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Lemay, Edward P.

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Early Life and Educational Background

Lemay was born on October 31, 1976 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He earned his B.S. in Psychology from Worcester State University in 1999, his M. S. degree in Psychology from Rutgers University in 2002 under the guidance of Richard Ashmore, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2008 under the guidance of Margaret Clark.

Professional Career

Lemay taught at the University of New Hampshire from 2008 to 2013. Since 2013, he has been in the Department of Psychology at University of Maryland, College Park. He has authored publications that have appeared in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. Lemay has won the Society for Experimental Social Psychology dissertation award (2008) and the International Association for Relationship Research dissertation award (2008). He has been designated as a “Rising Star” by the Association for...

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Cannon, K. T. (2012). Dysphoric reassurance seeking breeds contempt: Experimental evidence. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 31, 1023–1050.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Clark, M. S. (2008a). “Walking on eggshells”: How expressing relationship insecurities perpetuates them. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 420–441.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Clark, M. S. (2008b). “You’re just saying that”: Contingencies of self-worth, suspicion, and authenticity in the partner affirmation process. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1376–1382.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Clark, M. S. (2009). Self-esteem and communal responsiveness toward a flawed partner: The fair-weather care of low self-esteem individuals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 698–712.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Dobush, S. (2015). When do personality and emotion predict destructive behavior during relationship conflict? The role of perceived commitment asymmetry. Journal of Personality, 83, 523–534.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Dudley, K. L. (2009). Implications of reflected appraisals of interpersonal insecurity for suspicion and power. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1672–1686.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Dudley, K. L. (2011). Caution: Fragile! Regulating the security of chronically insecure relationship partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 681–702.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & O’Leary, K. (2012). Alleviating interpersonal suspicions of low self-esteem individuals: Negativity as honesty credentials. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 31, 251–288.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Spongberg, K. (2015). Perceiving and wanting to be valued by others: Implications for cognition, motivation, and behavior in romantic relationships. Journal of Personality, 83, 464–478.

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  • Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Wolf, N. R. (2016). Projection of romantic and sexual desire: A self-fulfilling prophecy in opposite-sex friendships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 864–878.

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  • Neal, A. M., & Lemay, E. P., Jr. (2014). How partners’ temptation leads to their heightened commitment: The interpersonal regulation of infidelity threats. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 31, 938–957.

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  • Overall, N. C., Girme, Y., Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Hammond, M. D. (2014). Attachment anxiety and reactions to relationship threat: The benefits and costs of inducing guilt in romantic partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 235–256.

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Edward Lemay Jr.

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Oakland University, Oakland, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

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Lemay, E. (2016). Lemay, Edward P.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_233-1

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