Beyond Words

Dr. Bram Goldwater was educated at McGill, Cornell, and Bowling Green universities and is currently a professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He has been teaching the basic principles of learning for more than twenty years, bringing to it an avid interest in both the understanding of behavior and in the best ways to communicate that understanding to others.

His other research and teaching interests include the physiological study of arousal and emotion, modification of bodily reactions, and the relationship between psychology and disease. 

Dr. Goldwater's publications in leading scientific journals and his training of numerous doctoral students have given him a well-deserved reputation as a careful scholar and teacher in the analysis of behavior. Furthermore, his co-development, with Dr. Acker, of innovative instructional methods for the teaching of basic psychological principles to university students as well as to parents, teachers, and community personnel has given him the sensitivity and expertise that helps make this book readable and practical. 

Dr. Goldwater dedicates his contributions in this book to his students who, over the years, have convinced him of the importance of the instructional principles on which this book is based.