Psychology Around Us, 4th Canadian Edition

NANCY OGDEN is a professor and chair of the Psychology Department at Mount Royal University, where she has taught for the past 30 years, has received many teaching awards, and has conducted research pertaining to the development of study-strategy information in undergraduates. Dr. Ogden’s main research areas are related to social and emotional development in children, adolescents, and their families, and to poverty. Another of her research areas is physical literacy in early childhood; her additional research areas include parenting, attachment, relationships, and adjustment. Dr. Ogden does data-management work for non-profit agencies serving children, youth, and families. Since the Truth and Reconciliation Committee’s inception, she has also been involved in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’s post-secondary response to the TRC’s Calls to Action. She is the lead author on Psychology Around Us, now in its 4th edition.

MICHAEL BOYES has taught at the University of Calgary in the Department of Psychology for 35 years and has received the University of Calgary Student Union Teaching Award. He publishes, consults, and runs courses and workshops in the areas of cognitive and psychosocial development and identity in families, children, adolescents, and emerging adults, as well as in programs aimed at optimizing student experiences in transitions to their post-secondary developmental pathways and with adults who need to engage in midlife career and identity pivots. He assists with the development and telling the stories (evaluation) of programs by and for urban Indigenous children, youth, and families and programs dealing with domestic violence. He has also served as an expert witness in cases related to matters of adolescent consent.

EVELYN FIELD  is a full professor at Mount Royal University in the Department of Psychology, where she has taught for over 12 years. She has published numerous scientific articles and co-authored three books: Sex Differences: Summarizing More than a Century of Scientific Research, the Canadian edition of Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity, and Psychology YOU, a career guide for psychology undergraduates. Field is a contributing author to several other textbooks, including Biology on the Cutting Edge: Concepts, Issues and Canadian Research around the Globe and previous editions of Psychology Around Us. She has received awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Alberta Foundation for Medical Research, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and is a recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Academic Medal. She completed her studies in neuroscience at the Universities of Lethbridge and Calgary, and the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Field has been nominated for, and received, several awards for teaching excellence, including a recent Distinguished Faculty Award for distinction in teaching, scholarship, and service at Mount Royal University. Her research focus is in the areas of neuroscience, sexuality, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, where she focuses on integrating creativity and technology into the classroom.

RONALD COMER has taught in Princeton University’s Department of Psychology for the past 35 years and has served as Director of Clinical Psychology Studies for most of that time. He has received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at the university. Comer also is the author of the textbooks Abnormal Psychology, now in its seventh edition, and Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, now in its ninth edition, and is the coauthor of Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology. He is the producer of various educational videos, including The Introduction to Psychology Video Library Series. In addition, he has published journal articles in clinical psychology, personality, social psychology, and family medicine.

ELIZABETH GOULD  has taught in Princeton University’s Department of Psychology for the past 12 years. A leading researcher in the study of adult neurogenesis, she has published numerous journal articles on the production of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain. Gould has been honoured for her breakthrough work with a number of awards, including the 2006 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award and the 2009 Royal Society of the Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal. She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Biological Psychology, and Cell Stem Cell.