Douglas A. Bernstein

Doug Bernstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 27, 1942. He attended public schools there before completing his bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1964. He earned his masters and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology at Northwestern University in 1966 and 1968, respectively. From 1968 to 1998, he was on the psychology faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he taught graduate and undergraduate classes ranging from 15 to 750 students, and served both as Associate Department Head and Director of Introductory Psychology. From 2006 to 2008 he was Visiting Professor of Psychology and Education Advisor to the School of Psychology at Southampton University, and in January, 2009 was Visiting Professor and Education Consultant at l’Institut du Psychologie at the University of Paris Descartes. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Illinois and Courtesy Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida, and a teaching consultant at Ecole de Psychologues Praticiens in Paris.

Doug founded the APS Preconference Institute on the Teaching of Psychology in 1994, as well as the APS Preconference Institute on the Teaching of Integrative Psychological Science at the first APS International Convention of Psychological Science in 2015. He was also the founding chairman of the Steering Committee for the APS Fund for the Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science. In 2013, he stepped down after 30 years as chairman of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology. His teaching awards include the University of Illinois Psychology Graduate Student Association Teaching Award, the University of Illinois Psi Chi award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the Illinois Psychology Department’s Mabel Kirkpatrick Hohenboken Teaching Award, and the APA Distinguished Teaching in Psychology Award. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and he has co-authored textbooks in Introductory Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Criminal Behavior, and Progressive Relaxation Training and co-edited books in Applied and Developmental Psychology. He has also contributed chapters to Teaching introductory psychology: Theory and practice (edited by Robert J. Sternberg, 1997), The teaching of psychology: Essays in honor of Wilbert J. McKeachie and Charles L. Brewer (edited by William Buskist and Stephen Davis, 2002), and (with Sandra Goss Lucas) The compleat academic: A career guide, (edited by Henry Roediger, John Darley, & Mark Zanna, 2002). With Sandra Goss Lucas, he wrote Teaching Psychology: A Step by Step Guide, which recently appeared in a third edition with co-authors Sue Frantz and Stephen Chew. He occasionally offers workshops on teaching techniques and on textbook-writing for prospective authors, and as a hobby he collects student excuses.

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E. Leslie Cameron

Leslie Cameron is Professor of Psychological Science at Carthage College and Courtesy Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned a B.A. with distinction from McGill University in Montreal, Canada; an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester; and a Certificat Supérieur and Diplôme de Phonétique Appliquée à la Langue Française from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France. She was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research associate and adjunct professor at New York University and a visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She was awarded a National Research Service Award postdoctoral fellowship and a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at NYU.

She teaches courses in cognitive and perceptual psychology and regularly involves undergraduate students in her research. She has embraced the Students as Partners model and recently co-authored two reflection articles with students and international colleagues on their partnership experiences. She was a Wagner Teaching Fellow from 2018 to 2020. In that position she collaborated with students and faculty colleagues to apply Decoding the Disciplines in conjunction with eye-movement recording to better understand what experts do when they read graphical data. The goal was to elucidate the process and teach it more effectively to students. Her current disciplinary research with students involves studying human olfaction, particularly the effect of Covid-19 on sense of smell, short-term and long-term memory for odors, and the effects of pregnancy on the sense of smell.

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