Elizabeth Yost Hammer is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development and a Kellogg Professor in Teaching at Xavier University of Louisiana. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Tulane University in 1994. She is passionate about teaching and regularly teaches Introductory Psychology, Research Methods, and Health Psychology. Her scholarly interests focus on teaching and learning, and she is a co-author of the textbook, Psychology Applied to Modern Life, now in its 12th Edition. She is the author of the teacher’s edition for Myers and DeWall’s AP Psychology, and Blair-Broeker and Ernst’s Thinking About Psychology. Dr. Hammer is a past-president of Psi Chi, a past-treasurer of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and served as Chief Reader for the Advanced Placement Psychology. She, her husband, and their two dogs work, play, and self-isolate in New Orleans, Louisiana