About the Authors

Scott O. Lilienfeld is a Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta. Author of over 200 journal articles, chapters, and books, he is a recipient of the 1998 David Shakow Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Clinical Psychology from Division 12 (Society for Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Associ ation (APA). He is a past president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He is editor of the Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice. Dr. Lilienfeld’s principal areas of research are personality disorders, psychi atric classification and diagnosis, pseudoscience in mental health, and the teaching of psychology.

Steven Jay Lynn is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psy chological Clinic at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Dr. Lynn serves on 11 editorial boards, and he has 270 scholarly pub lications, including 16 books. He is past President of APA’s Division of Psychological Hypnosis, and he has been the recipient of the Chan cellor’s Award of the State University of New York for Scholarship and Creative Activities. He is a fellow of the APA and the Association for Psychological Science, and his research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. His major areas of research include hypnosis, memory, fantasy, and dissociation.

John Ruscio is an Associate Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. His scholarly interests include quantitative methods for psychological research and the characteristics of pseudoscience that distinguish subjects within and beyond the fringes of psychological science. He has published more than 50 articles, chapters, and books, including Critical Thinking in Psychology: Separating Sense from Nonsense; serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Psychological Assessment; and is an associate editor at the Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice.

The late Barry L. Beyerstein was Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University and chair of the British Columbia Skeptics Society. He was co-editor of The Write Stuff (1992), Associate Editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, and co-authored many art icles in the Skeptical Inquirer and professional journals. Dr. Beyerstein was a member of the Advisory Board of the Drug Policy Foundation (Washington, DC) and a founding board member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy (Ottawa, Ontario).