Chief Behavioral Scientist
National Policing Institute
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Karen L. Amendola, Ph.D. has served at the National Policing Institute* for over 25 years. Receiving and directing grants and contracts exceeding $12 million, she focuses on psychology applied to law enforcement. A leading expert on long work hours among law enforcement personnel, Amendola is currently examining organizational stress and ways to mitigate its harmful effects.
In 2021, Dr. Amendola was appointed to the California POST committee to examine the feasibility of assessing implicit and explicit bias in police hiring and was the lead author of “Development of a Work-Family Conflict Scale for Spouses or Partners of Police Officers,” published in Policing: An International Journal.
Dr. Amendola is a member of the American Psychological Association (and its divisions of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Psychologists in Public Service), the IACP and its section on Police Psychological Services, as well as the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology.
*formerly Police Foundation
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