JOHN J. SHAUGHNESSY is Professor of Psychology at Hope College, a relatively small, select, undergraduate liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan. After completing the B.S. degree at Loyola University of Chicago in 1969, he received the Ph.D. in 1972 from Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, and has been a frequent contributor of research on human memory and a reviewer for several journals. He was selected by students as the Hope Outstanding Professor Educator in 1992, and his teaching expertise has been recognized by his colleagues' selection of him as a campus teaching consultant.

EUGENE B. ZECHMEISTER, a specialist in the field of human cognition, is Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago, a large metropolitan university where he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses since 1970. Professor Zechmeister completed his B.A. in 1966 at the University of New Mexico. He later received both the M.S. (1968) and Ph.D. (1970) from Northwestern University. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association (Divisions 1, 2, and 3) and the American Psychological Society. In 1994, he was awarded the Loyola University Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Zechmeister currently is the Undergraduate Program Director for the Loyola University of Chicago Psychology Department.

JEANNE S. ZECHMEISTER is Associate Professor of Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago. Professor Zechmeister earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Currently, her research focuses on the areas of psychology of religion, adult depression, and coping, on which she has published articles in several journals. In her work with college students facilitating the development of coping skills, Professor Zechmeister has linked her studies on depression and coping, and plans to develop the links between coping and religion in her future research.