Dr. Vincent Waldron is Professor of Communication Studies at Arizona State University, where he is also Associate Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. He is the author of four books on communication, including Communicating Forgiveness (with Douglas Kelley) and the forthcoming Communicating Emotion at Work (Polity Press).

Dr. Vincent Waldron theorizes that recent economic failures can be attributed in part to the suppression by organizations of such emotions as guilt and fear, a circumstance that fostered excessive risk-taking and unethical conduct. He illustrates this with stories collected from funeral directors and factory workers, prison guards and preachers, secretaries and stock-brokers.