Psychology Applied to Modern Life

Wayne Weiten has taught at the College of DuPage, Santa Clara University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has received distinguished teaching awards from Division 2 of the American Psychological Association and the College of DuPage. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Midwestern Psychological Association, he helped chair the APA National Conference on Enhancing the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Psychology in 1991. Dr. Weiten also is a former president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. In 2006, one of the six national teaching awards given annually by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology was named in his honor. Dr. Weiten has conducted research on a wide range of topics, including educational measurement, jury decision-making, attribution theory, pressure as a form of stress and the technology of textbooks. A graduate of Bradley University, he received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1981. Dana S. Dunn is professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is author or editor of over 35 books and more than 200 journal articles, chapters and book reviews. His scholarship examines teaching, learning and liberal education as well as the social psychology of disability. Dr. Dunn writes "Head of the Class", a Psychology Today blog on teaching. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, he served as president of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Division 2) in 2010 and Rehabilitation Psychology (APA Division 22) in 2019. In 2013, Dr. Dunn received the APF Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies (OB): Psychology. He earned his B.A. in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Virginia. Elizabeth Yost Hammer is the Kellogg Professor in Teaching in the psychology department and director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. Her work as director includes organizing pedagogical workshops and faculty development initiatives. A fellow of Division 2 of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Hammer is a past president of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology and has served as treasurer for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She also served as chief reader for Advanced Placement Psychology. Dr. Hammer is a co-author on MYER'S PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE AP® COURSE, 4th edition, and the author of the teacher's edition. Passionate about teaching, she has published and presented on collaborative learning, mentoring students and inclusive pedagogy. In 2021, she received the APF Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology. She, her husband and their two rescue dogs work, play and, when necessary, self-isolate in New Orleans. She earned her B.S. in psychology from Troy University and received her Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Tulane University.

1. Adjusting to Modern Life.
2. Theories of Personality.
3. Stress and Its Effects.
4. Coping Processes.
5. Psychology and Physical Health.
6. The Self.
7. Social Thinking and Social Influence.
8. Interpersonal Communication.
9. Friendship and Love.
10. Marriage and the Family.
11. Gender and Behavior.
12. Development and Expression of Sexuality.
13. Careers and Work.
14. Psychological Disorders.
15. Psychotherapy.
16. Positive Psychology.