A. Timothy Church (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1985) is Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology at Washington State University. His primary research interests include personality and its measurement across cultures, cross-cultural and indigenous psychology, and the integration of trait and cultural psychology perspectives in the study of personality across cultures. His cross-cultural research on these topics has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Mental Health in the United States. His previous publications in these areas include invited reviews in Current Opinion in Psychology (2016), Advances in Culture and Psychology (2012), Perspectives on Psychological Science (2010), Social and Personality Compass (2009), and Journal of Personality (2000, 2009). He is a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Journal of Personality, Journal of Research in Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Psychological Science, and European Journal of Personality.
Jüri Allik is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Tartu. His primary field of research is visual psychophysics, especially perception of visual motion. His recent research is more concentrated on personality, emotions, intelligence, and cross-cultural comparisons. He is a member of Estonian, Finnish, and European Academies of Science.
Jérôme Rossier (PhD) is Full Professor of Vocational and Counseling Psychology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is Editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance and a member of several editorial boards. His teaching and research areas include counseling, personality, and cross-cultural psychology. He has initiated and participated in several multinational studies in Africa, published a great number of scientific contributions, and coedited the Handbook of life design: From practice to theory and from theory to practice.
Peter B. Smith (PhD, Cambridge, 1962) is Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is first author or editor of 10 books and more than 200 other publications in the fields of social and organizational psychology. He has served as Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and as President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. His research has mostly focused upon cultural differences in leadership and conformity, including culturally distinctive aspects such as Chinese guanxi.
Fons J. R. van de Vijver is Professor of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has (co)authored 450 publications, mainly about bias and equivalence, psychological acculturation and multiculturalism, cognitive similarities and differences, response styles, translations, and adaptations. He is the former Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and serves on the board of various journals. He is President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He is recipient of several Dutch and international prizes for his cross-cultural work.
Guido Alessandri is Professor of Psychology at Sapienza, the University of Rome, Italy, where he received his PhD in Personality and Social Psychology. His primary research interests focus on the link between personality traits and organizational outcomes, psychological measurement, and multivariate statistics.
Jüri Allik is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Tartu. His primary field of research is visual psychophysics, especially perception of visual motion. His recent research is more concentrated on personality, emotions, intelligence, and cross-cultural comparisons. He is a member of Estonian, Finnish, and European Academies of Science.
Algae K. Y. Au is a PhD candidate in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include neurocognitive, social, and cross-cultural psychology. She has published a few articles in these areas.
R. Thora Bjornsdottir is a PhD student at the University of Toronto. She is interested in the relationship between social group membership (e.g., social class, nationality, sexual orientation) and person perception. Her research focuses on how perceivers’ group memberships affect their impressions of other people and how targets’ group memberships affect the impressions they elicit.
Helen C. Boucher received her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Associate Professor at Bates College. Her research concerns how the self is shaped by social forces, including cues in the immediate environment, the significant others in our lives, and the larger culture we live in.
Andrea S. Camperio Ciani (PhD, University of Florence, 1986) is Professor of Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Padova, Italy. His primary research interests include evolution of personality, sexual strategies, and sexual orientation, including genetic modeling for the maintenance of homosexuality in the population. He is also a consultant in forensic cases involving sexual crimes.
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters on the social psychology of bilingualism and biculturalism, personality and social behavior in cultural contexts, and cultural diversity and mental health.
Fanny M. Cheung (PhD, University of Minnesota) is Choh-ming Li Professor of Psychology and Vice President (Research) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. After translating and standardizing the Chinese MMPI, Cheung developed the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI). Her work illustrated the need for incorporating cultural perspectives in personality research and was recognized in international awards from the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology.
Shu Fai Cheung is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Macau. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked on the development and restandardization of the CPAI-2 as a postdoctoral fellow. His research includes personality assessment, meta-analysis, structural equation modeling, and religious beliefs.
Valery Chirkov (PhD) is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is interested in examining relationships among human autonomy, culture, and people’s optimal functioning within the context of immigration. He is also interested in the philosophy and methodology of psychological research, especially their cultural aspects.
A. Timothy Church (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1985) is Professor Emeritus of Counseling Psychology at Washington State University. His primary research interests include personality and its measurement across cultures, cross-cultural and indigenous psychology, and the integration of trait and cultural psychology perspectives in the study of personality across cultures.
Susan E. Cross (PhD, University of Michigan, 1990) is Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University. Her research interests include cultural perspectives on the self and close relationships (focused on East Asia and the United States) and the dynamics of cultures of honor (focused on Turkey and the United States).
Donatien Dahourou (PhD) is a psychologist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Ouaga 1, Prof. Joseph Ki-Zerbo, in Burkina Faso. His research is focused on decision-making processes, social judgment, and personality psychology. Since 2011, he has coordinated the professional MSc in management of work relationships at the University of Ouaga 1.
Boele De Raad is Emeritus Professor at University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is President of the World Association for Personality and Editor of the International Journal of Personality Psychology. He is Founding Member of both the European Association of Personality (EAPP) and of the European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA) and has been President of both these associations.
Matthew J. Easterbrook (PhD) is a social psychologist and Lecturer at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. His research investigates the influence of social, cultural, and societal contexts on identity, motivation, and group processes, with a particular focus on inequality and well-being.
Tammy English is Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her BA at Swarthmore College, her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and a National Institute on Aging-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. English’s research is focused on the interplay between emotion regulation, sociocultural factors, and well-being.
Weiqiao Fan is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Psychological Testing and Assessment at the Shanghai Normal University, China. He received his PhD in Educational Psychology from The University of Hong Kong and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Fan’s research includes personality assessment, career counseling and development, and intellectual styles.
Jessica R. Fernandez is a doctoral student in the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests focus on motivations in health decision making and health behaviors, social norm variance across groups and cultures, and the effects of self-regulatory systems on individual well-being.
Velichko H. Fetvadjiev (PhD, Tilburg University, the Netherlands) is Lecturer in Cross-Cultural Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research deals with personality, language, values, and culture, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. His latest project examines cultural similarities and differences in the consistency and predictability of behavior.
David C. Funder is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He has published on accuracy in personality judgment and the psychological assessment of situations. Funder received his PhD degree from Stanford University. He is the author of Personality Judgment (1998) and The Personality Puzzle (7th edition, 2016).
Michele J. Gelfand is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of the strength of social norms and their consequences for societies, states, organizations, and individuals, culture and conflict and negotiation, and diversity.
Vladas Griskevicius is the Carson Family Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He uses experimental methods to study person by situation interactions. He has expertise in the areas of social influence, decision making, and evolutionary psychology.
Esther Guillaume (PhD) is Lecturer of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and Chapman University, Orange, California. She initiated the first large-scale cross-cultural assessment of situations, The International Situations Project. Her research has focused on cross-cultural aspects of research methodology, behavior, personality, and situational experiences.
Jen Guo is a doctoral student in Personality and Health Psychology at Northwestern University. Her research involves an interdisciplinary approach to examining personality across the life span. Specifically, Jen uses qualitative and quantitative methodologies to study how individual variations in people’s life stories are associated with psychological and physiological well-being.
Jesse R. Harrington is a doctoral student and National Science Foundation Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include cultural differences in social norm strength (tightness-looseness) across various cultural designations (nations, states, social classes, and organizations), conflict cultures with organizations, and cultural differences in power.
Jia He (PhD) is a Humboldt postdoctoral researcher in the German Institute for International Educational Research, Germany. She was a Thomas J. Alexander Fellow in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) after obtaining her PhD in Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her research focus involves data comparability in large-scale international surveys with innovative designs and sophisticated psychometric methods.
Carin Hill (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg. She has received her Y-rating from the South African National Research Foundation and has published 16 peer-reviewed articles. Her main research interests are psychometrics, cross-cultural research, personality, and work-related well-being.
Markus Jokela (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. He has a background in psychology and epidemiology, and his research focuses on the interplay between psychological characteristics of individuals and dynamics of populations.
Marcia S. Katigbak (PhD, Washington State University) was a faculty research associate at Washington State University. Her research interests include cross-cultural and indigenous psychology, culture and personality, and psychological measurement. She has published widely on these topics in journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Hyunji Kim (PhD) is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Psychology at York University, Canada. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees in Psychology from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include culture, personality, and well-being.
Young-Hoon Kim is Underwood Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Yonsei University, South Korea. His research focuses on both within- and between-cultural differences in how people perceive the self and its consequences for achievement motivation, performance, mental health, and moral behavior. He has published more than 30 journal articles and chapters on cross-cultural and positive psychology.
Heewon Kwon is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at Yonsei University, South Korea. She has been involved in various cultural psychology research projects addressing different power tactics, emotion regulation strategies, and self-perception across cultures, especially face and dignity cultures.
Ben Chun Pan Lam received his PhD in Psychology at Iowa State University. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Hong Kong. His current research focuses on how culture influences the development and maintenance of intimate relationships.
Jeong Min Lee is a PhD candidate in Social Psychology at the University of Delaware. Her research interests lie in cultural/cross-cultural psychology and close relationships. She is currently examining how East Asian and Western cultural contexts differ in the exchange of feedback in friendship interactions.
Raymond A. Mar is an Associate Professor of Psychology at York University (Toronto), where he often conducts research on how imagined experiences might affect real-world cognition and emotion. He has examined whether engaging with narratives (e.g., in books and films) predicts better social cognitive abilities and remains interested in the potential effects of a diverse range of media, including video games and graphic novels.
Dan P. McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University, where he also directs the Foley Center for the Study of Lives. He is the author of George W. Bush and the redemptive dream: A psychological portrait (2011) and The art and science of personality development (2015).
Robert R. McCrae, Gloucester, Massachusetts, received his PhD in Personality Psychology from Boston University in 1976. He is author of the NEO Inventories and of Personality in adulthood: A Five-Factor Theory perspective. With colleagues from around the world, he has organized and participated in several multinational projects on personality.
Deon Meiring is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He received his PhD from Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 2007. His research focuses on personality measurement in the workplace, cross-cultural assessment, personnel selection, assessment centers, situational judgment testing, and applied cross-cultural methodology.
Boris Mlačić (PhD) is a research advisor at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar in Zagreb and Full Professor in the Department of Psychology, College of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb and the Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Croatia. He was awarded a Fulbright Research Award (2009/2010) at the Oregon Research Institute and was a recipient of the Croatian Annual National Award for Science for 1999. His research focuses on individual differences, the lexical approach in personality psychology, the Big-Five model, and personality development.
Beth Morling (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1996) is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. Dr. Morling’s dual focus is on undergraduate teaching and cultural psychology research. She was a Fulbright scholar to Kyoto, Japan. She has published a textbook on research methods as well as numerous articles and chapters.
Damian R. Murray (PhD) is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tulane University. His central research program investigates the implications of perceived threats for social behavior and individual differences. His research is informed by social, personality, cultural, and evolutionary approaches to human cognition and behavior.
Khalidha Nasiri is completing a Psychology major and Biology minor degree at York University. Her research interests include how cultural differences in genetic, neurobiological, and social factors can influence decision making, with respect to health-related behaviors. She is also involved with political and social justice and health advocacy causes.
Jan Alewyn Nel (PhD, North-West University) is Associate Professor in Industrial Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He conducts cross-cultural research on personality, social desirability, and other topics and has over 30 publications. He has a Y2-rating from the National Research Foundation and is Section Editor of the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology.
Abdoulaye Ouedraogo (PhD) is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Ouaga 1, Burkina Faso, an invited Lecturer at the Cheik Anta Diop University, Senegal, and a certified practitioner and Director of a private counseling center (CeBi2E). His research focuses on adult education and personality disorders in the African context.
Anu Realo (PhD) is Professor of Personality and Social Psychology at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. She is interested in personality and cross-cultural psychology and has conducted research on cultural and individual variation in personality traits, emotional experience, social capital, and subjective well-being.
Peter J. Rentfrow (PhD) is Reader at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. His research concerns person-environment interactions and focuses on the ways in which personality is expressed in everything from people’s preferences for music to the places in which they live.
Jérôme Rossier (PhD) is Full Professor of Vocational and Counseling Psychology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the Editor of the International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance and member of several editorial boards. His teaching and research areas include counseling, personality, and cross-cultural psychology. He initiated and participated to several multinational studies in Africa.
Nicholas O. Rule is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto and the Canada Research Chair in Social Perception and Cognition. He received the 2015 Early Career Award from the International Association for Intercultural Research, the 2015 Sage Young Scholar Award, and the 2013 Early Career Award from the International Social Cognition Network. His 2010 dissertation was a finalist for the Harry and Pola Triandis Thesis Award from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Vassilis Saroglou (PhD) is Full Professor of Psychology at the Université Catholique de Louvain where he directs the Centre for Psychology of Religion. His research focuses on social, cross-cultural, and personality psychology of religion, fundamentalism, and spirituality. He is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the American Psychological Association, Division 36.
Joni Y. Sasaki is Assistant Professor of Psychology at York University and Director of the Culture and Religion Lab. She conducts research on the effects of culture and religion on social behaviors, cognition, and emotion, and she received the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award in 2013.
Gerard Saucier (PhD, Oregon, 1991) is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, United States. He is author or coauthor of over 70 publications. His research has focused on structural models of personality as well as beliefs and values and on cultural differences and universals in these domains. He is a former Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and for the Journal of Research in Personality.
Mark Schaller (PhD) is Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He conducts research on human motivational systems and their implications for human cognition and social interaction. His research also addresses additional questions about the influence of human evolutionary history on psychological processes and about the impact of these psychological processes on human culture.
Shalom H. Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a social psychologist (PhD, University of Michigan) and a past President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. His individual and culture-level value theories have been applied in research in more than 80 countries.
Dasom Seo received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Syracuse University. After graduation in 2012, she worked as a research assistant in the Counseling Psychology Laboratory at Yonsei University. Dasom recently earned her master’s degree in Social Psychology from Yonsei University. Her research interests include social witness, appraisal, and cultural psychology.
Minjae Seo graduated from Yonsei University with MA in Social Psychology. She is currently working as a research associate in the Social and Cultural Psychology Laboratory of Yonsei University. She has been examining cultural differences in self-perception and moral self, especially from the theoretical perspective and rationale of face and dignity cultures.
Jeffry A. Simpson is Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on adult attachment, trust, human mating, social influence, and how early interpersonal experiences affect adult relationship and health outcomes.
Peter B. Smith (PhD, Cambridge, 1962) is Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is first author or editor of 10 books and more than 200 other publications in the fields of social and organizational psychology. His research has mostly focused upon cultural differences in leadership and conformity, including culturally distinctive aspects such as Chinese guanxi.
Nick Stauner (PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2013) is a postdoctoral scholar at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He coleads a large three-year grant-funded research project on supernatural attribution and publishes on religious and spiritual struggles and measurement, specializing in existential, positive, personality, social, and quantitative psychology.
Ohad Szepsenwol is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. He has a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Bar-Ilan University, Israel. In his research, he draws from evolutionary, developmental, and social psychology and combines longitudinal and experimental methods to study individual differences in parenting, mating, and relationship dynamics.
Fons J. R. van de Vijver is Professor of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has (co)authored 450 publications, mainly about bias and equivalence, psychological acculturation and multiculturalism, cognitive similarities and differences, response styles, translations and adaptations. He is the former Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and current President of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Evert Van de Vliert is Professor Emeritus of Applied Social Psychology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has published more than 200 journal articles, chapters, and books on role stress, conflict and conflict management, and the climato-economic origins of culture. In 2005, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict Management.
Karen van der Zee, Prof. Dr., holds a chair in Intercultural Competency at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Chief Diversity Officer of the VU. She occupies honorary chairs at the University of Groningen and the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. Her research interests cover intercultural competencies and diversity management in organizations.
Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven, Prof. Dr., is Professor Emeritus of Cross-Cultural Psychology (PhD, University of Groningen, 1983), with a special interest in comparing behavior, attitudes, and behavior across cultures. He started his career as a UNESCO literacy researcher in Latin America. Much of his current research focuses on immigrants and immigration issues and intercultural competencies.
Michele Vecchione is Professor of Psychometrics at the Department of Psychology (Sapienza University of Rome) and junior research fellow at Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS). Main research interests focus on the application of multivariate statistics to diverse areas of psychology, with a special focus on personality assessment across multiple domains.
Ethan Young is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in evolutionary approaches to the study of individual differences. In particular, he studies how stressful experiences shape personality and cognition in functional ways.
Jens B. Asendorpf is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. His main research focus is the study of transactions between personality and social relationships over the life span.
Veronica Benet-Martínez (PhD) is an ICREA Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain, with research interests in multiculturalism/acculturation, culture and social perception, cross-cultural research methods, and personality differences and processes.
Michael Harris Bond is Chair Professor of Psychology at the Department of Management and Marketing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He perseveres in his quest to figure out how a person’s cultural heritage moderates the pan-cultural processes leading to social outcomes of interest, such as life satisfaction.
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen holds a PhD in Psychology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is Professor of Psychology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Bobby Cheon (PhD) is Assistant Professor with current appointments at the Division of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (A*STAR).
Valery Chirkov (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His studies focus on the cultural basis of human functioning, immigration and acculturation, and methodology of sociocultural research.
Ronald Fischer works at the Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research explores variation in human behavior and cognition in different cultural, economic, and ecological contexts.
Jochen E. Gebauer obtained his PhD at Cardiff University in 2009 and currently is head of an Emmy-Noether junior research group at the University of Mannheim in Germany.
Phillip L. Hammack (PhD) is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States. His research examines social identities in relation to existing political structures and systems, particularly with regard to relative privilege and power within societies.
Markus Jokela (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research focuses on the interplay between psychological characteristics of individuals and dynamics of populations.
Marcia S. Katigbak (PhD, Washington State University) was a faculty research associate at Washington State University. Her research interests include cross-cultural and indigenous psychology, culture and personality, and psychological measurement.
Heejung S. Kim (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.
Kenneth D. Locke (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Idaho, United States, with interests in personality assessment, social relationships, and cross-cultural psychology.
Stewart J. H. McCann (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Psychology, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, with interests in social, personality, and political psychology.
Robert R. McCrae, Gloucester, Massachusetts, received his PhD from Boston University in 1976. He is author of the NEO inventories and Personality in adulthood.
Yuri Miyamoto (PhD) is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. Her research focuses on the interplay between cultural and social contexts and psychological processes.
Angela-MinhTu D. Nguyen (PhD) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton. Her research addresses the experiences of multicultural individuals, such as their acculturation, bicultural identity, bilingualism, and cultural frame-switching.
Anu Realo (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and Professor of Personality and Social Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Gerard Saucier (PhD, Oregon, 1991) is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. His research has focused on structural models of personality as well as beliefs and values and on cultural differences and universals in these domains.
Krishna Savani is Assistant Professor of Strategy, Management, and Organization at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from Stanford University and has previously worked at Columbia University and the National University of Singapore.
David P. Schmitt (PhD) is Caterpillar Inc. Professor of Psychology at Bradley University, United States, and studies how culture, personality, and gender combine to influence human sexuality.
Evert Van de Vliert is Professor Emeritus of Applied Social Psychology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has recently specialized in the climato-economic origins of culture.