The advisory board consists of highly distinguished members of the academic community who specialize in multidisciplinary aspects of relationship research. Not only do they provide strategic guidance and vision to our research design, but they also work collaboratively with us to develop eHarmony products and studies. This innovative blend of theory and application emphasizes eHarmony Lab’s commitment to exploring relationships and providing research-driven products.
Thomas Bradbury, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Bradbury, Ph.D, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Illinois and completed his clinical internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Bradbury is the editor of The Psychology of Marriage (with Frank Fincham,1990) and The Developmental Course of Marital Dysfunction (1998). He is a member of the Risk Prevention and Health Behavior Review Committee at the National Institute of Mental Health, and he is an editorial board member for several journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the Journal of Family Psychology, and the Journal of Marriage and the Family. Dr. Bradbury is the recipient of the 1997 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions from the American Psychological Association and has twice received the Reuben Hill Award for Research and Theory on Marriage from the National Council on Family Relations. Dr. Bradbury currently conducts basic research on the longitudinal course of marriage, with particular emphasis on laboratory observation and interview methods. A central goal of this work is to understand how newlywed couples negotiate the first several years of marriage (which constitute the period of highest risk for marital disruption) and to clarify the factors that increase or decrease the likelihood of couples having stable, satisfying relationships. Findings from this research are being used to develop an intervention program for couples planning marriage, and an experimental version of this program is now being tested to examine its effects on marital disruption over a 3-year period.
John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D., is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago and the Director of the University of Chicago’s Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. He currently is the President-Elect of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and a member of the National Advisory Council on Aging of the US Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, he is a Fellow of numerous scientific societies including the Society of Experimental Psychologists, Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Academy of Behavioral Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his awards are the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award, Society for Psychophysiological Research Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychophysiology, and Donald Campbell Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He has published more than a dozen books and 300 scientific articles and chapters. Dr. Cacioppo is currently investigating the social and neural mechanisms underlying complex human behavior through an approach termed social neuroscience. Current research on this topic focuses on individual differences in affective processing, and the neural substrates of affective and socioemotional processing.
David A. Kenny, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut
David A. Kenny, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Psychology from Northwestern University, 1972 and is currently Distinguished Board of Trustees and Alumni Professor at the University of Connecticut. His interests are in social interaction and interpersonal perception. Dr. Kenny has worked with experimental and non-experimental data specifically involving structural equation modeling, longitudinal data analysis, and program evaluation. He has focused on how design decisions affect statistical analysis and on the issue of multiple levels of analysis. He is the author of six books, the most recent being Dyadic Data Analysis, the first book-length treatment of this topic. He received the Donald Campbell Award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2006 and has work is highly cited, one paper being cited over 7000 times.
Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University
Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D., is the Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University. Dr. McEwen grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from the University High School in 1955. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry from Oberlin College in 1959 and obtained his Ph.D. in Cell Biology in 1964 from The Rockefeller University. He returned to Rockefeller in 1966 to work with the psychologist, Professor Neal Miller, after postdoctoral studies in neurobiology in Sweden and a brief period on the faculty at the University of Minnesota. He was appointed as Professor at Rockefeller in 1981. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has also been a core member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He served as Dean of Graduate Studies from 1991-1993 and as President of the Society for Neuroscience in 1997-1998. As a neuroscientist and neuroendocrinologist, Dr. McEwen studies environmentally-regulated, variable gene expression in brain mediated by circulating steroid hormones and endogenous neurotransmitters in relation to brain sexual differentiation and the actions of sex, stress and thyroid hormones on the adult brain.
Linda Waite, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Linda Waite, Ph.D., is Lucy Flower Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children and Work at the University of Chicago, where she also directs the Center on Aging. She is past chair of the Family Section of the American Sociological Association and past president of the Population Association of America. Her current research interests include the working family, especially dual-career couples with children and the impact of job characteristics on parenting. She is also interested in the role of the family at older ages in functioning of individuals, intergenerational transfers and exchanges, and employment. She has published widely on the family, including an award-winning book with Frances Goldscheider, New Families, No Families: The Transformation of the American Home. Her most recent book, The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially, with Maggie Gallagher, won the 2000 book award from the Coalition for Marriage, Family, and Couples Education.
