Dr. David F. Bjorklund, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in developmental and evolutionary psychology since 1976. He received a BA degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1971, an MA degree in Psychology from the University of Dayton in 1973, and a Ph.D. degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. Bjorklund has received numerous research and teaching awards from Florida Atlantic University, and is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He served as Associate Editor of Child Development (1997-2001) and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Dr. Bjorklund has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals and also served as a contributing editor to Parents Magazine. He has published more than 170 scholarly articles on various topics relating to child development and evolutionary psychology and has received financial support for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the German Research Foundation. His other books include Children’s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, now in its 5th edition; Parents Book of Discipline (with Barbara Bjorklund); Applied Child Study (with Anthony Pellegrini); Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young; Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development (with Barbara Bjorklund); The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony Pellegrini); False-Memory Creation in Children and Adults: Theory, Research, and Implications; Children’s Strategies: Contemporary Views of Cognitive Development; and Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (edited with Bruce Ellis). His current research interests include children’s cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. He lives in Jupiter, Florida, with his wife Barbara, and enjoys cooking, playing basketball, traveling and kayaking.