Peter Ditto is Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in psychology. Dr. Ditto is an experimental social psychologist whose expertise is in human judgment and decision making. His research focuses on "hot cognition" —
how motivation and emotion shape (and often bias) our social, political, moral, medical, and legal judgments.