About the Author

Beth Morling is Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware.  She attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before teaching at Delaware, she held positions at Union College (New York) and Muhlenberg College (Pennsylvania).  She teaches research methods at Delaware almost every semester, and she also teaches undergraduate cultural psychology, a seminar on the self-concept, and a graduate course on the teaching of psychology.  Her research in the area of cultural psychology explores how cultural practices shape people’s motivations.  Dr. Morling has been a Fulbright scholar in Kyoto, Japan, and was the Delaware State Professor of the Year (2014), an award from CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.