Psychology of Space Exploration
space. She has participated in various television documentaries and has over 60
publications and over 50 scholarly presentations in both the medical and psycho-
logical fields on topics as diverse as psychometric assessment, research methodol-
ogy, outcomes research, psychosocial group dynamics, and human performance in
extreme environments. She is a senior associate editor and editorial board mem-
ber for the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments and its jour-
nal, Human Performance in Extreme Environments, as well as the International Journal
of Earth Science, Life Support and Biosphere Science. She serves as review editor for
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine and Astra Astronautica and as grants
reviewer for the Canadian Space Agency. She can be reached at sbishop@utmb.
edu, telephone 409-772-8216, or at the School of Nursing, Rte. 1029, University of
Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555.
Jennifer E. Boyd graduated with distinction from Stanford University with an
A.B. in psychology in 1989. She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical/com-
munity psychology at the University of Maryland, graduating in 1997. She finished
a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training pro-
gram at Columbia University in 2000. She worked as a researcher at the Center
for Health Care Evaluation at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs (VA) and Stanford
University Medical Center from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, she joined the faculty at
the University of California, San Francisco. She is the founding director of the
Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center at the San Francisco VA Medical
Center. Her research focuses on the influence of sociocultural factors on psycho-
pathology and its detection, such as the influence of stigma on the course of psy-
chosis, the effect of isolated and confined environments on mental health, and
the effect of culture on symptom patterns and the accuracy of assessment instru-
ments. She can be reached at [email protected], telephone 415-221-4810, or
at the Department of Psychiatry, UCSF/VA Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street
(116A), San Francisco, CA 94121.
Lindi Cassel graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2005 with a
B.S. in psychology. Following graduation, she worked as a research assistant under Dr.
Peter Suedfeld, conducting research on diverse topics such as resilience in genocide