S. Beth Bellman earned her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Decision Neuroscience from the University of Iowa, an MA in Personality and Social Psychology also from the University of Iowa, and her Masters in Education from Harvard University. She was formally introduced to the study of negotiation in a class she took as part of her Masters degree at Harvard Law School with Roger Fisher. She found herself immediately fascinated by the topic as it relied heavily on interpersonal communication and offered the potential for creating value. She was simultaneously studying the Social Psychology of Organizations with Richard Hackman and noticed the prevalence of negotiation in organizational settings and the role of social psychological principles at play in negotiation. Beth’s understanding of personality psychology and social cognition grew as she pursued her doctoral studies. She was most interested in the application and implications of social psychological principles in business environments. Teaching negotiation is one specific way she is able to bring together some of what we know from the field of social psychology with a practical life and business skill. Beth would like to acknowledge the support of her colleagues in the Tippie College of Business including Jay Christensen-Szalanski, Amy Kristof-Brown, and Amy Colbert.