B.A., College of William & Mary, 1992
	M.S., Villanova University, 1995
	Ph.D., University of California - Riverside, 2000

I have four general areas of interest, reflecting personality/social psychology and measurement/statistics:

1) One area of interest in personality psychology is understanding the connections between two important behavioral facts: 1) people differ from each other – for example, some people are generally more socially anxious than others, and 2) people differ from themselves as they move from one situation to another - for each of us, our social anxiety changes from situation to situation.

In some ways, these two facts seem to be contradictory – if people change from situation to situation, then to what degree should we discuss the “general” differences among people? This leads to question such as, what are the factors that change your social anxiety as you encounter different psychological environments? Are some people more reactive to situational forces than others? If so, why? How do personality “traits” relate to day-to-day behavior? Can we conceptualize personality in a way that integrates the two behavioral facts?

Relevant Student Research

	Tucker, J. N., & Furr, R. M. (October, 2007). Interpersonal values and self-presentational strategies in everyday life situations. Poster presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists.
	Catalino, L. I., & Furr, R. M. (January, 2007). An Exploration of Trait-State Interactions with the Need for Relatedness.  Paper presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN
	Catalino, L. I., Furr, R. M., & Manna, S. J. (January, 2006). A Social Cognitive Approach to the Self-Presentation Theory of Social Anxiety. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA.
	Furr, R. M., Stridh, P. E., & Swanger, R. L. (January, 2005). A social cognitive perspective on social anxiety: Situations influence intra-individual associations among social anxiety person variables. Paper presented at 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
	Furr, R. M., & Bellis, F. A. (January, 2004). Situational and interactive effects in the self-presentation theory of social anxiety. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

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2) A second area of interest is how people perceive and understand each others’ personalities. When we interact with other people, how is our behavior interpreted by others? In what way do our social goals and motivations affect those interpretations? Do we know how we are perceived by others? Are some of us particularly effective at creating the impressions that we want to create? If so, who and how? How well do people understand their own behavior and the behavior of others?

Relevant Student Research:

	Carlson, E. N., & Furr, R. M. (Conditionally accepted). Evidence of differential meta-accuracy: People understand the different impressions they make. Psychological Science.
	Carlson, E. N., & Furr, R. M. (February, 2008). Measuring meta-accuracy for the big five: A trait-centered and profile-based approach. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Personality pre-conference of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM. (Awarded best poster prize by ARP)
	Gauthier, K. & Furr, R. M. (January, 2007). Lay-Persons’ Perceptions of Cross-Situational Behavioral Variability: Accuracy, Interpersonal Effects, and Instrumental Effects.  Paper presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
	Nave, C.S., & Furr, R. M. (January, 2007). Examining personality judgments from a self-presentational perspective.  Paper presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
	Reimer, H. M., & Furr, R. M. (January, 2005). Lay prediction of behavior: Information, judge, and behavior effects. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.

3) More recently, I’ve become interested in extending these basic questions to personality pathology. I am not a clinical psychologist, but from a personality perspective I’m interested in question such as…. how are people with pathological traits seen by their friends and acquaintances? Do some pathological traits have greater social impact than others? Can personality pathology be integrated with an understanding of “normal” personality?

Relevant Student Research:

	Gauthier, K. J., Furr, R. M., Mathias, C. W., Richard, D. M., & Dougherty, D. M. (2009). Differentiating impulsive and premeditated aggression: Self and informant perspectives among adolescents with personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 23, 74-82.
	Carlson, E. N., & Furr, R. M. (February, 2008). Self-presentational goals and performance: The toxic effects of personality pathology.  Poster to be presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM
	Gauthier, K., Furr, R. M., Mathias, C. W., Dougherty, D. M., & Marsh, D. M.  (January, 2007). NEO Personality Ratings in Adolescents with Conduct Disorder: Comparisons between Those who Display Impulsive versus Premeditated Aggression. Paper presented at the Association for Research in Personality pre-conference of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN

 4) Another area of interest is more purely in psychometrics and statistics. All quantitative psychological research depends crucially on measurement and data analysis. I am interested in the process of constructing and validating personality inventories. In addition, I am interested in the development and evaluation of statistical procedures, particularly those used with repeated-measures data.

Relevant Student Research:

	Carlson, E. & Furr, R. M. (January, 2007). Evaluating a trait profile approach to personality pathology.Paper presented at the Association for Research in Personality pre-conference of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.
	Nave, C. S., & Furr, R. M. (January, 2006). Development and validation of a social motivation/social efficacy scale. Paper presented at the 7 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA
	Schmidt, E. A., Furr, R. M., & Huelsman, T. J. (January, 2004). Differential item functioning of positive and negative wording in personality and social assessment: An item response theory analysis Paper presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

 Representative Publications:

	Furr, R. M. (In press). Personality psychology as a truly behavioral science. European Journal of Personality.
	Furr, R. M. (In press). Profile analysis in person-situation integration. Journal of Research in Personality
	Carlson, E. N., & Furr, R. M. (Conditionally accepted). Evidence of differential meta-accuracy: People understand the different impressions they make. Psychological Science.
	Gauthier, K. J., Furr, R. M., Mathias, C. W., Richard, D. M., & Dougherty, D. M. (2009). Differentiating impulsive and premeditated aggression: Self and informant perspectives among adolescents with personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 23, 74-82
	Furr, R. M. (2008). A framework for profile similarity: Integrating similarity, normativeness, and distinctiveness. Journal of Personality, 76, 1267-1316.
	Furr, R. M. (2008). A contrast analysis approach to change. Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 14, 335-362.
	Furr, R. M., & Bacharach, V. R. (2008). Psychometrics: An Introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
	Furr, R. M., Dougherty, D. M., Marsh, D. M., & Mathias, C. W. (2007). Personality judgment and personality pathology: Self-other agreement in adolescents with conduct disorder. Journal of Personality, 75, 629-662.
	Furr, R. M. (2005). Differentiating happiness and self-esteem. Individual Differences Research, 3, 105-127.
	Furr, R. M., & Funder, D. C. (2004). Situational similarity and behavioral consistency: Subjective, objective, variable-centered, and person-centered approaches. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 421-447.
	Furr, R. M., & Rosenthal, R. (2003). Repeated-measures contrasts for “Multiple-pattern” hypotheses. Psychological Methods, 8, 275-293.
	Furr, R. M., & Funder, D. C. (1998). A multi-modal analysis of personal negativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1580-1591.

Courses Taught:

	Introductory Psychology
	Personality Psychology
	Methods of Psychological Research
	Psychological Testing
	Univariate Statistics (Graduate)
	Multivariate Statistics (Graduate)