NeilJ. Salkind has been teaching at the University of Kansas for 30 years,in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education. He taught courses indevelopmental theories, life-span development, statistics, and research methodsand received his PhD in human development from the University of Maryland.He has published more than 80 professional papers and is the author of severalcollege-level textbooks, including Statistics for People Who (Think They) HateStatistics ( now in the third edition ),Child Development, Exploring Research, and Introduction to Theories of HumanDevelopment (Sage 2004). He was editor of Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography from 1989 through 2002 and is active in the Society for Researchin Child Development.