Ann Kring received a B.S. in psychology from Ball State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is currently Professor of the Graduate School and formerly Chair of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focused on emotion and psychopathology, with a specific interest in the emotional features of schizophrenia, including the negative symptoms and the linkage between social motivation and emotion. Kring and her group also worked to translate laboratory findings into effective assessment tools and psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia. Kring is past president of the Society for Research in Psychopathology and the Society for Affective Science, and a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Society for Experimental Psychologists, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has co-authored 13 books and published over 125 scholarly papers in the top journals in the field.