Biografisk notat

Wayne Weiten has taught at the College of DuPage, Santa Clara University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division 2 of the American Psychological Association and the College of DuPage. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Midwestern Psychological Association, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology in 1991. Dr. Weiten also is a former president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. In 2006, one of the six national teaching awards given annually by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology was named in his honor. Dr. Weiten has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision-making, attribution theory, pressure as a form of stress and the technology of textbooks. A graduate of Bradley University, he received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1981. Regan A. R. Gurung is the chair of the psychology department at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. His research interests include stress and coping, changing health behaviors, and the media and health. He currently teaches courses in health psychology and culture, development, and health and has published widely in journals such as Psychological Review. Gurung has won several teaching awards, most recently the University of Wisconsin Green Bay's 2004 Founders Association Award for Excellence.