​Professor McAndrew is well-known as a purveyor of psychological science to lay audiences. His blog at Psychology Today Magazine and his other op-ed articles have attracted over twenty-five million readers, and one of his essays even appeared in the playbill of a play performed at the Vaudeville Theatre on London's West End.

 

Frank is a frequent guest on podcasts and TV & Radio talk shows, and he has lectured widely throughout the United States and in countries ranging alphabetically from Denmark to Tanzania. His research has been profiled in media outlets such as Time, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, NPR, FOX News, the BBC, CNN, The Guardian, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It has also been featured by journalists such as Arianna Huffington and lampooned on television by comedians Jay Leno & Conan O'Brien. 

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On April 9, 2016, Frank's creepiness research was selected as the "trending topic of the day" by NBC's TODAY Show, and his research on gossip was similarly highlighted by this same program in 2007. 

 

McAndrew is an elected Fellow of:

The Association for Psychological Science

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology

The Society of Experimental Social Psychology

The Midwestern Psychological Association (Charter Fellow)