Michael Spezio, PhD, MDiv, is an affective and social neuroscientist and teaches psychology and neuroscience at Scripps College in Claremont, California. As a year-long resident fellow at the interdisciplinary Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, he is finishing work on a project entitled Mindful-Emotional Persons: From Cognitive Science and Virtue Theory to Character in Loving Encounter. Michael holds a doctoral degree in systems and cognitive neuroscience and another in biochemistry as well as a masters in divinity.