Edited by Barbara Oakley, Associate Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Edited by Ariel Knafo, Assistant Professor of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edited by Guruprasad Madhavan, Program Officer in Policy and Global Affairs, National Academy of Sciences, and Edited by David Wilson, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology, SUNY Binghamton
Barbara Oakley is an associate professor of engineering at Oakland University in Michigan. Her work focuses on the complex relationship between social behavior and neuroscience. Her books include Cold-Blooded Kindness (Prometheus Books, 2011) and Evil Genes (Prometheus Books, 2007). Ariel Knafo is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research deals with the genetic and environmental contributions to empathy and altruism and how children's genetics affect their behavior and the way parents react to them. Guruprasad Madhavan, a bioengineer, is a program officer in policy and global affairs at the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council - collectively called the National Academies - in Washington, DC. He is senior co-editor of Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Springer, 2008).
David Sloan Wilson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University. His books include The Neighborhood Project (Little, Brown, 2011), Evolution for Everyone (Delacorte, 2007), Darwin's Cathedral (Chicago, 2002), and Unto Others (Harvard,1998).
Rachel Bachner-Melman, Clinical Psychologist, Adult Psychiatric Ward, Hadassah University Medical Center and Researcher and Lecturer, Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Director of the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Bernard Berofsky, Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, New York
Jack W. Berry, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, and Co-Director of the Emotion, Personality, and Altruism Research Group, Wright Institute, Berkeley, California
Kate D. Blizinsky, Graduate Student, Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Augustine Brannigan, Professor of Sociology, Fellow, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
David Brin, Scientist and Author, Encinitas, California
Vicki Bruce, Professor, Head of the School of Psychology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Robert A. Burton, Associate Chief, Department of Neurosciences, UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Bobby K. Cheon, Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Joan Y. Chiao, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Arun Manilal Gandhi, Founder, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Marc Hauser, Professor, Departments of Psychology and Human Evolutionary Biology, and Director, Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Steven C. Hayes, Nevada Foundation Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
Robert J. Homant, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan
Ali Jawaid, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Behavioral Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Satoshi Kanazawa, Reader in Management, Managerial Economics and Strategy Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Daniel B. Kennedy, Forensic Criminologist, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan
Olga Klimecki, Doctoral Student, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ariel Knafo, Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Joachim Krueger, Professor, Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Thomas B. Lewis, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Professor, Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Madeline Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Clinician-Scientist, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Division of Behavioural Sciences and Health Research, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Guruprasad Madhavan, Program Officer, Policy and Global Affairs, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia and Department Member of Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering & Applied Science, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York
Vani A. Mathur, Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Michael McGrath, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Medical Director and Chair, Department of Behavioral Health, Unity Health System, Rochester, New York
Jane N. Nathanson, Member of Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium, Boston, Massachusetts
Barbara Oakley, Associate Professor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
Lynn E. O'Connor, Professor, Director of the Emotion, Personality, and Altruism Research Group, Wright Institute, Berkeley, California
Jorge M. Pacheco, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
Gary J. Patronek, Vice President for Animal Welfare and New Program Development, Animal Rescue League of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Michael L. Perlin, Professor of Law, Director of the Online Mental Disability Law Program, Director of the International Mental Disability Law Reform Project, Justice Action Center, New York Law School, New York, New York
Karol M. Pessin, Biotechnology Intellectual Property Lawyer, Westlake Village, California
Jennifer R. Presnall, Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology Program