TEAM MEMBERS

ROY BAUMEISTER. E. B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts, Case Western Reserve University. Some of his books include: Meanings of Life (1991), Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the Paradox of Self-Defeating Behavior (1993), Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty (1997), and The Social Dimension of Sex (2000). His current grants include Ego Depletion Patterns and Self-Control Failure (NIMH) and Humility, Egotism, Forgiveness, and the Victim Role (Templeton Foundation). His recent research spans consciousness, free choice, guilt, forgiveness, self-control, narcissism, empathy, shame, love, meaning, and identity.

STEPHANIE BROWN, Clinical Psychologist and Director of The Addictions Institute in Menlo Park, California. She founded (in 1977) and served as the first director of th eStanford Alcohol Clinic at Stanford University. She is best-known for her published work on psycholotherapy and family therapy of alcoholism, and on the process of recovery. Her books include Treating Alcoholism (1995) and The Alcoholic Family in Recovery: A Developmental Model (1999). She delivered the 2000 Norman Zinberg Memorial Lecture at Harvard University.

HAROLD D. DELANEY. Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education of the Department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico where he was named Outstanding Graduate Teacher of the Year. His specialty is research methodology and applied statistics with his best known work being a graduate text Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data (2000), co-authored with Scott Maxwell of the University of Notre Dame. A recipient of the Templeton Foundation Science & Religion course award, he regularly offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate course on the relationship between scientific psychology and Christian theism.

CARLO C. DiCLEMENTE. Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His development with Professor James Prochaska of a transtheoretical model of change has had broad international impact on both research and practice in psychology. His research has been funded by five NIH institutes, and he is a recipient of the Distinguished Contribution Award from APA Division 50. He began his career as Assistant Pastor in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Deleware.

C.STEPHEN EVANS. Philosopher of psychology and religion and Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. He is particularly well-known as a Kierkegaard scholar. His books include Faith Beyond Reason (1998), Preserving the Person: A Look at the Human Sciences (1994), Wisdom and Humanness in Psychology: Prospects for a Christian Approach and The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith (1996) which won the Best Christian Scholarly Book of 1996 award from the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies. He has also been the recipient of a three-year grant as a Pew Evangelical Scholar and two NEH Fellowships for College Teachers.

GEORGE S. HOWARD. Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has also served as Chair of the Department of Psychology and Director of the Laboratory of Social Science Research. He has many publications including Dare We Develop a Human Science (1986), A Tale of Two Stories: Excursions into a Narrative Approach to Psychology (19898), Understanding Human Nature (1996), Ecological Psychology (1997) and For Love of Teaching (in press). His research probes the uniqueness of human nature: self-determination, autobiography, will, meaning, values and motivation.

STANTON L. JONES. Professor of Psychology, and Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Wheaton College in Illinois. His writings have focused on the interface of psychology and religion, and on issues of sex education. His books include Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal (1991), and Psychology and Christianity: Four Views (2000). His work has been recognized by a Templeton Prize for Scholarship in Science and Religion, and a fellowship from the Pew Evangelical Scholars Program.

JARED D. KASS. Professor of Counseling and Psychology in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he directs the Study Project on Well-Being. He holds a Contemplative Practice Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and coordinates the Boston Clergy and Religious Leaders Group for Interfaith Dialogue. He is currently writing a book entitled, "Contemplative Practice in University Life: The Role of Psychospiritual Inquiry in Higher Education."

MARTIN L. MAEHR. Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan, and a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. Throughout his career he has studied achievement motivation and its relationship to cultural diversity with particular emphasis on how schools can impact motivation. He has served as Director of the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the Universtiy of Michigan, and of the Institute for Research on Human Development at the University of Illinois.

BRENDA A. MILLER. The Janet P. Wattles Endowed Professor at the University of Buffalo School of Social Work. She also directs the Center for Research on Urban Social Work Practice. Her research interests and extensive publications span women's health, family violence, substance abuse, HIV, with current grants focused on Family Based Prevention for Children of Alcoholics and Mother's Alcohol Problems and Children's Victimization (NIAAA). She has served on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, and is an Associate Senior Research Scientist with the Addiction Research Institute on Addictions in Buffalo, New York, where she previously served as Acting Director.

WILLIAM R. MILLER. Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico where he also serves as Co-Director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions. his clinical research had focused primarily on the effectiveness of treatments for substance use disorders. His books include Practical Psychology for Pastors (1995), Integrating Spirituality into Treatment (1999), and Quantum Change: When Sudden Insights and Epiphanies Transform Ordinary Lives (in press). He was the 1994 recipient of the international Jellinek Memorial Award for excellence in alcoholism research and is a Fellow of both APA and APS.

KENNETH PARGAMENT. Professor of Psychology and Director of the Ph.D. Training Program in Clinical Psychology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the School of Theology and Religious Studies at Boston University. A Fellow of both APA and APS, his research has focused on positive and negative religious coping and more recently on forgiveness. He received the William James Award for excellence in research in the psychology of religion from APAÕs Division 36, and was later elected its President. He recently published (with Michael McCullough and Carl Thoresen) Forgiveness: Theory, Research and Practice.

CARL E. THORESEN. Professor of Education and Psychology at Stanford University. A prolific pioneer in the study of behavioral self-control, he has participated in many studies of coronary-prone behavior, chronic stress, cancer and heart disease prevention, with a recent focus on spiritual/philosophical issues in overall health and well-being. is clinical research lies at the interface of humanistic psychology, cognitive-behavior therapy, and spirituality. He recently edited a special "Spirituality and Health" issue of the Journal of Health Psychology and published (with Michael McCullough and Kenneth Pargament) Forgiveness: Theory, Research and Practice. He is a Fellow of APA and AAAS.

EVERETT L. WORTHINGTON, JR. Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He is involved in both basic and intervention research on forgiveness and reconciliation with related research interests in empathy, humility, marital relationships, and religious values. He is the founding Editor of the journal, Marriage and Family: A Christian Journal, and serves on editorial boards including the Journal of Counseling Psychology, American Journal of Family Therapy, and Journal of Psychology and Theology. He has received the Templeton Humility Theology Award on six occasions, in recognition of exemplary scientific papers. He has published 16 books, many of which are in foreign translations.