John W. Santrock

John Santrock received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1973. He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the program in Psychology and Human Development at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he currently teaches a number of undergraduate courses.

John has been a member of the editorial boards of Child Development and Developmental Psychology. His research on father custody is widely cited and used in expert witness testimony to promote fl exibility and alternative considerations in custody disputes. John also has authored these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Psychology (7th edition), Children (11th edition), Adolescence (14th edition), Life-Span Development (13th edition), and Educational Psychology (5th edition).

For many years John was involved in tennis as a player, a teaching professional, and a coach of professional tennis players. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the University of Miami (FL) tennis team that still holds the record for consecutive wins (137) in any NCAA Division I sport. John has been married for more than 35 years to his wife, Mary Jo, who is a Realtor. He has two daughters—Tracy, who is also a Realtor, and Jennifer, who is a medical sales specialist. He has one granddaughter, Jordan, age 20, and two grandsons, Alex, age 7, and Luke, age 5. In the last decade, John also has spent time painting expressionist art.