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Paul Barrett, Chief Research Scientist, Hogan Assessment Systems

Paul Barrett, Ph.D. is Chief Research Scientist at Hogan Assessment Systems. Dr. Barrett received his Ph.D. in personality psychometrics from the University of Exeter, UK. He was a research scientist at the University of London’s Institute of Psychiatry for many years, Chief Scientist at two of the UK’s High Security Forensic Psychiatric hospitals, and adjunct Professor of Psychometrics at the University of Auckland, NZ. His research interests include profile construction methodologies, prediction and classifier construction as well as developing next-generation psychological assessment tools and their associated analysis methodologies. He is an author of several psychological test instruments, a patent holder of a new psychological assessment technology (the graphical profiler) and an author of over 90 research articles and book chapters. He is an associate editor of the journal Personality and Individual Differences, a member of the editorial board of the journal Evolutionary Psychology, and a consulting editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment.

Tom Buchanan, Reader in Psychology, University of Westminster, UK

Tom Buchanan’s research interests are in the broad areas of personality and social psychology, and how they intersect with the Internet. Most of his work involves or examines the use of the Internet for psychological research, and in particular collection of psychological data (especially personality assessment and self-reports of cognitive function). Many of his ongoing projects are linked to self-disclosure and self-presentation on the Internet.

Matthias Burisch, Fachbereich Psychologie, Universitat Hamburg

Dr. Matthias Burisch studied psychology, philosophy and psychopathology at the University of Hamburg. He obtained his Dr.phil. from the University of Hamburg in 1976 and became a Professor of Psychology there in 2004. Dr. Burisch's publications include several journal articles on test construction, as well as Das Burnout-Syndrom (The burnout syndrome; 3rd edition 2006), generally considered the standard German language text on the subject. He continues to teach research methods including psychometrics. Burisch's 10-scale Hamburg Burnout Inventor, available online at www.swissburnout.ch, has scored more that 40,000 hits since early 2006. He is currently working on a comprehensive Inventory of Leadership Capabilities and a Leadership Style Inventory.
http://www.swissburnout.ch

David Buss, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

David M. Buss received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976, and his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Professor at Harvard University. In 1985, Buss moved to the University of Michigan to serve as Associate Professor and later as Full Professor. In 1996, Buss accepted a position at the University of Texas at Austin as Professor. David Buss received the American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 1988; the APA G. Stanley Hall Award in 1990; and the APA Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Award in 2001. The University of Texas awarded Buss the President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award in 2001. He was elected President of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in 2005, and served as President from 2005 – 2007. Buss’ primary research interests include human sexuality, mating strategies, conflict between the sexes, the psychology of status and reputation, homicide, jealousy, stalking, and sexual victimization.

William Chaplin, Professor of Psychology, St John's University

Dr. William F. Chaplin is a professor of quantitative psychology at St John's University with substantive interests in personality and individual differences. At St John’s he oversees and teaches graduate level training in quantitative methods, research methodology and psychometrics. He has been the Director of the Data Management and Statistics Core Greater New York Center of Excellence for Research in Autism at Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 2003. Dr. Chaplin also has extensive experience collaborating with investigators at Columbia University School of Medicine on behavioral risk factors and interventions for hypertension and coronary heart disease, particularly in minority and low resource populations. Dr. Chaplin was on the faculty of the NIH-OBSSR sponsored Summer Institute on Conducting Randomized Clinical Trials with Behavioral Interventions from 2003-2007. He is an elected member of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology and lists over 60 publications on his curriculum vita, his favorite of which concerns personality and handshaking.

Colin DeYoung, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Colin DeYoung is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Minnesota, in the Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavior Genetics Area. He completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University before moving to the University of Minnesota. In 2007, he won the J. S. Tanaka Dissertation Award for methodological and substantive contributions to the field of personality psychology. He is interested in the structure and sources of personality and is especially interested in the field of personality neuroscience, which attempts to identify the biological substrates of personality traits.
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cdeyoung/

Sam Gosling, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

Sam Gosling, Ph.D. is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He did his doctoral work at the University of California at Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on personality in spotted hyenas. In addition to his animal work he also does research on Internet-based methods of data collection and on how human personality is manifested in everyday contexts like bedrooms, offices, webpages and music preferences. Gosling’s environmental research is based on the idea that the spaces in which we live and work are rich with information about what we are like. In turn, we gain valuable lessons for both our personal and professional lives. His work has been widely covered in the media, including The New York Times, Psychology Today, NPR, and “Good Morning America”, and his research is featured in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. Gosling is the recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution. He lives in Austin, Texas. Gosling’s latest book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You will be released in June 2008.

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Originally from Russia, she received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from Stanford University. Lyubomirsky currently teaches courses in social psychology and positive psychology and serves as the Department of Psychology's graduate advisor. Her teaching and mentoring of students have been recognized with the Faculty of the Year and Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards. In 2002, Lyubomirsky was awarded a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize. Currently, she is an associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and (with Ken Sheldon) holds a 5-year million-dollar grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness.

John McArdle, Senior Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California

John J. (Jack) McArdle, Ph.D., is currently Senior Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. From 1984-2005 he was a faculty member at University of Virginia and was director of the Jefferson Psychometric Laboratory. He teaches classes in psychometrics, multivariate analysis, and structural equation modeling. McArdle is a visiting fellow at the Institute of Human Development at Univ. of California at Berkeley, an adjunct faculty member at the Department of Psychiatry at the Univ. of Hawaii. He is the lead statistical consultant of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), is the director of the National Growth and Change Study (NGCS) and leads the Advanced Training Institute on Longitudinal Modeling for the American Psychological Association. McArdle has won the Cattell Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research (1987), was elected President of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (1993-94), was elected President of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences (1996-1999), and was elected as the Secretary of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP, 2000-2002). McArdle has served on advisory boards for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the ACTIVE Collaborative Trials, the National Archive for Computerized Databases in Aging (NACDA), the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel on Institutional Review Boards. In 2002-2003 he was named Lansdowne Professor of the University of Victoria and Jacob Cohen Lecturer of Columbia University. In 2004 he was named a Co-PI of the HRS and he was recently awarded an NIH-MERIT grant from the National Institute on Aging. McArdle’s research has been focused on age-sensitive methods for psychological and educational measurement and longitudinal data analysis including publications in factor analysis, growth curve analysis, and dynamic modeling of adult cognitive abilities.

Robert McGrath, Professor of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Robert McGrath, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is also Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology and the M.S. Program in Clinical Psychopharmacology. He has authored over 150 publications and presentations, mainly in the areas of applied assessment and professional issues in psychology. He is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and has twice won the Society for Personality Assessment Martin Mayman Award for theoretical contributions to the study of personality assessment. Dr. McGrath is currently a candidate for President of the American Psychological Association.
www.bobmcgrath.org

Jim Miller, Principal, Miramontes Computing

Jim Miller is Principal of Miramontes Computing, a user interaction design consultancy. He has worked in the field of human-computer interaction for over 25 years, doing research and product development in such fields as intelligent interfaces, web-based application design, Internet community development, consumer Internet appliances, and usability evaluation methods. As a consultant, he works with large and small companies to identify customer-driven system requirements, prototype effective human interfaces to those systems, guide the prototype through the development process, and iteratively test and refine the final product. Jim has also served as the program manager for Intelligent Systems at Apple's Advanced Technology Group, Director of User Experience at Gateway's Internet Appliances Division, and the manager of the Human-Computer Interaction Department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Daniel Nettle, Reader in Psychology, Newcastle University

Daniel Nettle has broad interests in the evolution of human mind and behavior, and in personality variation in particular. HIs research has covered topics as diverse as marriage and mate choice, parental and grandparental behavior, the evolution of language, culture and art, and the psychology of well-being. He has most recently been working on how to think about the five-factor model of personality from a comparative and evolutionary perspective. He is an editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, and a consulting editor for Evolution and Human Behavior.

James Pennebaker, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin

James W. Pennebaker is Professor and Department Chair in the Psychology Department at the University of Texas at Austin where he received his Ph.D. in 1977. His research explores the links among emotion, language, and health. He finds that physician use, biological markers of stress and disease, and maladaptive behaviors can be reduced by simple writing and/or talking exercises. The act of putting emotional experiences into words can also influence a wide array of cognitive and social processes associated with improved health. More recently, Pennebaker and his students have been examining how people's natural use of words can more broadly reflect who they are. The words people use in daily conversation can be powerful predictors of people's health, personality, social situations, and the ways they relate to others. Author or editor of 9 books and over 200 articles, Pennebaker has received numerous research and teaching honors, including an honorary doctorate degree, the Pavlov award, and continuous funding from NSF, NIH, and other federal agencies for over 25 years.
http://www.psy.utexas.edu/Pennebaker

William Revelle, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University

William Revelle is a professor of psychology and the director of the personality program at Northwestern University. His interests range from the biological basis of personality to the relationship between personality, motivation, and cognitive performance. His current research is focused on the patterning over time and space of affect, behavior, cognition, and desires (the ABCDs of personality). Some of this research uses web-based assessment of personality and ability to examine the structure of personality. To study the dynamics of personality, he uses experienced-based sampling procedures to measure individual differences in affect and behavior over time. A believer in sharing the science of personality with the general public, he maintains the personality-project web site (http://personality-project.org). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Psychological Science. He is president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) as well as the Association for Research in Personality (ARP) and was a president of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He is a board member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Brent Roberts, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Brent Roberts is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, in the Social-Personality-Organizational Division. Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1994 in Personality Psychology and worked at the University of Tulsa until 1999 when he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois. He received the J. S. Tanaka Dissertation Award for methodological and substantive contributions to the field of personality psychology in 1995. He was awarded the prize for the most important paper published in the Journal of Research in Personality in 2000. Most recently he received the Diener mid-career award in Personality Psychology from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology. He has served as the Associate Editor for the Journal of Research in Personality, as a member-at-large for the Association for Research in Personality. He is currently the Executive Officer for the Association for Research in Personality, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Personality and Social Psychology Review, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.
http://www.psych.uiuc.edu/~broberts/index.html

David H. Rosen, Ph.D, Psychology

David H Rosen is a behavioral and personality psychology consultant based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from New York University in Social and Personality Psychology.

While at NYU, he studied the effects of media images on eating behavior and body image in college-age women. He also examined differences in how depressed people form impressions of themselves and of others, in comparison to how those impressions are formed by non-depressed people.

Prior to working at Signal Patterns, David was the primary psychologist behind www.personalDNA.com, a personality test completed by nearly 1,000,000 people.

Jim Russell, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, Boston College

James A. Russell received his PhD from UCLA in 1975 working in environmental psychology, specifically the emotional impact of large-scale environments. This interest led to research on emotion more generally, including verbal reports of emotion, facial expression of emotion, concepts of emotion, and children’s understanding of emotion. He spent 25 years at the University of British Columbia and then moved to Boston College where he is chair. His current work focuses on the idea that each emotional episode is constructed on the fly and thus less pre-formed than generally thought. A key ingredient of these episodes is a primitive feeling state called core affect.

Gerard Saucier, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

Gerard Saucier is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon, and Research Scientist at Oregon Research Institute. The author or co-author of over 40 published articles and book chapters, he has served as Associate Editor for two journals, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Research in Personality, and is also on the editorial board of two other major personality journals. He was 1999 recipient of the Cattell Award for outstanding early career contributions from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He is a 1991 PhD graduate of the University of Oregon. Earlier in his career he worked in counseling and clinical positions serving a variety of populations, but he has held academic appointments since 1991. He has written extensively about issues related to personality measurement, the structure of personality attributes, and the representation of these attributes in language, and also carries out research on the structure of beliefs related to worldview, ideology, and values.

Leonard Simms, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Leonard Simms, Ph.D., conducts research and publishes papers that are broadly relevant to measurement of and theory related to personality and psychopathology. More specifically, he studies applied and basic psychological assessment, dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, item response theory applications to personality measurement, and computerized adaptive testing. He is active in a number of professional societies and serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Assessment. Dr. Simms currently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He holds a BS in Psychology from California Polytechnic State University and MA and PhD degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Iowa.

Michelle Yik, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Michelle Yik received her Ph.D. in Social / Personality Psychology from the University of British Columbia, and currently is an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is also Director of the Chinese Emotion Laboratory. Her primary research concerns human affect. Specific ideas pursued include cultural similarities and differences in the description of affect, a defense of the bipolarity thesis that pleasure is the opposite of displeasure, a method relating two circumplex models in social-personality research, a new perspective on defining emotional stability, and the relativity of emotion judgments. A secondary area of her work is on the usefulness of personality in profiling different cultures, studying national stereotypes, predicting social behaviors including academic achievement and group performance, and understanding Internet response behaviors.
http://ihome.ust.hk/~emotion/