Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (5th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

Susan A. Nolan

Dr. Susan Alice Nolan is a clinical psychologist and psychology educator who studies critical thinking in the classroom, mental health, assessment in higher education, and gender disparities in STEM fields. She is a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University.

Dr. Nolan was President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and President of the Eastern Psychological Association from 2014-2015. She got the Fukuhara Award for Advanced International Research and Service from the International Council of Psychologists in 2020.

Thomas Heinzen

Dr. Thomas R. Heinzen is a Professor Emeritus at William Paterson University of New Jersey. He describes his career as “mostly fun” because of the diverse opportunities within social psychology.

Dr. Heinzen invested in students’ lives by mentoring more than 60 conference presentations. More recently, he created video games that teach critical thinking and the unwritten rules of college success.

He also has written several books and published journal articles based on case studies, archival analyses, in-depth interviews, controlled experiments, and quasi-experimental designs. He has been elected a fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), the American Psychological Association (APA, Division 1), and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).