Contributor Biographies

Kiki Adams is a Computational Linguist and Data Scientist who specializes in psychology and natural language processing. Kiki is Head of Science at Receptiviti, where her team discovers and develops innovative ways to use language in modelling cognition, emotion, personality, and behavioral patterns to solve diverse business problems.

Audrey E. Aday, BA, is a graduate student in social/personality psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Jonathan M. Adler is an associate professor of psychology at Olin College of Engineering. He is also an associate editor of Journal of Personality, visiting associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief academic officer of the Health Story Collaborative. His research focuses on narrative identity development and its association with psychological well-being. Currently, his research examines embodied aspects of identity, including the life narratives of people with disabilities.

Sara G. Alves (Master's student, University of Porto) is a student of psychology, specializing in the area of social, organizational, and work psychology, in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. Her research interests include political psychology and group processes, as well as the development and elimination of prejudice. Currently she is working on a paper about social representations of sport by disabled athletes and is aiming to continue in postgraduate education.

Michael C. Ashton is a professor of psychology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of the textbook Individual Differences and Personality and co-author (with Kibeom Lee) of The H Factor of Personality.

Sarah E. Babcock is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario in the social-personality and developmental psychology area. Her research interests include individual differences, cognitive ability assessment, scale development, and student resilience. Her recent publications include C. A. Wilson, S. E. Babcock, & D. H., Saklofske (2019) "Sinking or swimming in an academic pool: A study of resiliency and student success in first-year undergraduates" (Journal of Higher Education), S. E. Babcock et al., (2018) "WISC-V Canadian norms: Relevance and use in the assessment of Canadian children" (Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science) and S. E. Babcock et al. (2017) "Test review: School motivation and learning strategies inventory (SMALSI): College form" (Canadian Journal of School Psychology). She previously worked for Pearson Clinical Assessment as project coordinator for Canadian adaptations of intelligence and behavioral assessment tools.

Anjana Balakrishnan (MSc in Psychology-Personality and Measurement, the University of Western Ontario, 2015) completed her PhD in Social Psychology with a specialization in Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of Western Ontario. Anjana is a member of the Canadian Psychological Association and a member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Her research interests lie in the study of student success, international students, immigration, prejudice, how personality and culture interact to exert influence in life domains, and intercultural and interethnic relations.

Sanna Balsari-Palsule has a PhD from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include examining the dynamics of personality in organizations, such as the benefits and costs of enacting extraversion in the workplace on well-being and performance outcomes.

Rachele Benjamin is a PhD student in social/personality psychology at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Culture and Self lab. Her research focuses on responses to threat and perceived meaninglessness, as well as the processing of uncertainty across cultures.

Aaron Bermond is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi. His current research interests lie in understanding the underlying factors that motivate media use and attachment.

Navjot Bhullar, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at the University of New England, Australia. Her research focuses on examining a range of psychological, emotional, and environmental factors influencing mental health and well-being.

Julia K. Boehm is an assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University. She received her PhD in psychology from the University of California, Riverside and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Boehm's research centers broadly on well-being and investigates how people can thrive both mentally and physically. Specifically, her research examines whether psychological characteristics such as optimism and life satisfaction are associated with improved cardiovascular health. She is also interested in the behavioral and biological processes that are relevant for cardiovascular health. She has authored an extensive review in Psychological Bulletin on these topics.

Ryan L. Boyd is an assistant professor of behavioral analytics at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Boyd's research spans the areas of language analysis, personality processes, motivation and emotion, and assessment methods. His recent work has primarily focused on using language analysis paired with machine learning and big data techniques to explore motivational processes in domains such as forensic psychology and social/personality psychology. He is the co-creator of several text analysis programs and paradigms, including the Meaning Extraction Helper and LIWC2015.

Jacek Buczny is an assistant professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests include studying implicit and explicit mechanisms of self-regulation, short- and long-term improvement in self-control, and the relationship between self-control and behavioral addictions (gambling, workaholism). Recent, noteworthy publication: M. Muraven, J. Buczny, and K. F. Law (2019). "Ego depletion: Theory and evidence." In R. M. Ryan (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation. (2nd ed., pp. 113-134). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Marie Buda (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2013) received her doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Cambridge. She was formally Bye-Fellow and college lecturer, as well as director of studies in psychological and behavioral sciences at Downing College, University of Cambridge. During her time there, she was shortlisted for the Student Union's Teaching Award. She is currently a behavioral science consultant at Innovia Technology.

Celine Cammarata received her BA in psychology and neuroscience from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, City University of New York, in 2012. She is now pursuing a PhD in Cornell University's Human Neuroscience Institute, where she investigates brain-body connections and their influence on cognition.

Jennifer E. Caplan is a doctoral candidate at Widener University's Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology. She is completing concentrations in psychoanalytic psychology as well as child, adolescent, and family therapy. Her clinical and research interests include early childhood dissociation and developmental trauma.

Bernardo J. Carducci, PhD, was professor emeritus of psychology and Director of the Shyness Research Institute (www.ius.edu/shyness) at Indiana University Southeast and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 1: General Psychology, 2: Teaching of Psychology, 8: Personality and Social Psychology, and 52: International Psychology. He is the author of The Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and Applications (3rd ed., 2015, Wiley) and Shyness: A Bold New Approach (2000, HarperCollins) and other books related to shyness translated into multiple foreign languages.

Jonathan M. Cheek is a professor of psychology at Wellesley College. His graduate study mentors were Arnold Buss, the University of Texas, Austin (MA), and Robert Hogan, Johns Hopkins University (PhD). He studies identity orientations, narcissism, shyness, and introversion, and is interested in the development and evaluation of personality scales.

Nathan N. Cheek is a PhD student in psychology at Princeton University. He studies how people understand the self and others, the consequences of having too much choice, stereotypes about poverty, and other topics at the intersection of social cognition and judgment and decision-making.

Douglas E. Colman received an MBA from Adams State University, and a PhD in experimental psychology from Idaho State University, and is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. His research interests include personality and interpersonal perception, especially when applied to industrial and organizational issues. He is the primary author of "Seeing and feeling your way to accurate personality judgments: The moderating role of perceiver empathic tendencies" (2017), Social Psychological and Personality Science and recently wrote a handbook chapter titled "Characteristics of the judge that are related to accuracy" (in press) for the Oxford Handbook of Accurate Personality...