William J RayWilliam J. Ray is a Professor of Psychology at Penn State University. He received his PhDfrom Vanderbilt University and was a Fellow in Medical Psychology at the University ofCalifornia Medical Center in San Francisco. He received hi undergraduate degree fromEckerd College, where he learned about the value of primary sources and the need to integrate informationfrom a number of perspectives. As part of his clinical training, he has worked in a number ofmental hospitals and clinics across the country, where he developed an appreciation of the experiencesof those with mental disorders. In his career, he has served as a visiting professor and researcher at theUniversity of Hawaii, Munster University, University of Rome, Tubingen University, and KonstanzUniversity. At Penn State, he is currently the Director of the SCAN (Specialization in Cognitive andAffective Neuroscience) program and was previously the Director of the Clinical Psychology Program.His research has focused on approaching clinical questions from a neuroscience perspective. He hasused psychophysiological and brain imaging techniques such as EEG, MEG, DTI, and fMRI to studyemotionality, psychopathology, and individual differences. These studies can be found in numerousarticles, book chapters, and books. His work has been published in such journals as Science, Proceedingsof the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Physiological Reviews, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Cognitive Brain Research, Biological Psychology, NeuroImage, and Clinical Neurophysiology. This workhas been funded by both national and international agencies including NIH, NIMH, NASA, NATO, and the DAAD. In addition to research, teaching has been an important part of his career. His textbooksinclude Methods Toward a Psychology of Behavior and Experience, Psychophysiological Methods (withRobert Stern & Karen Quigley), and Evolutionary Psychology: Neuroscience Perspectives ConcerningHuman Behavior and Experience. Read More Read Less
