Neil Lewis, Jr. PhD

Dr. Neil A. Lewis, Jr. is a behavioral, intervention, and meta-scientist. He is an assistant professor of communication and social behavior at Cornell University with graduate faculty appointments in Communication and Psychology. He also holds a joint appointment in the Weill Cornell Medical College Division of General Internal Medicine as an assistant professor of communication research in medicine.

Lewis’s research examines how people’s social contexts and identities influence their motivation to pursue their goals and their success in goal pursuit efforts. He studies these processes most often in the domains of education, health, and environmental sustainability, in hopes that the knowledge generated from this research can provide useful insights for developing interventions to help people achieve their education, health, and sustainability-related goals.