Cognitive Psychologist; Professor of Psychology, Howard College of Arts and Sciences, Samford University; Chair, National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology; Carnegie Scholar; Named “U.S. Professor of the Year” by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education; Author, “How Students Fool Themselves” (2025, The Teaching Professor), “The Indicator of a Great Teacher” (2024, The Teaching Professor), and “The (Often Misconstrued) Relationship between Learning, Effort, and Difficulty” (2023, The Teaching Professor); Co-Author, “The Cognitive Challenges of Effective Teaching” (2020, The Journal of Economic Education), “Practice What We Teach: Improving Teaching and Learning in Psychology” (2018, Teaching of Psychology), and “The Cognitive Principles of Effective Teaching” (2015, APA)