An associate professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist whose current research is devoted to personality assessment and the prediction of creativity and of academic and industrial performance. He also does experimental and theoretical work on self-deception, neuropsychology, alcoholism and drug abuse, motivation for social conflict, and the psychology of mythology and religion. A graduate of the University of Alberta, Dr. Peterson earned a Ph.D. in psychology at McGill University in 1991. He was a post-doctoral fellow at McGill’s Douglas Hospital before joining the psychology faculty of Harvard University in 1993. He was promoted to associate professor and then, in 1997, moved on to the University of Toronto. He was named to his present position in 2000. His work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Councils of Canada and the Rotman Business School Center for Integrative Thinking. While at Harvard, he was nominated for the Levenson Teaching Prize, and each year from 2005-2008, TV Ontario has cited him as one of Ontario’s best university lecturers. Dr. Peterson is a frequent commentator on Canadian current affairs programs and serves on the editorial boards of several psychology journals. He also acts as a business consultant, working as an executive coach for senior partners of large law firms in Toronto, in addition to his clinical practice, and is the vice president of a neuropsychological assessment company, Examcorp.com. The author or co-author of more than sixty articles published in academic journals, he is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, which was published by Routledge in 1999 and was made into a thirteen-part televised lecture series on TV Ontario. He is presently working on a new book about brain function and the nature of experience.