Professor Mark Leary is Garonzik Family Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and faculty director of the Duke Interdisciplinary Initiative in Social Psychology. He has published 14 books and over 250 scientific papers on social motivation, self-presentation, and identity, with a particular interest in how people’s emotions, behaviors, and self-views are influenced by their concerns with other people’s evaluations of them. Professor Leary has ranked among the top 40 social and personality psychologists in the world with the greatest impact.