The US author team

MICHAEL W. PASSER
Michael Passer coordinates the introductory psychology program at the University of Washington, which enrolls more than 3,000 students per year. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Rochester, his Ph.D. from UCLA in social psychology, and has been a faculty member at the University of Washington since 1977. A former Danforth Foundation Fellow and U.W. Distinguished Teaching Award finalist, Dr. Passer has had a career-long love of teaching. He teaches introductory psychology twice yearly and also has taught courses in research methods, social psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, and attribution theory. Dr. Passer developed and annually offers a graduate course on Teaching of Psychology, which prepares students for their careers in the college classroom. He has published over 20 scientific articles and chapters, primarily in the areas of attribution, stress, and anxiety.

RONALD E. SMITH
Ronald Smith is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, where he has served as Director of Clinical Psychology Training and as Head of the Social Psychology and Personality area. He received his Bachelors degree from Marquette University and his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. Dr. Smith has held faculty positions at Purdue University and at Washington, as well as visiting appointments at Marquette University, the University of Hawaii, the University of New Mexico, and UCLA. His major research interests are in personality, stress and coping, and in performance enhancement research and intervention. Dr. Smith is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters in his areas of interest and has authored or co-authored 19 books on introductory psychology, stress and stress management, sport psychology, and human performance enhancement.

The European author team

NIGEL J. HOLT, D.Phil.
Nigel Holt is a senior lecturer in psychology at Bath Spa University in Somerset, UK. Bath Spa University is one of Britain’s youngest Universities, gaining full university status in 2005. It is a ‘teaching led’ university meaning that it aims to provide courses of the highest quality, whose content and delivery are informed by teaching excellence and focused scholarship. Dr Holt’s first degree from the University of Reading was followed by a D.Phil. from the University of York where he investigated the perceptual lateralization of audio-visual stimuli. A brief spell in industry provided him with clear evidence that teaching and research in a university environment were the place for him. His current post followed a post-doc in speech perception. His university roles include convening and leading a compulsory module at level 1. He also has the opportunity to teach a level 2 course on cognitive psychology, and a final year option which he calls Hearing, Speech and Language, where he has the chance to indulge his interests in the auditory system. Outside university, he examines at a senior level for a major exam board, is an external university examiner, and is a commissioning editor for a popular psychology magazine in between writing other books. He does his best to find time to research speech perception and how sound and other areas of cognition interact.

ANDREW J. BREMNER, D.Phil.
Andy completed his first degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and then decided to stay and submit a D.Phil. (three years later) on ‘Object representation in infancy and early childhood’ under the supervision of Professor Peter Bryant. Following two post-doctoral appointments in London and Brussels in which he undertook further research into cognitive development in early life, Andy took up the position of lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he has now been for three years. Andy conducts research into a variety of questions surrounding perceptual and cognitive development and cognitive neuroscience. Particular research interests include object recognition in infancy, the development of memory and cognitive control in the early preschool years, the development of spatial representations of the body and the environment in infancy and childhood, and the development of multiisensory perceptual processes. He also gets out to the pub in the evening as much as he can.

MICHAEL L. W. VliekLIEK, Ph.D.
Michael is a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. After finishing his Masters at the University of Amsterdam, he decided to stay on to work on his Ph.D. thesis
on the subject of social comparison processes, followed by a position as lecturer at the same university (where he has now been for over ten years). Michael has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex, England. His main research interests include social comparison and the dynamics of self-evaluation, intra-group processes and the influence of time in motivational processes.

ED SUTHERLAND
Ed completed his first degree at the University of Bangor and his Ph.D. at the University of Wolverhampton under the supervision of Prof. Ken Manktelow. He then filled the next few years with a research post at the University of Reading and his first lectureship at the University of Derby. He is currently lecturer in cognitive psychology at the University of Leeds where he has been for nearly ten years. His current research interests are on the role of emotion in reasoning and on affective computing. When not working he spends his time with his family and on the river bank.