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Christopher R. Agnew is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on close interpersonal relationships and employs relational models to understand broader social health processes. Agnew has published and presented widely, obtaining funding from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and from private foundations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served on editorial boards for multiple journals including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and has been the General Editor for the Cambridge University Press book series Advances in Personal Relationships. Agnew has received the Early Career Award from the Relationships Researchers Interest Group of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and is a Fellow of several associations including the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. He has held leadership positions such as President of the International Association for Relationship Research and Head of the Psychological Sciences at Purdue. Currently, he is recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 admission.
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