Psychology, 7th Edition

Author Biographies

Doug Bernstein completed his bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1964, and his masters and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Northwestern University in 1966 and 1968, respectively. From 1968 to 1998, he was on the psychology faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and served both as Associate Department Head and Director of Introductory Psychology. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Courtesy Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, and Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey, in Guildford, England. He is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.

Lou Penner received his B.A. and M.A. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He then moved to East Lansing Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. at Michigan State University in social psychology in 1969. That same year he joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at the University of South Florida, where he still teaches. From 1986 to 1993, Penner was Chair of his Department and is currently Chair of his university's Institutional Review Board for social and behavioral research. Penner is currently a consulting editor for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and a fellow of both the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the America Psychological Society. He is the current President-elect of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association).

Alison Clarke-Stewart received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University in 1972. Dr. Clarke-Stewart is a developmental psychologist whose work focuses on child development. She has taught graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of child and infant development at the University of Chicago and the University of California and written or contributed to five basic textbooks in child development, as well as conducting many studies in these areas. She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development and a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) in 1982 and at Wolfson College (Oxford) in 1989. She is a professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and Associate Dean of Research at the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine.

Edward Roy is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Pathology (College of Medicine) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in biological psychology at the University of Massachusetts and did postdoctoral work at The Rockefeller University. His research has been in several areas of biological psychology, including hormones and behavior, psychopharmacology, and neuroimmunology.


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