John H. Krantz received his psychology PhD from the University of Florida. After graduate school, he
worked in industry at Honeywell on visual factors related to cockpit displays. In 1990, he returned to
academia, taking a position at Hanover College. John has done extensive research in vision, human factors,
computers in psychology, and the use of the Web as a medium for psychological research. He has
been program chair and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and editor of the journal
Behavior Research Methods. John was the first to develop Web experiments in psychological science and
led the way on techniques for sending multimedia via the Web. He has served as a faculty associate for
The Psychology Place, developing interactive learning activities, and created psychology’s first global
website for the Association for Psychological Science (APS). In addition, he is an author for both the
Cognitive Toolkit and PsychSim 6. John is well known for his widely used online psychological experiments
related to sensation, perception, and cognition. His current research is focused on using the Web
for psychological research and modeling the visual system.
