Brenda Russell, PhD, is an associate professor in the applied psychology program at Pennsylvania State University, Berks in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her recent research involves using the Internet to design, administer, and collect survey and experimental research data.

John Purcell, MBA, MS, is recently retired from Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont, where he was department chair and professor and coordinator of the e-commerce concentration in the Department of Business Administration.