About the Editors
Reinout W. Wiers is Research Associate
Professor at Maastricht University, The
Netherlands. He received his masters degree
in psychonomics (experimental psychology
and psychophysiology) at the University of
Amsterdam (1992, with honors) and his
PhD (with honors) in 1998 at the University
of Amsterdam on cognitive and neuropsy-
chological indicators of enhanced risk for
alcoholism. He has published many articles in
international journals on addiction research
and in cognitive science. Wiers and colleagues
were the first to apply the Implicit Association
Test (IAT) to alcohol abuse and are currently
focusing on theory, assessment, and practical
applications of implicit drug-related cognitions
with a grant from the Dutch National Science
Foundation (N.W.O. VIDI grant). Stacy and
Wiers are collaborating on an international
project (N.W.O. Addiction and N.I.D.A.)
on implicit cognition and prevention in
high-risk youth.
Alan W. Stacy is currently the director of
the USC Transdisciplinary Drug Abuse
Prevention Research Center, funded by the
National Institute on Drug Abuse. He is
also an associate professor at the University
of Southern California Department of
Preventive Medicine. Stacy has published
more than 80 peer-reviewed articles on
addiction, focusing on cognitive models of
drug use. He was one of the first investigators
to apply implicit cognition approaches to the
addiction area. His research on implicit
cognition was recently acknowledged in the
10th Special Report to Congress on Alcohol
and Health.
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