Psychology Around Us

Ronald Comer has taught in Princeton University's Department of Psychology for the past 35 years and has served as Director of Clinical Psychology Studies for most of that time. His courses have been among the university's most popular offerings with students. Comer has received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at the university. He also is the author of the textbooks Abnormal Psychology, now in its seventh edition, and Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, now in its fifth edition, and the co-author of Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology. Comer is the producer of a range of educational videos, including Introduction to Psychology Video Clipboard, Developmental Psychology Video Clipboard, Video Segments in Abnormal Psychology, and Video Segments in Neuroscience. In addition, he has published numerous journal articles in clinical psychology, personality, social psychology, and family medicine.

Elizabeth Gould has taught in Princeton University's Department of Psychology for the past 12 years. Gould, an international leader in the study of neurogenesis (the production of new neurons in the mammalian brain), was the winner of the 2006 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award and the 2009 Royal Society of the Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal. She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Neuroscience, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, and Biological Psychology.