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Dennis Coon is a publishing phenomenon and one of the best-selling authors in the field of psychology. His innovative instructional methods and student-focused style make his works perennial favorites among instructors and students alike. To date, more than two million students have learned psychology with a Coon text as their guide. Coon graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Riverside, and earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Arizona.

John O. Mitterer holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from McMaster University. He has taught psychology at Brock University to more than 25,000 psychology students. Mitterer was the recipient of the 2003 Brock University Distinguished Teaching Award, a 2003 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Award, a 2004 3M Teaching Fellowship, the 2005 Canadian Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology, and the 2010 Brock University Don Ursino Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Large Classes. He also held a three-year Brock Chancellor's Chair for Teaching Excellence.

Patrick Brown studied linguistics at the University of Ottawa and psychology at the University of Waterloo, receiving M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. During a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, at the University of Florida, he studied the influence of brain damage on perception of, and memory for, emotion. He taught for three years at Laurentian University in Sudbury before going to the Department of Psychology at Western University, where he has taught cognition, research methods, and statistics since 1990.

Born and raised in India, Rajesh Malik arrived in Canada at the age of 20. He obtained his doctorate degree in psychology from Concordia University and currently teaches in the Department of Psychology at Dawson College and in the Department of Education at Concordia University. Within the field of psychology, he is particularly interested in the topics of consciousness, hypnosis, and psychological disorders. He and his wife are the proud parents of two children. He is passionate about classical music, reads literature and philosophy with deep interest, derives immense pleasure from taking long walks, and remains a committed vegetarian.

Sue McKenzie received a B.A. from Northwestern University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from McGill. She has been teaching psychology at Dawson College in Montreal since the college opened in 1969. She and her husband, Bob, who recently retired from teaching at Dawson, have three grown children. When not teaching, skiing, or singing in a women’s barbershop chorus, she likes to weave. On a loom.