James S. Nairne, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD in psychology from Yale University. His original training was in Pavlovian conditioning, but his current research specialty is human memory and cognition. He is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Psychonomic Society, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Midwestern Psychological Association. His editorial positions have included editor-in-chief of Memory & Cognition and associate editor for the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review and the Journal of Memory and Language, and he has served on numerous editorial boards. For over three decades, he has taught introductory psychology at Purdue and served as the founding director for the Research-Focused Honors Program in psychological science. He was the recipient of the 2000 Excellence in Education Award from Purdue University and the 2001 Charles B. Murphy Award. In 2003, Dr. Nairne was inducted into the Book of Great Teachers. Dawn M. McBride is professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught research methods since 1998. Her research interests include automatic forms of memory, false memory, prospective memory, task order choices, and forgetting. In addition to research methods, she teaches courses in introductory psychology, cognition and learning, and human memory; she also teaches a graduate course in experimental design. She is a recipient of the Illinois State University Teaching Initiative Award and the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship, involvement, and achievement. Her nonacademic interests include spending time with her family, traveling, watching Philadelphia sports teams (it was a good year for Philly sports this year!), and reading British murder mysteries. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
