Brett Pelham received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught and conducted research at UCLA, SUNY-Buffalo, Swarthmore College, St, Mary's College of Maryland, and Georgetown University. He is currently a professor at Montgomery College, MD. He is the author of about 60 empirical papers and two other textbooks: Conducting Research in Psychology (5th ed., SAGE) and Intermediate Statistics (SAGE).