Dr. VAUGHN BECKER is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. He received a PhD in Experimental Psychology from Arizona State University in 2005, and conducts research on how strong emotional and highly stressful events affect basic cognitive processes. He is an author on over 20 peer reviewed publications, and is the Principal Investigator on a grant from the National Science Foundation (BCS-0642873) which provided partial support for this research.