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About

Empowering 12 million+ people to create deeper, stronger, and more meaningful connections—through science. 

Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. is a husband, girl dad, relationship scientist, Chief Love Scientist at LoveStrategies.com, author, TEDx Speaker, Psychology Today Contributor, and Co-Host of the Love Strategies Podcast.

 

Dr. Lewandowski is a first generation college student who went to college and loved it so much he never left. As a professor in the Department of Psychology at Monmouth University. Dr. Lewandowski's research, writing, and public speaking focuses on three main areas: romantic relationships, self and identity, and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). He has published over 70 academic books/articles/chapters, given over 120 conference presentations (most with student coauthors), and has co-authored several textbooks (research methods, statistics, introduction to psychology). He is a nationally recognized teacher who the Princeton Review counted as its Best 300 Professors from an initial list of 42,000. He has won teaching awards everywhere he has taught. 

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Dr. Lewandowski first book Stronger Than You Think: The 10 Blind Spots That Undermine Your Relationship...and How to See Past Them was published by Little Brown - Spark.

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​Between his TEDx talk, Break-ups Don't Have to Leave You Broken, his column in Psychology Today, media articles, and podcast, Dr. Lewandowski’s relationship insights have been enjoyed by over 12 million people.  

 

As a nationally recognized relationship expert, numerous media outlets have featured Dr. Lewandowski’s work, including: The New York Times, CNN, The Atlantic, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s World, Marie Claire, WebMD, Women’s Health, Self Magazine, Psychology Today, Woman’s Day, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Men’s Health, Scientific American Mind, and USA Today. In addition, his writing has appeared in a number of outlets including: Time, Newsweek, New Republic, Scientific American, The Conversation, Business Insider, Refinery29, New York Magazine's Science of Us, and The Washington Post.

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