Jonathan W. Schooler, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, pursues research on consciousness, memory, the relationship between language and thought, problem-solving, and decision-making. Currently, he is particularly interested in exploring phenomena that intersect between the empirical and the philosophical such as how fluctuations in people’s awareness of their experience mediate mind-wandering and how exposing individuals to philosophical positions alters their behavior. A cum laude graduate of Hamilton College where he was elected to Sigma Xi, he earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Washington in 1987. Dr. Schooler joined the psychology faculty of the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor that same year and became a research scientist at Pittsburgh’s Learning Research and Development Center. Named a full professor in 2001, he moved on to the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2004 as professor of psychology, holder of a Canada Research Chair in Social Cognitive Science, and senior investigator at UBC’s Brain Research Centre. He accepted his present position last year. Dr. Schooler has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington. A fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, he has been the recipient of four Akumal Scholar Awards from the Positive Psychology Network, an Osher Fellowship given by the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco, and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellowship. His work has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the University of Pittsburgh, the Unilever Corporation, the Center for Consciousness Studies, the Office of Educational Research, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Research, the Bial Foundation, and the Bower Foundation. He currently is on the editorial boards of Consciousness and Cognition and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Dr. Schooler is the author or co-author of more than one hundred papers published in scientific journals and the editor (with J.C. Cohen) of Scientific Approaches to Consciousness, which was published in 1997 by Lawrence Erlbaum.