Critical Thinking Across Disciplines, Volumes 1 and 2

Robert J. Sternberg is Professor of Psychology in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, USA, and Honorary Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University, Germany. Professor Sternberg is a Past President of the American Psychological Association, the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the Eastern Psychological Association, and the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology. He has also has been president of four divisions of the American Psychological Association and Treasurer of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Professor Sternberg is a member of the US National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has won over two dozen awards for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Award (1999) and the William James Fellow Award (2017) from APS and the Grawemeyer Award in Psychology (2018). He is the author and editor of over 2000 publications including Critical Thinking in Psychology, 2nd Edition (2020, edited with Diane F. Halpern). Weihua Niu is Professor of Psychology and the Director of Global Psychology at Pace University, USA. Professor Niu is recognized internationally for her cross-cultural research in creativity, intelligence, critical thinking, mathematical thinking and learning, learning difficulties, resilience, and social cognition, publishing more than 60 articles in English and Chinese in these areas, including two recent publications co-authored with her graduate students on the relationship between critical thinking and creativity (Park et al., 2021, 2023). She has received numerous awards and scholarships in Psychology, including the APA International Research Excellence Award and a fellowship from the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology.