Murray R. Barrick is the Stanley M. Howe Leadership Chair at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association. The author of numerous scholarly articles and chapters, he also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

Ann Marie Ryan is a professor of industrial/organizational psychology at Michigan State University and president of Employee Research Group, a consulting firm. She is president of Division 14 of the American Psychological Association as well as president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.