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Stephen M. Kosslyn is the Founding Dean of the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute (one of the Claremont Colleges). He served as Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and was previously chair of the Department of Psychology, Dean of Social Science, and the John Lindsley Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. He was also Associate Psychologist in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and co-director of the Mind of the Market Lab at Harvard Business School. He received a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, both in psychology. Kosslyn has authored or coauthored 14 books and over 300 papers, for which he has received numerous honors, including the US National Academy of Sciences Initiatives in Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three honorary Doctorates (University of Caen, University of Paris Descartes, Bern University), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]