About Us

A Message from the General Editor

Welcome to the Routledge Resources Online: Psychology in the Real World!  Psychological science applies to every aspect of life and one of my passions has been to share that psychology is everywhere.

In this product we focus on the major areas of life and our experienced editors and contributors shine the light on how psychological science applies to that area. We have honed in on some of the hub areas of our lives, such as health, the workplace, relationships, education, the legal arena, and sports and presented key concepts and cutting edge research. While many areas of academia fail to successfully take science to broad audiences or to highlight the applications of the science, our authors explicitly worked to illustrate how what they do and what we do as a discipline directly addresses the real work.

This has become even more important after COVID. During the pandemic, for many of us, the workplace and the home merged into one. Our health, our work, education, and our relationships, all changed and often operated more closely than ever before.  In many ways this forced us to examine what makes our lives conducive to success as we modified how work is done. Meanwhile, for the millions of health care workers, food industry employees, and essential service workers, work as they knew it went on, albeit under new stressful situations.  There is a lot of practical psychological science that applied during the pandemic and will serve us well beyond.

I welcome you to seeing just how psychological science applies to the real world in these outstanding contributions.

 

Regan A.R. Gurung, General Editor

Regan A. R. Gurung is Interim Executive Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Professor of Psychological Science, and Director of the General Psychology Program at Oregon State University, US. A social psychologist by training, his research encompasses social, health, and pedagogical psychology. He has had over 100 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored/co-edited 15 books. He is founding co-editor of APA’s journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, co-chairs the APA General Psychology Initiative, and is currently past president of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology.

 

Debi Brannan, Work

Debi Brannan is an applied social psychologist with a focus understanding how positive interactions and social support buffer the individuals from stress and negative health behaviors. Using daily process methodology, she examines the effects of daily social support on stress, coping, performance and drinking behaviors. She is also examining work-family-school balance and collaborating with colleagues to fully understand obstacles in the home health care field, such as chronic pain, safety, support, and stressors. She holds a position with the Portland Employer Drug-Free Initiative and is an associate editor for the Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research.

 

Sadie Leder Elder, Relationships

Sadie Leder Elder is an Associate Professor of Psychology at High Point University, US. Her work focuses on the study of close relationships and Risk Regulation, examining how individuals balance competing drives for connection and protection within relationship life, and she shares her insight on romantic relationships as a staff writer for Psychology Today and the Science of Relationships websites. Sadie is a two-time national award winning educator, as well as being named an Outstanding Woman in Business in 2020 and a Forty Under 40 Leader in 2017, both by the Triad Business Journal.

 

Rick LaCaille, Health

Rick LaCaille is Professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth, US. Professor LaCaille’s primary line of research examines the intersection of psychology and health with an emphasis on how self-regulation affects physical and mental health. More recently, he has begun to investigate how pedagogical strategies and psychological misconceptions influence student learning. He is a past Associate Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

 

Rick Miller, Social Change

Rick Miller is the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University-Kingsvillle, US. He served for many years as the Director of applied behavioral science research projects for the Human Resources Research Organization in Heidelberg, Germany after which he set up a community college program for English speaking residents of Mallorca, Spain. Rick is a past President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. He is the recipient of four national teaching awards, and was named US Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. His research includes work on social comparison processes, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and moral decision-making.

 

Aaron S. Richmond, Education

Aaron S. Richmond is a professor of educational psychology and human development in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Metropolitan State University of Denver, US.  With more than a decade of professional teaching experience, Dr. Richmond has garnered several awards for excellence in teaching. His specific interests are in building higher-level thinking skills that students can apply in other classes, and exploring effective pedagogical approaches to instruction in both k-12 and higher education. Dr. Richmond has served as the Vice President for Programming for the Society of the Teaching of Psychology, and currently holds several positions on editorial boards including the journals.

 

Ron Roesch, Psychology and Law

Ron Roesch is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Mental Health, Law, and Policy Institute at Simon Fraser University. Canada. His research focuses on competency assessments of adult and young offenders, jail and prison mental health programs, and youth violence. He has served as president of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) and the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS). Professor Roesch has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Psychology and Law from the European Association of Psychology & Law, the Canadian Psychological Association John C. Service Member of the Year Award, and the Rüdiger Müller-Isberner Award from IAFMHS in 2019.

 

Jamie Shapiro, Sport

Jamie Shapiro is an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the Master’s in Sport and Performance Psychology program in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver, US. Dr. Shapiro is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, listed on the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s Sport Psychology and Mental Training Registry, and a National Certified Counselor by the National Board of Certified Counselors. She has consulted with youth, collegiate, elite, and Paralympic athletes from a variety of sports, including gymnastics, skiing, and swimming. Dr. Shapiro’s research interests include psychology of sport injury, psychological skills training, mental training for athletes who have disabilities, and ethics in sport and performance psychology.

 

Editorial Advisors

Health

Renee Magnan, Washington State University, US

Aliza Panjwani, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada

Julie Lanz, University of Nebraska, US

 

Psychology and Law

Erin Fuller, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Kathy Roesch, PhD

Kate Hanniball, Simon Fraser University, Canada

 

Social Change

Sara Brady, Concordia University, US

Karen Z. Naufel, Georgia Southern University, US

Drew Christopher, Albion College, US

David P. Nalbone, Purdue University-Northwest, US

Yael Granot, Smith College, US

Stephanie Anderson, University of Arizona Global Campus, US

Kenneth D. Keith, University of San Diego, US

Eliot Hammer, Xavier University of Louisiana, US

 

Sport

Paula Parker, Campbell University, US

Adam O’Neil, PhD

Chelsea Butters Wooding, National University, US

 

Work

Lauren A. Murphy, Northeastern University, US

Mycah Harrold, Washington State University, US