Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding (3rd Canadian Edition) – eBook

About The Author

Laura L Namy

Dr. Laura L. Namy is currently an Associate Commissioner at the Institute of Education Sciences. She has over 20 years of teaching and writing experience and earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Nancy Jean Woolf

Scott O. Lilienfeld

Dr. Scott O. Lilienfeld, (late), Ph.D., was a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University until his death in 2020. He worked on the editorial boards of numerous publications and was the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Psychological Science and Associate Editor of Archives of Scientific Psychology.

Cognitive biases and their relationships to personality and psychopathology were among Dr. Lilienfeld's main interests, as were scientific thinking and its application to psychology, the causes and assessment of personality disorders (especially psychopathic and narcissistic personality disorders), psychiatric classification and diagnosis, pseudoscience and clinical psychology, evidence-based clinical practise, and science and psychology philosophy. He received the Association for Psychological Science's James McKeen Cattell Award for Distinguished Achievements in Applied Psychological Science and served as president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology and the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.

Steven J. Lynn

Dr. Steven Jay Lynn got his BA in psychology from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Indiana University. He completed an NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, Michigan, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at SUNY Binghamton.

Dr. S. J. Lynn is a fellow of numerous professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He has authored or edited over 20 books and more than 350 publications.

The National Institute of Mental Health and the Ohio Department of Mental Health has supported Dr. Lynn’s research. His research has also been featured in numerous media outlets, including Discover Magazine, CBS Morning Show, New York Times, New Scientist Magazine, ABC’s 20/20, Discovery Channel, and the Academy Award-winning documentary, Capturing the Friedmans.