Donn Byrne is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He previously held faculty positions at the California State University--San Francisco, the University of Texas, and Purdue University and the position of visiting professor at the University of Hawaii and Stanford University. At various times he served as the Chair of Albany's Psychology Department, the Head of the Social-Personality Program at Purdue and at Albany, and a member of Surgeon General Koop's Workshop on Pornography and Health. A past president of the Midwestern Psychological Association and of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, he is a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and is a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society.

Professor Byrne has published more than 140 articles in professional journals and 33 chapters in edited volumes. He is the author or co-author of 14 books including several leading textbooks. His current research focuses on such core topics as (1) the effect of adult attachment patterns on interpersonal relationships, (2) dispositional predictors of coercive sexual behavior, and (3) the evolutionary significance of responsiveness to similarity and dissimilarity.