David A. Pizarro, an assistant professor of psychology at Cornell University, writes about moral judgment, particularly moral intuitions, as well as about the impact of emotional states on thinking and decision-making. He was born in Argentina and graduated cum laude from Pacific Union College in Angwin, California. Going on to study social psychology at Yale University, where he held a University Fellowship, he took a Ph.D. in 2002. Dr. Pizarro was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Irvine and an instructor of psychology there before accepting his present position in 2006. The recipient of a traveling fellowship awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and a summer fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, he is the author or co-author of more than twenty articles published in academic journals and chapters in volumes of collected works.