Gerald Matthews was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is now Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. He is interested in how cognitive science may be used to make sense of personality, emotion and other expressions of human irrationality and rationality. He has received book awards from the British Psychological Society and the American Publishers Association. He is currently President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, and President of the Traffic and Transportation Division of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. His current research interests include highlighting the dangers of fatigue in the automated vehicle, seeking the intelligence in "emotional intelligence", and investigating relationships between personality, mood and cognitive control.