T.L. Brink

T.L. Brink is a social scientist with earned degrees from Claremont Men's College, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, and the University of Chicago. 

Dr. Brink has authored or edited twenty books, two dozen encyclopedia articles, and hundreds of journal articles, reviews, and conference presentations. His main topics of interest include clinical assessment and treatment of mental disorders in later life, religious phenomena, cancer attitudes, consumer behavior, qualitative research methods, and Big Data Analytics using Bayesian Sequential Statistics.

His books have been reviewed in the medical journals of six continents. His articles have received more than thirty thousand citations. 

He has been a member of the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, Psychonomic Society, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, American Sociological Association, Pacific Sociological Association, Western Psychological Association, Western Positive Psychology Association, Midwestern Psychological Association, International Council of Psychologists, Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia, Gerontological Society of America, American Academy of Religion, Religious Research Association, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 

He has served as editor, editorial board member, or peer reviewer for more than a dozen professional journals. He has been appointed to the faculties of Stanford University School of Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, Universidad Iberoamericana, University of Redlands, and University of California Riverside. 

He is currently professor of psychology at Crafton Hills College where he has been teaching online since 1996. On YouTube, he has over 600 videos which have received over two million hits for HEADLESSPROFESSOR. Dr. Brink resides in Mexico, Chicago, and California. 

Victoria Karalun is a 40-year-old mother to a 12-year-old boy and wife of 18 years. She is obsessed with cats, reading, travel, learning languages, and Pokemon Go.

Her main focus in psychological research have been in pregnancy and childbirth and personality.  Her interest in pregnancy and childbirth started when she became a labor and delivery photographer in 2011. Over one hundred births later, she became motivated to improve conditions of childbirth. She has been a regular columnist for Sacred Pregnancy and Belly Belly magazines, and published in several other publications, using her original research to educate. She has presented her research at over forty conferences around the U.S.

She has been a member of the Association for Psychological Science, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Pacific Sociological Association, Western Psychological Association, Western Positive Psychology Association, American Academy of Religion, and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Victoria currently spends her time writing both fiction and non-fiction.