Dylan Selterman

Dylan Selterman received his B.A. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Social/Health Psychology from Stony Brook University in 2011. He is a social psychologist by training, with background in developmental psychology as well. Dr. Selterman runs the DREAM Lab at Maryland, with research interests including romantic attraction/dating, emotions (e.g., jealousy), attachment in interpersonal relationships, patterns of dreaming, sexual behavior, and morality/ethics. Dr. Selterman has published original research in Social Psychological and Personality Science, the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Attachment and Human Development, Motivation and Emotion, and Dreaming. He is currently a writer for Science of Relationships, the editor-in-chief for In Mind Magazine, and is an active member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the International Association for Relationships Research. He currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Dr. Selterman teaches Introductory Psychology (PSYC 100), Social Psychology (PSYC 221), Living the Good Life: The Psychology of Happiness (PSYC 289D), Interpersonal Relationships (PSYC 334), and Research Laboratory in Social Psychology (PSYC 420). Outside of the classroom, Dr. Selterman is a Lilly Fellow Alumnus, and leads a mindfulness meditation group for students. For more on the “tragedy of the commons” extra credit exercise that went viral, read his pieces in The Washington Post and The Conversation.