David M. Regan is a Canadian psychologist, currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at

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and a Fellow of the

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, Royal Society of Canada, and

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. From 1978 to 1983, he was York's I. W. Killam Research Professor. Regan was elected foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. In 2003, Regan was awarded the Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science from the

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