Authors
LAURA Y THOMPSON, PHD
Laura Yamhure Thompson has a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas where she was Research Director of the Heartland Forgiveness Project and was awarded a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for her research regarding forgiveness, stress, and health. She completed predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in clinical psychology at the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital and the Cambridge Health Alliance, respectively. Currently, she has a clinical and consulting private practice, and she is a teacher and trainer of mindfulness-based programs offered privately and through organizations, including the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
C R SNYDER, PHD
C R (Rick) Snyder (1944-2006) was Wright Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and he was editor of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology for 12 years. Well known for his work at the interface of clinical, social, personality, and health psychology, his research pertained to hope, how people react to personal feedback, the human need for uniqueness, and forgiveness. He was a pioneer in the field of positive psychology and developed hope research into a self-sustaining field of study. Rick Snyder was a mentor to Laura Yamhure Thompson and countless others in the field of psychology, and he is dearly missed.
LESA HOFFMAN, PHD
Lesa Hoffman received her PhD in Psychology at the University of Kansas in 2003. She was the quantitative specialist for the Heartland Forgiveness Project and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at The Pennsylvania State University before joining the Department of Psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln as an Assistant Professor in 2006 (and as Associate Professor in 2011). Lesa Hoffman was the Scientific Director of the Research Design and Analysis (RDA) Unit and Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies at the University of Kansas in August 2014 from August 2014 to January 2019. In January 2019, she became Professor in the Educational Measurement and Statistics Program in the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Founds in the College of Education at the University of Iowa. Her program of research seeks to empirically examine and to thoughtfully disseminate how developments in quantitative methodology can best be utilized to advance empirical work in the social sciences.