Adapting authors:
Dr Andrew Campbell is a Lecturer in Psychology at The University of Sydney and has been conducting research into the use of the Internet, computer games and multimedia in regards to their impact and influence on human behaviour. Dr. Steven Cumming. Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Behavioural and Community Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Areas of expertise: clinical and cognitive psychology.
Andrew is the Director of Prometheus (www.prometheus.net.au), a unique research group located in the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Sydney. Prometheus is dedicated to the research and application of technology towards the advancement of mental health treatments in such disorders as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD), depression, anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and identity formation of children and adolescents. He is also a registered psychologist in
Dr Fiona J. Wilkes. Associate Lecturer, University of Western Sydney, Undergraduate Course Advisor for School of Psychology at UWS. Fiona has been working in and researching psychology for the last 13 years. Her current research areas include clinical assessment of olfaction and gustation in children and impact of health and disease on sensory functioning with a focus on indigenous children.
Original authors:
Richard J. Gerrig is a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University. Before joining the Stony Brook faculty, he taught at Yale University, where he was awarded the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. His research on cognitive psychological aspects of language use has been widely published. One line of work examines the mental processes that underlie efficient communication. A second research program considers the cognitive and emotional changes readers experience when they are transported to the worlds of stories. His book Experiencing Narrative Worlds was published by Yale University Press. Richard is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He is also an associate editor of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. He is the proud father of Alexandra, who at age 16 provides substantial and valuable advice about many aspects of psychology and life in the 21st century. Life on Long Island is greatly enhanced by the guidance and support of Timothy Peterson.
Philip G. Zimbardo is an emeritus professor of psychology at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1968, after earlier teaching at Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University. He also continues to teach at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey. Zimbardo is internationally recognized as the “voice and face of contemporary psychology” through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment. His current research interests are in the domain of experimental social psychology, with a scattered emphasis on everything interesting to study from shyness to time perspective, persuasion, cults, madness, violenc