Dylan Selterman
Dylan Selterman is a social-personality psychologist and Associate Teaching Professor at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Selterman is a generalist whose research interests include an array of topics: interpersonal attraction, close relationships and sexuality, morals and ethics, political psychology, happiness and well-being, antisemitism, and patterns of dreaming. He has conducted research examining attitudes toward ethical norms and violations in close relationships (e.g., infidelity, consensual nonmonogamy) using Moral Foundations Theory. He is now exploring how ideological variables such as authoritarianism and social justice attitudes predict forms of bigotry. He is an Associate Editor at the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. He currently teaches these courses: Introductory Psychology, Positive Psychology, Happiness and Psychological Well-Being, Social Attraction and Relationship Development, and Political
Psychology.
Dr. Selterman promotes a campus culture that emphasizes viewpoint diversity, constructive disagreement, and open inquiry as core values. He is a co-chair for the Heterodox Academy campus community at JHU and serves as a faculty advisor for student groups aiming to cultivate pluralism and respectful dialogue across differences.
Selterman’s column for Psychology Today is called The Resistance Hypothesis and he co-hosted the podcast A Bit More Complicated (Apple,Spotify ) with Manuel Galvan. Selterman is passionate about learning, growth, curiosity, creativity, flourishing, human development, and working to create a better world with science.
Dr. Selterman’s TEDx talk is about what we can learn from our dreams. For his takes on the “commons dilemma” exercise that went viral, read these opinion pieces in The Washington Post, The Conversation, National Geographic, and The Baltimore Sun.
See other media coverage of his work on NPR,Vox,The Washington Post, OprahMag, Huffington Post, Baltimore Sun, ABC News, USA Today, Buzzfeed, NBC, and PsyPost.
See more at Dr. Selterman’s webpage here.
