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 Association for Psychological Science and the Midwestern Psychological Association. His recent research has focused on practical aspects of memory. He is coauthor, with Benton J. Underwood, of Experimentation in Psychology (Wiley, 1975). Students selected him as the Hope Outstanding Professor Educator in 1992 and he received the Janet L. Andersen Excellence in Teaching Award from the college in 2008.