PROFILE

Harry T. Reis, Ph.D., is Dean’s Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rochester. Reis’s research focuses on intimacy and understanding in close relationships, with an emphasis on their implications for health and emotional well-being, including loneliness. He is particularly interested in the ways that being responsive (understanding, validating, caring) to our partners shape relationships and individual behavior. Reis has contributed more than 250 papers to the scholarly literature and has received Distinguished Career Contribution Awards for his research from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2015) and the International Association for Relationship Research (2012), as well as the University of Rochester’s Georgen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Teaching in 2009.