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Catherine A. Sanderson Ph.D.

Catherine A. Sanderson, Ph.D. is the Manwell Family Professor in Life Sciences at Amherst College and the author of The Positive Shift: Mastering Mindset to Improve Happiness, Health, and Longevity and Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels. She has written five college textbooks, including Real World Psychology, as well as widely-taught middle and high school health textbooks.

Sanderson lectures around the country and was chosen by The Princeton Review® as one of the best college professors in America. Her work has been featured in the Atlantic and Washington Post and on CBS and NBC.