Bill received his A.B. degree in psychology from Stanford University and his Ph.D from the University of Oregon. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in personality psychology. Before joining the faculty at St. Johns in January, 2004, Bill was on the faculty at the University of Illinois (joint appointment in personality and quantitative psychology), Auburn University (quantitative psychology), and the University of Alabama (quantitative psychology with a joint appointment in applied statistics). He has also spent sabbatical years at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and at New York University, and he was a visiting professor at Phillips University in Marburg, Germany.