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Dr. Sharon Presley has a Ph.D. in social psychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center where her mentor was Dr. Stanley Milgram, author of the classic study, Obedience to Authority. Her Ph.D. dissertation was a study of political resisters to authority. She now teaches psychology and critical thinking courses at California State University, East Bay in Hayward. Her research specialties are obedience and resistance to authority, women resisters to authority, and gender issues.

Dr. Presley is also working on a practical book on dealing with authority, tentatively entitled Standing Up to Experts and Authorities: How to Avoid Being Intimidated, Manipulated, and Abused to be published by Solomon Press in 2008.