He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas in 2003. He joined the faculty at UWO in 2005 after completing postdoctoral training in developmental psychopathology at Vanderbilt University. His research interests are in empathy-related processes, altruism, prosocial motivation, psychopathy, and aggression. Courses he teaches regularly include Research Methods and Advanced Research Methods at the graduate level, and Elementary Psychological Statistics, Research in Psychology, and History of Psychology at the undergraduate level.