Elizabeth A. Phelps - Psychological Science (Seventh Edition)

ELIZABETH (LIZ) A. PHELPS is the Pershing Square professor of human neuroscience at Harvard University. Her career is characterized by distinguished scholarship and cutting-edge research in cognitive neuroscience, along with her passion to communicate the excitement of psychology to students by teaching introductory psychology nearly every year of her career. The primary inspiration behind her research is the observation that emotions color our lives, and even subtle, everyday variations in our emotional experience can alter our thoughts and actions. Liz received her PhD from Princeton University and served on the faculty of Yale University and New York University. Professor Phelps is the recipient of the 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Experimental Psychology, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served on several distinguished boards and has served as the president of three societies, including Society for Neuroeconomics, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

ELLIOT T. BERKMAN is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. He teaches social psychology, introductory psychology, and graduate courses in statistics and neuroimaging. His research is about the motivational and cognitive factors that contribute to success and failure in real-world goals such as cigarette smoking cessation and dieting. His teaching, research, and mentorship have been recognized with the APS Janet Taylor Spence Transformative Early Career Award, the Excellence in Graduate Mentorship Award from the University of Oregon, the Social-Personality Health Network Early Career Award, the Joseph A. Gengerelli Distinguished Dissertation Award, the UCLA Social Psychology Dissertation Award, the Arthur J. Woodward Peer Mentoring Award, and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. He received his PhD in 2010 from the University of California, Los Angeles. His blog, The Motivated Brain, is located at Psychology Today, and he tweets as @Psychologician.

MICHAEL S. GAZZANIGA is distinguished professor and director of the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Roger Sperry and had primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. He has carried out extensive studies on both subhuman primate and human behavior and cognition. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and also a founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. For 20 years he directed the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, and he serves as editor in chief of the major reference text The Cognitive Neurosciences. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has written many notable books, including, most recently, Psychological Science, 6e; Cognitive Neuroscience, 5e; and The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind.