Intimate Relationships: Edition 2

Dr. Wind Goodfriend has been named Faculty of the Year three times in her 19 years as a professor at Buena Vista University. This distinction is the result of an all-student vote, and her General Psychology course was chosen as the “Most Recommended” individual class in the entire university by the BVU newspaper. She has also won the Wythe Award, one of the largest collegiate teaching prizes in the nation. She has written over a dozen book chapters about psychology in pop culture, four textbooks for Sage, three Audible audiobooks about psychology, dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, and has published over 30 journal articles featuring her undergraduate students as the first author. She also wrote and “starred” in a docuseries about the psychology of cult manipulation for The Great Courses. Wind won the 2023 Undergraduate Teaching & Mentoring Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Dr. Gary W. Lewandowski Jr. started college right after high school and loved it so much he never left. As a professor at Monmouth University, he has published over 70 academic books/articles/chapters and given over 120 conference presentations (most with student coauthors). 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. He has given a TEDx talk, Break-ups Don’t Have to Leave You Broken, which has over 2.6 million views, and has written over 150 articles for mass media outlets that have been enjoyed by over 8 million readers. He has also written a research methods textbook and authored Stronger Than You Think: The 10 Blind Spots That Undermine Your Relationship... and How to See Past Them.