Psychology: Themes and Variations, 6th Edition |

Doug McCann received his B.A. from the University of Waterloo and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. Following completion of his Ph.D., he did a post-doctoral fellowship at Ohio State University. He has been a member of the Psychology Department at York University since 1983. At York he has taught at the graduate level in the Clinical, Developmental, and Social/Personality programs and at the undergraduate level his current teaching interests focus on Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, and the Psychology of Depression. He has won a variety of teaching awards while at York University and has served in several administrative positions at York University, most recently as Director of the Graduate Program in Psychology at York University. His research interests focus on social cognition, the self, and information processing models of depression.

Wayne Weiten has taught at the College of DuPage, Santa Clara University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division 2 of the American Psychological Association and the College of DuPage. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Midwestern Psychological Association, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology in 1991. Dr. Weiten also is a former president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. In 2006, one of the six national teaching awards given annually by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology was named in his honor. Dr. Weiten has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision-making, attribution theory, pressure as a form of stress and the technology of textbooks. A graduate of Bradley University, he received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1981.

Deborah Matheson is Chair of the Department of Psychology at Vancouver Island University where she also serves as a member of Senate. She received her B.A. (Hons) from Simon Fraser University and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. graduate work at the University of Victoria. Her research interests are primarily in health psychology, especially on factors that motivate people to commit to an exercise program. However, she is interested in a number of aspects of health and well-being. She is co-author of The Psychology of Health and Health Care: A Canadian Perspective, now in its 5th edition (with Gary Poole and David N. Cox; Pearson). Her research has been published in a number of journals including: Behavioral Medicine; the British Journal of Health Psychology; the Canadian Journal of Communication; the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior; the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology; Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science; Psychology and Health; Psychology, Health and Medicine; and the Psychology of Sport and Exercise.