Charles E. Kimble is Professor of Psychology at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Kimble received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from Baylor University. He has held visiting professor positions at the University of Kansas (1985-86),and twice at the University of Texas at El Paso (1982-83, 1995-96). He was the Director of the University of Dayton's Social Science Research Center from 1992-1995. Kimble is currently Research Associate with The Center as well as Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the General Psychology M. A. Program.
Dr. Kimble has written a previous social psychology text (1990). He is author of 12 of the first 13 chapters in Social Psychology of the Americas and coordinated efforts of the other authors for this book. He received the University of Dayton Sigma Xi scientific research award in 1992. Research areas include self-handicapping, the impact of defensible space, computer aids for group decisions, performance in groups, dominance in groups, nonverbal behavior, attribution and attraction, and sports fanship.
Kimble is married to Marty Kimble and is the father of four, Emily, Lauren, Daniel, and Andrew.
Rolando Díaz-Loving received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. He is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Psychosocial Research Unit at the National Automonous University of Mexico. Dr. Díaz-Loving is one of the most eminent social psychologists in Mexico and Latin America. He has received the Social Sciences Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences, the Interamerican Psychologist Award from the Interamerican Society of Psychology and the Mexican Psychology Award from the National Counsel for the Teaching and Research in Psychology. He is past editor of the Revista de Psicología Social y Personalidad and author of many research articles and chapters in social psychology, personality and ethnopsychology.
Díaz-Loving has been and is an officer of many international, Latin American, Inter-American, and cross-cultural psychological organizations such as the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, the Interamerican Psychological Society and the Asociación Mexicana de Psicología Social. His main areas of research are Couple Relations, Psychosocial factors related to HIV-AIDS and Culture and Personality.
Harmon M. Hosch is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts and Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso. Hosch earned his Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research, New York, NY in 1976. He has served in a variety of administrative positions at the University, including Chairman of the Department of Psychology from 1990 to 1995. Hosch was appointed as a Visiting Scientist at the National Science Foundation from 1996 to 1998. While at the NSF he served as Director of the Law and Social Sciences Program.
Hosch was a Fulbright Scholar in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1982-1983 and has taught courses at several universities in Mexico as an Academic Specialist for the United States Information Service.
Hosch has an active research program in the Center for Law and Human Behavior focusing primarily on the application of social psychology in legal contexts. Much of the work he and his students do explores the impact of culture and language dominance on jury decision making. Ongoing projects are investigating the joint influence of juror and defendant ethnicity on jurors' decisions, the impact of interpreted courtroom testimony on bilingual jurors' decisions, the theoretical bases for jurors' decisions under the "reasonable person standard" in civil cases, and the content of expert testimony in cases involving eyewitness identification.
Michael A. Zárate is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is a consulting editor at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and is on the National Science Foundation Social Psychology review panel, and is an active reviewer for most social psychological journals. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of California-Santa Barbara and his doctoral work at Purdue University.
Dr. Zárate focuses his research on culture and psychology, and on the neuropsychology of person perception. His published work can be found in Social Cognition, Psychological Review, and in other outlets. His research interests include: Cognitive processes underlying prejudice and stereotyping; neurological determinants of social perception and stereotypic trait inferences; Racial, ethnic, and gender categorization and stereotyping. His newest research projects focus on distinguishing between prejudice and stereotyping, and how cultural factors impact prejudice and stereotyping.
G. William Lucker is Associate Professor of Psychology and Graduate Program Director at the University of Texas at El Paso. He received the bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Slavic Languages and the Ph. D. Degree in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Lucker has been Visiting Professor for the University of Maryland European Division in Heidelberg, Germany and Visiting Professor for Semester at Sea, Institute for Shipboard Education, University of Pittsburgh in recent years.
Dr. Lucker, in addition to several other areas of interest, is interested in cross-cultural issues. He has studied turnover among Mexican line workers in American-owned and managed plants in Northern Mexico, and worked on a cross-cultural comparison of cognitive development and elementary educational programming in Taiwan, Japan, and the U.S.
Edward R. Hirt is Associate Professor of Psychology at Indiana University at Bloomington. He received his Ph. D. in Social Psychology from Indiana University in 1987. He taught at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison before returning to Indiana University in 1991. Hirt is on the editorial board of such journals as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Hirt's research interests are in the general area of social cognition and include such topics as self-protective strategies, particularly self-handicapping; reconstructive memory and false memories; and the interplay between affect and cognition, most notably the effects ofmood on motivation, intrinsic interest and creativity. Hirt has also done research on social identity and allegiance, particularly sports fanship.
He is married (Kathy) with two
daughters, Molly and Maureen.