Sandra E. Hockenbury is a science writer who specializes in psychology. Sandy received her B.A. from Shimer College and her M.A. from the University of Chicago, where she was also a research associate at the Institute of Social and Behavioral Pathology. Prior to co-authoring Psychology and Discovering Psychology, Sandy worked for several years as a psychology editor in both academic and college textbook publishing. Sandy has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at Tulsa Community College.

Sandy’s areas of interest include positive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and the intersection of Buddhist philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology. She is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). An avid hiker, Sandy has twice served as a volunteer with Nomads Clinic, a nonprofit organization that brings medical care to remote areas in the Himalayan regions of Nepal and the Tibetan Plateau.

Susan A. Nolan is Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Susan researches interpersonal consequences of mental illness, and the role of gender in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is the 2014-2015 President of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), and is a Fellow of both EPA and the American Psychological Association (APA). She holds an A.B. from the College of the Holy Cross and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Susan is fascinated by the applications of psychology to the “real world,” both locally and globally. She served as a representative from the APA to the United Nations for five years, and is the Vice President for Diversity and International Relations of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She also is an avid traveler. Susan uses the examples she encounters through these experiences in the classroom, in this textbook, and in the two statistics textbooks that she co-authors.

Don H. Hockenbury recently retired after 36 years of teaching psychology at Tulsa Community College’s Northeast Campus. As one of the founding faculty that opened the Northeast Campus in the fall of 1978, more than 10,000 students experienced Don’s enthusiastic teaching style over the ensuing decades. Beginning in 1989, Don’s classroom expanded to a national level as he and Sandy Hockenbury began the exciting—but daunting—task of writing the first edition of Psychology. In doing so, Don and Sandy were committed to creating an introductory psychology text that actively engaged diverse students in much the same way that Don shared his passion for psychology in the classroom. After seven years of almost nonstop work, the first edition of Hockenbury & Hockenbury Psychology was published in December 1996, followed a year later by the first edition of Discovering Psychology. In co-authoring the first five editions of Psychology and Discovering Psychology, Don and Sandy’s texts were used by millions of students. Although Don is no longer actively involved in classroom teaching, his passion for teaching others about the most exciting science that exists remains as strong as ever.