An American professor of psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia, William Von Hippel has devoted much of his academic career to exploring thesocial hypothesis. His findings and experiments have been published in peer-reviewed journals, and his research on topics such as inhibition, aging, risk-taking, self-deception and persuasion has been covered in outlets including CBS, ABC, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Fox News, BBC, NBC, NPR, Discovery Channel, Financial Times, Self, TIME, The Boston Globe, Salon, and New York Magazine. He lives in Brisbane, Australia.