Francis C. Dane, Ph.D. is William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Psychology at Mercer University (Macon, GA, USA). He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Research in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Mercer University School of Medicine and chairs the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the Protection of Human Research Participants. After earning a Ph.D. from the Social Psychology Program at the University of Kansas in 1979, Dane held academic positions at SUNY College at Oswego and Clemson University before coming to Mercer. He has published books, articles, and chapters in the areas of research methods and ethics, social psychology, jury decision processes, prejudice and stereotypes, and in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He is the Editor of Contemporary Social Psychology, an international journal, and is a member of numerous professional organizations in Psychology, Statistics, and Medicine.