Virginia Murphy-Berman has a PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. She also completed a post-doc in Law and Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Murphy-Berman has published over 50 articles, books, and book chapters, including 4 books written after she retired. For 12 years she was a faculty member in the Psychology Dept of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York where she regularly offered courses in cross-cultural psychology and the psychology of well-being. Over the course of the years Dr. Murphy-Berman has had an opportunity to travel extensively, and she spent a year each living in India, Austria and Germany. Her hobbies include painting, playing the mandolin and writing.