Douglas Gentile, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Iowa State University.  An award-winning educator, research scientist, and author, he was named one of America’s “Top 300 Professors” by the Princeton Review and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. With decades of scientific research and training in several styles of Buddhism, he has a dual expertise in Western psychological science and Eastern philosophy. The author or editor of several books and well over 100 peer-reviewed scientific studies, Dr. Gentile’s work has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition, the BBC, CNN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and in The New York Times.