Cindy Hazan

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Cindy Hazan is an American psychologist who studies how adults form romantic attachments. With Phillip Shaver, she showed that adult relationships resemble a child’s attachment to a caregiver. She teaches at Cornell University, where she holds a distinguished professorship for undergraduate education. Hazan earned a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Denver. Her work uses attachment theory, which originally studied infants. In 1987, she and Shaver published "Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process," expanding attachment theory to adults and making the article highly cited. In 2012, Hazan and Shaver received the Scientific Impact Award for their work. She created the "Human Bonding" course at Cornell, which she has taught for over 25 years. Lisa Diamond has said Hazan’s course inspired her own interest in intimate relationships.