Jon Maner, Ph.D., is an award-winning teacher, researcher, and mentor, and an internationally recognized leader in the science of motivation. His lab studies motivated social processes from evolutionary and social psychological perspectives. His work spans a variety of areas including social hierarchy, social affiliation, and close relationships.

Jon has published more than 200 scholarly articles and chapters in top journals, such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Review, Evolution and Human Behavior, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been an Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and currently serves as an Associate Editor at Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.

He has been awarded millions of dollars in federal grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Evolution and Human Behavior Society. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, Discovery News, National Public Radio, The Huffington Post, CNN, and dozens of other major media outlets.