Research
Faculty Research Interests
- personality trait stability
- romantic relationships
- well-being
- discrimination and prejudice
- health disparities
- parent-child relationships
- social network analysis
- life satisfaction
- self-esteem
- aggression
- morality
- attachment orientation
- social development
- replication
Labs & Research Projects
Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research
Applying psychological science to increase our understanding of multicultural issues in both domestic and international contexts CMPR
Michigan School Information Project: Dr. Jennifer Watling Neal
Understanding how public school administrators find information about school programs, and how they use this information to decide which programs to use in their districts. MISPI
Future of Urban Networks: Dr. Zachary Neal
Bringing urban network researchers together to collaborate on research and discuss local, regional, and international issues. Future of Urban Networks
Child Emotions Lab: Dr. Emily Durbin
Studying children's emotional lives, including temperamental differences in emotional experience and how these are related to the family environment and parents' personalities and emotions. Child Emotions Lab
Cesario Social Cognition Lab: Dr. Joseph Cesario
Studying the cognitive, psychological, and behavioral responses related to information about social groups. Social Cognition Lab
Close Relationships Lab: Dr. William Chopik
Examining how close relationships–and the people in them–change over time, situations, and across the lifespan. Close Relationships Lab
Personality and Well-Being Lab: Dr. Richard Lucas
Investigating a number of questions about personality processes, the factors that are associated with high levels of subjective well-being, and the associations between the two Personality and Well-Being Lab
ACES Lab: Dr. Kaston Anderson-Carpenter
Advancing Community Empowerment and Social Justice ACES Lab
Morality and Intergroup Relations Lab: Dr. Carlos Navarrete
Studying how evolutionary pressure influence the emergence of the psychological mechanisms that produce within-group cooperation and between-group conflict MIR Lab
Recent Publications
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Anderson-Carpenter, K. D., Sauter, H. M., Luiggi-Hernández, J. G., & Haight, P. E. (2018). Associations between Perceived Homophobia, Community Connectedness, and Having a Primary Care Provider among Gay and Bisexual Men. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-8.
Cesario, J., Johnson, D. J., & Terrill, W. (2019). Is there evidence of racial disparity in police use of deadly force? Analyses of officer-involved fatal shootings in 2015–2016. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(5), 586-595.
Chopik, W. J., & Lucas, R. E. (2019). Actor, partner, and similarity effects of personality on global and experienced well-being. Journal of research in personality, 78, 249-261.
Chopik, W. J., & Weaver, J. R. (2019). Old dog, new tricks: Age differences in dog personality traits, associations with human personality traits, and links to important outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 79, 94-108.
Durbin, C. E. (2018). Applied Implications of Understanding the Natural Development of Effortful Control. Current directions in psychological science, 27(5), 386-390.
Kashy, D. A., & Donnellan, M. B. (2018). Conceptual and methodological issues in the analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal dyadic data. K., Deaux, M. Snyder,(Eds.), The Oxford handbook of personality and social psychology, 209-238.
Lucas, R. E., Freedman, V. A., & Carr, D. (2019). Measuring experiential well-being among older adults. The journal of positive psychology, 14(4), 538-547.
Neal, J. W., Mills, K. J., McAlindon, K., Neal, Z. P., & Lawlor, J. A. (2019). Multiple audiences for encouraging research use: Uncovering a typology of educators. Educational Administration Quarterly, 55(1), 154-181.
Neal, Z., Lawlor, J., Watling Neal, J., Mills, K., & McAlindon, K. (2019). Just Google it: measuring schools' use of research evidence with internet search results. Evidence & policy: a journal of research, debate and practice, 15(1), 103-123.