Dante Cicchetti is McKnight Presidential Chair and Professor, Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Professor Cicchetti's major research interests lie in the formulation of an integrative developmental theory that can account for both normal and abnormal forms of growth.

Glen I. Roisman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests concern the legacy of early caregiving experiences as an organizing force in social, cognitive, and biological development across the lifespan.