Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies

Scott T. Allison is Professor of Psychology at the University of Richmond. He has published extensively on heroism and leadership and numerous books, including Heroes and Heroic Leadership; Reel Heroes, Conceptions of Leadership; Frontiers in Spiritual Leadership; and the Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership. His work has appeared in USA Today, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Slate Magazine, MSNBC, CBS, Psychology Today, and the Christian Science Monitor. He has received Richmond's Distinguished Educator Award and the Virginia Council of Higher Education's Outstanding Faculty Award.

James K. Beggan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo for his undergraduate work and earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Over the years, he has taught courses on a wide range of topics including consumer behavior, industrial psychology, gender, human sexuality, quantitative research methods, statistics, and the self and society. He has published research on the psychology of ownership and the sexual self-concept, including how people overestimate their abilities to resist temptation. His current research interests involve logistical problems involved in creating and maintaining consensually nonmonogamous relationships, social conflicts created in human-animals interactions, and leadership dynamics. His books include Sexual Harassment, the Abuse of Power and the Crisis of Leadership: "Superstar" Harassers and How to Stop Them; The Dilemma of Coalition Formation in Consensual Nonmonogamy: Three Against Two Against One; How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict; and The Decisions to Open a Relationship: To Three or Not to Three. He coauthored The Hazards of Great Leadership: Detrimental Consequences of Leader Exceptionalism with Scott T. Allison and George Goethals.

George R. Goethals is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies Emeritus at the University of Richmond. Previously he held academic and administrative appointments at Williams College where he served as the chair of the Department of Psychology, Acting Dean of the Faculty, Provost, and, finally, founder and chair of the Program in Leadership Studies. He taught courses on theories of leadership and presidential leadership. His recent scholarship focuses on presidential leadership, heroism and leader-follower dynamics. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association and Richmond's Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Scott T. Allison 是里士滿大學的心理學教授。他在英雄主義和領導力方面發表了大量研究，並出版了多本書籍，包括《英雄與英雄領導力》、《電影英雄、領導力的概念》、《靈性領導力的前沿》以及《英雄主義與英雄領導力手冊》。他的研究成果曾出現在《今日美國》、《全國公共廣播電台》、《紐約時報》、《洛杉磯時報》、《Slate雜誌》、《MSNBC》、《CBS》、《心理學今日》和《基督科學箴言報》等媒體上。他獲得了里士滿大學的傑出教育者獎和維吉尼亞高等教育委員會的傑出教職員獎。

James K. Beggan 是美國肯塔基州路易斯維爾大學的社會學教授。他在紐約州立大學水牛城校區完成本科學業，並在加州大學聖巴巴拉分校獲得心理學博士學位。多年來，他教授的課程涵蓋了消費者行為、工業心理學、性別、人類性行為、定量研究方法、統計學以及自我與社會等多個主題。他在擁有心理學和性自我概念方面發表了研究，包括人們如何高估自己抵抗誘惑的能力。他目前的研究興趣涉及創建和維持共識非一夫一妻關係的後勤問題、人類與動物互動中產生的社會衝突以及領導動態。他的著作包括《性騷擾、權力濫用與領導危機：'超級明星'騷擾者及其制止方法》、《共識非一夫一妻制中的聯盟形成困境：三對二對一》、《我們對狗的熱愛如何造成社會衝突》以及《開放關係的決策：要三還是不三》。他與 Scott T. Allison 和 George Goethals 共同撰寫了《偉大領導的危險：領導者特殊性的不利後果》。

George R. Goethals 是里士滿大學的 E. Claiborne Robins 傑出領導研究名譽教授。他曾在威廉斯學院擔任學術和行政職位，並擔任心理學系主任、代理教務長、教務長，最後創立並擔任領導研究項目的主任。他教授有關領導理論和總統領導的課程。他最近的學術研究集中在總統領導、英雄主義和領導者-追隨者動態上。他曾獲得國際領導協會的終身成就獎和里士滿大學的傑出學術獎。