The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology

LEE E. ROSS is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he teaches courses on victimology, domestic violence, research methods, and race, crime, and justice. He has written extensively on the relationship between religion, self-esteem, and delinquency, and his most recent work examines the publication experiences of African American criminologists.

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with the New Yorker since 1996. He is a former writer at the Washington Post and served as the newspaper's New York City bureau chief. He has won a National Magazine Award, and in 2005 he was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He is the author of four books: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, and Outliers: The Story of Success, all of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. His book What the Dog Saw is a compilation of stories published in the New Yorker. Gladwell graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. He was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City.