Abstract
Victor A. Benassi earned his bachelor's degree from California State College and his PhD in psychology from the City University of New York. After working in the Department of Psychology at California State University at Long Beach, he moved to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in 1982. He is currently Professor of Psychology and Professor of College Teaching. He has been one of the leaders of his department's long-standing Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) component of the PhD program. In 2003, this program received recognition from the American Psychological Association's (APA) Board of Educational Affairs for its innovation and creativity. He has also played a part, along with several colleagues, in facilitating the development of UNH's academic program in college teaching. UNH received the 2002 Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching (Certificate of Excellence) in recognition of this program. Benassi has received several awards within UNH for his scholarship and teaching and received the Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award from the American Psychological Foundation in 2003. His research has focused on judgment and belief, and he has published articles on belief in alleged paranormal phenomena, illusory control, and judgment of contingency. He also maintains an ongoing program of research with a colleague on teaching and learning at the college level.
David J. Wimer is the past chair of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology's (STP) Graduate Student Teaching Association. In 1998 he received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. While at Ithaca, he had the pleasure of working on Barney Beins's psychology of humor research team. He received his MA in social psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and is currently working toward a PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, where he works with Loreto Prieto.