Gary Lewandowski

Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. is a Professor of Psychology at Monmouth University, Director of the Relationship Science Lab, as well as the Co-Creator/Co-Editor of www.TeachPsychScience.org.

He is a nationally recognized teacher who The Princeton Review recognized among its Best 300 Professors from an initial list of 42,000. He has also won Distinguished Teaching Awards at Stony Brook University and at Monmouth, and had his Intimate Relationships course featured in a USA Today article.

He has published over 50 journal articles and chapters, received numerous grants, and has given well over 100 presentations. Along with his team of undergraduate research assistants, his research focuses on the self and relationships, focusing on questions like: What leads people to form relationships? What makes for a successful relationship? What leads someone to cheat?, and How does break-up effect one’s sense of self? His research also examines ways to improve research methods and statistics instruction. In recognition of these efforts, he received the Emerging Researcher Award from the New Jersey Psychology Association and was inducted into the Society for Experimental Social Psychologists.

His work and expertise has been featured in media outlets such as: The New York Times, CNN, APA Monitor, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s World, Marie Claire, WebMD, Women’s Health, Self Magazine, Woman’s Day, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Men’s Health, Scientific American Mind, and USA Today. He also has given a TED talk on “Break-ups Don’t Have To Leave You Broken” that has over one million views. He also writes for popular press sources such as Business Insider, The Conversation, Refinery29, New York Magazine (Science of Us), The Washington Post, The Independent, and Scientific American, all of which have been read over 3.5 million times.

He has co-authored a research methods textbook, Discovering the Scientist Within: Research Methods in Psychology from Worth Publishers, now in its 2nd edition. He is currently under contract to write a statistics textbook as well as a trade book on relationship myths with Little Brown and Company Publishers.

Visit: www.GaryLewandowski.com