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SUSAN NOLAN turned to psychology after suffering a career-ending accident on her second workday as a bicycle messenger. A native of Boston, she graduated from the College of Holy Cross and earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. Her research involves experimental investigations of the role of gender in the interpersonal consequences of depression, and studies on gender and mentoring in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. She served as a representative from the American Psychological Association (APA) to the United Nations in New York City for 5 years, and is the vice president for Diversity and International Relations of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). She also was the chair of the 2012 Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) Presidential Task Force on Statistical Literacy. Susan is past president of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) and a 2015–2016 U.S. Fulbright scholar. She is a fellow of the EPA, the APA, and the Association for Psychological Science.

Susan’s academic schedule allows her to pursue one travel adventure per year, a tradition that she relishes. Over the years she has ridden her bicycle across the United States (despite her earlier crash), swapped apartments to live in Montréal (her favorite North American city), and explored the Adriatic coast in an intermittently roadworthy 1985 Volkswagen Scirocco. She writes much of the book on her annual trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she and her husband, Ivan Bojanic, own a small house on the Vrbas River in the city of Banja Luka. They currently reside in Jersey City, New Jersey, where Susan roots feverishly, if quietly, for the Boston Red Sox.

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TOM HEINZEN was a 29-year-old college freshman; he began graduate school 8 days after the birth of his fourth daughter, and is still amazed that he and his wife somehow managed to stay married. A magna cum laude graduate of Rockford College, he earned his PhD in social psychology at the State University of New York at Albany in just 3 years.

He published his first book on frustration and creativity in government 2 years later; was a research associate in public policy until he was fired for arguing over the shape of a graph; consulted for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth; and then began a teaching career at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He founded the psychology club, established an undergraduate research conference, and has been awarded various teaching honors while continuing to write journal articles, books, plays, and two novels that support the teaching of general psychology and statistics. He is also the editor of Many Things to Tell You, a volume of poetry by elderly writers.

He has recently become enamored with the potential of game-based designs to influence students at risk for not completing their degrees. He belongs to numerous professional societies, including the APA, the EPA, the APS, and the New York Academy of Science, whose meeting place next to the former Twin Towers offers such a spectacular view of New York City that they have to cover the windows so the speakers don’t lose their focus during their talks.

His wife, Donna, is a physician assistant who has volunteered her time in relief work following hurricanes Mitch and Katrina; and their daughters work in public health, teaching, and medicine. Tom is an enthusiastic but mediocre tennis player and, as a Yankees, Cubs, and emerging Pittsburgh Pirates fan, sympathizes with Susan’s tortured New England loyalties.