Richard E. Heyman, Ph.D., is research professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research focuses on family dysfunction, especially family violence. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 scholarly papers, book chapters and books and has received over 20 federal research grants. His alliance with Ashley was forged two and a half years ago when she arrived at Stony Brook and her passion for “Survivor” got him to start watching the show.