Mark Leary

http://www.duke.edu/~leary/

At the most general level, my interests are in social and personality psychology, centering around topics involving the self, interpersonal motivation and emotion, and interfaces of social and clinical psychology. I have been particularly interested in how people's behavior and emotion are affected by their concerns about others' impressions, evaluations, and acceptance of them. Recently, I've also become interested in the ways in which people's inner self-talk creates personal and social problems.