Gordon Gallup, who recently passed away, was a true icon of behavioral science.

Gordon shed groundbreaking light on self-awareness, fight-or-flight response, mating, and much more.

The world truly lost one of the greats. Gordon Gallup was one-of-a-kind and he will be sorely missed.

It hurts me to write that my dear friend (and dear friend to many), Dr. Gordon Gallup, has passed away. Gordon’s influence on the field of evolutionary behavioral science has been both multi-faceted and profound. Gordon was gentle, kind, caring, brilliant, and wildly creative. He had a beautiful mind and soul. And he will be deeply missed by so many.

To say that Gordon Gallup, a world-renowned behavioral scientist at SUNY Albany for most of his career, had an enormous impact would be an understatement. At the proximate level, Gordon was known for his generosity; he would give the shirt off his back for those whom he cared about. He had a reputation as a family man—a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. And anyone fortunate to call him a friend knew him to be a friend in the most genuine sense. Despite an extraordinary workload, he would always pause to talk with you. He would always take time to help you advance your ideas; he would do what he could to help you with pretty much anything.

As a professor, he took a uniquely caring, other-oriented approach to his work. Unlike so many other elite researchers, he obviously and truly cared about teaching and about his students. He cared about his many graduate students over the years, a group of bright scholars who now hold many academic positions—these alumni light up upon hearing or speaking his name. Many alumni describe his influence as life-changing and like nothing I’ve ever seen. He actually cared. He stands as the greatest academic mentor I’ve........

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