Dr. Scott O. Lilienfeld, (late), Ph.D., was a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University until his death in 2020. He worked on the editorial boards of numerous publications and was the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Psychological Science and Associate Editor of Archives of Scientific Psychology.

Cognitive biases and their relationships to personality and psychopathology were among Dr. Lilienfeld’s main interests, as were scientific thinking and its application to psychology, the causes and assessment of personality disorders (especially psychopathic and narcissistic personality disorders), psychiatric classification and diagnosis, pseudoscience and clinical psychology, evidence-based clinical practise, and science and psychology philosophy. He received the Association for Psychological Science’s James McKeen Cattell Award for Distinguished Achievements in Applied Psychological Science and served as president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology and the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.