Karen E. Dill-Shackleford is a professor of psychology at Fielding Graduate University and the author of How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Seeing through Media Influence. She makes her home in Hickory, North Carolina.

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From front, left to right: Karen E. Dill-Shackleford, Cynthia Vinney, Jerri Lynn Hogg, and Kristin Hopper-Losenicky