywell, Inc. on statistical, methodological and human factors issues, and has been an engineering specialist at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo where he developed methods for evaluating human-computer interface designs. He is currently a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. Dr. Marken is the author of two books and over 40 papers on control system theory and psychology.