Robert A. Baron (Ph.D., Iowa, 1968) is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has held faculty appointments at Purdue University, the University of Minnesota, University of Texas, University of South Carolina, University of Washington, and Princeton University. In 1982 he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. From 1979 to 1981 he served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (Washington, D.C.). He has been a Fellow of the American Psychological Association since 1978 and is a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Professor Baron has published more than ninety-five articles in professional journals and twenty-six chapters in edited volumes. He is the author or co-author of thirty-eight books, including Psychology (4th ed.), Behavior in Organizations (7th ed.), Social Psychology (9th ed.), Human Aggression (2nd ed.), and Understanding Human Relations (3rd ed.). His research currently focuses primarily on the following topics: (1) workplace aggression, (2) impact of the physical environment (e.g., lighting, air quality, temperature) on social behavior and task performance, and (3) cognitive and social factors in entrepreneurship.

Prof. Baron's hobbies include (1) music (he plays piano and wrote and copy-righted a song that was recorded and released in the 1960s); (2) fine wood-working (he makes everything from small wooden boxes to large pieces of furniture), and (3) coin collecting. He holds three U.S. patents, and is President of Innovative Environmental Products, Inc., a company that applies the findings and principles of psychology to the development of new products designed to enhance the quality of everyday life. Prof. Baron has been a runner for more than twenty years, and - perhaps because he never gains weight! - has had a life-long interest in fine food and wine.

DONN BYRNE

Donn Byrne (Ph.D., Stanford, 1958) holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He previously held faculty positions at the California State University - San Francisco, the University of Texas, and Purdue University and the position of visiting professor at the University of Hawaii and Stanford University. At various times he has served as the Chair of Albany's Psychology Department, the Head of the Social-Personality Program at Purdue and at Albany, and a member of Surgeon General Koop's Workshop on Pornography and Health. A past president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, he is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and is a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society.

Professor Byrne has published more than one hundred and forty articles in professional journals and thirty-three chapters in edited volumes. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books including Psychology: An Introduction to a Behavioral Science (4th ed.), Personality Change, An Introduction to Personality (3rd ed.), The Attraction Paradigm, and Adolescents, Sex, and Contraception. His current research focuses on such core topics as (1) the effect of adult attachment patterns on interpersonal relationships, (2) dispositional predictors of coercive sexual behavior, and (3) the evolutionary significance of responsiveness to similarity and dissimilarity.