Psychological Science (Fourth Edition)
Michael S. Gazzaniga is the Director of the Sage Center for the study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Roger Sperry, and had primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. He has established Centers for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell Medical School, the University of California, Davis, and at Dartmouth. He is founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and founding editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He was a member of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001–2009.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.Todd F. Heatherton (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is the Lincoln Filene Professor in Human Relations in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He teaches introductory psychology every year. His recent research takes a social brain sciences approach, which combines theories and methods of evolutionary psychology, social cognition, and cognitive neuroscience to examine the neural underpinnings of social behavior. He was elected president of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in 2011 and has served on the executive committees of the Association of Researchers in Personality and the International Society of Self and Identity. He received the Petra Shattuck Award for Teaching Excellence from the Harvard Extension School in 1994, the McLane Fellowship from Dartmouth College in 1997, and the Friedman Family Fellowship from Dartmouth College in 2001. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.Diane Halpern (Ph.D.,  University of Cincinnati) is Professor of  Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. She has won many awards for her teaching and research,  including the 2002 Outstanding Professor Award  from the Western Psychological Association, the  1999 American Psychological Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996 Distinguished Career Award for Contributions to Education given by the American Psychological Association, the  California State University’s State-Wide  Outstanding Professor Award. Halpern was  president of the American Psychological  Association in 2004 and is a past president of  the Society for Teaching of Psychology. She is  the author of: Thought and Knowledge: An  Introduction to Critical Thinking and  Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities. She is currently chairing an APA Taskforce on  redesigning undergraduate education in  psychology. Her edited book, Undergraduate  Education in Psychology: A Blueprint for the  Future of the Discipline (APA Books) will  be published in 2009.