Relevant Publications

Additional Resources for Publications

Funder, D.C. (in press). Naïve and obvious questions. Perspectives on Psychological Science. [link]

Wagerman, S.A., & Funder, D.C. (In press). Situations. In P.J. Corr  and G. Matthews (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Personality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [link]

Fast, L.A., & Funder, D.C. (2008). Personality as manifest in word use: Correlations with self-report, acquaintance-report, and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 334-346. [link]

Funder, D.C. (2008). Persons, situations and person-situation interactions. In O.P. John, R. Robins & L. Pervin (Eds.), Handbook of Personality (3rd Ed.), pp. 568-580. New York: Guilford. [link]

Nave, C.S., Sherman, R.A., & Funder, D.C. (2008). Beyond self-report in the study of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being: Correlations with acquaintance reports, clinician judgments and directly observed social behavior. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 643-659. [link]

Fast, L.A., Reimer, H.M., & Funder, D.C. (2008). The social behavior and reputation of the attributionally complex. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 208-222. [link]

Fast, L.A., & Funder, D.C. (2008). Personality as manifest in word use: Correlations with self-report, acquaintance report, and behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 334-346. [link]

Baumeister, R.F., Vohs, K.D., & Funder, D.C. (2007). Psychology as the science of self-reports and finger movements: Whatever happened to actual behavior?. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 396-403. [link]

Funder, D.C. (2007). Beyond just-so stories towards a psychology of situations: Evolutionary accounts of individual differences require independent assessment of personality and situational variables. European Journal of Personality, 21, 599-601.

Wagerman, S.A., & Funder, D.C. (2007). Acquaintance reports of personality and academic achievement: A case for conscientiousness. Journal of Research in Personality,41, 221-229. [link]

Letzring, T.D., Wells, S.M., and Funder , D.C. (2006). Quantity and Quality of Available Information Affect the Realistic Accuracy of Personality Judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 111-123 [link]

Vazire, S., & Funder, D.C. (2006). Impulsivity and the self-defeating behavior of narcissists. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 154-165. [link]

Haselton, M.G., & Funder, D.C. (2006). The evolution of accuracy and bias in social judgment. In M. Schaller, J.A. Simpson & D.T. Kenrick (Eds.), Evolution and Social Psychology (pp. 15-38). New York and London: Psychology Pres. [Frontiers of Social Psychology series.]

Funder, D.C. (2006). Towards a resolution of the personality triad: Persons, situations and behaviors. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 21-34.[link]

Letzring, T.D., Block, J., & Funder, D.C. (2005). Ego-control and ego-resiliency: Generalization of self-report scales based on personality descriptions from acquaintances, clinicians, and the self. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 395-422. [link]

Complete table of correlates of UC and ER with the CAQ

Krueger, J.I., & Funder, D.C. (2004). Towards a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition (target article), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 313-327. [link]

Krueger, J.I., & Funder, D.C. (2004). Social psychology: A field in search of a center (authors' response). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 361-376

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. [link]

Schimmack, U., Oishi, S., Furr, R.M., & Funder, D.C. (2004). Personality and life satisfaction: A facet level analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1062-1075.

Eaton, L.G., & Funder, D.C. (2003). The creation and consequences of the social world: An interactional analysis of extraversion. European Journal of Personality, 17, 375-395.

For full tables of Q-sort correlates, click here.

Wagerman, S., Wright, L., & Funder, D.C. (2003). Personality reconsidered: A considered response. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 58, 309-310

Funder, D.C. (2003). Toward a social psychology of person judgments: Implications for person perception accuracy and self-knowledge. In J. P. Forgas, K.D. Williams & W. von Hippel (Eds.), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes. Sydney Symposium on Social Psychology (pp. 115-133). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Markey, P.M., Funder, D.C., & Ozer, D.J. (2003). Complementarity of interpersonal behaviors in dyadic interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1082-1090.

Funder, D.C. (2003). Why study religion? Psychological Inquiry, 13, 213-214.

Eaton, L.G., & Funder, D.C. (2002). Emotional experience in daily life: Valence, variability and rate of change. Emotion, 1, 413-421.

For supplemental table concerning rate of change variable, click here.

For supplemental information on Q-sort correlates of emotional experience, click here.

Blackman, M.C., & Funder, D.C. (2002). Effective interview practices for evaluating counterproductive traits. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 10, 109-116.

Funder,D.C. (2001). Person perception, accuracy of. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Vol. 16, pp. 11243-11246). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Funder, D.C. (2001). The realistic accuracy model and Brunswik's approach to social judgment. In K.R. Hammond & T.R. Stewart (Eds.), The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications (pp. 365-369). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Funder, D.C. (2001). Three trends in current research on person perception: Positivity, realism, and sophistication. In J. Hall and F. Bernieri (Eds.), Interpersonal sensitivity: Theory, measurement and applications (pp. 319-331). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Funder, D.C. (2001). Accuracy in personality judgment: Some research and theory concerning an obvious question. In B. Roberts & R. Hogan (Eds.), Personality psychology in the workplace (pp. 121-140). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Funder, D.C. (2001). The really, really fundamental attribution error. Psychological Inquiry, 12, 21-23.

Funder, D.C. (2001). Personality. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 197-221. Online version

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Funder, D.C. (2000). Gone with the wind: Individual differences in heuristics and biases undermine the implication of systematic irrationality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 673-674.

Funder, D.C., Furr, R.M., & Colvin, C.R. (2000). The Riverside Behavioral Q-sort: A tool for the description of social behavior. Journal of Personality 68, 451-489. [link]

For supplemental tables with additional data, click here.

For a complete list of the RBQ items (in English), click here.

Spain, J.S., Eaton, L.G., & Funder, D.C. (2000). Perspectives on personality: The relative accuracy of self vs. others for the prediction of behavior and emotion. Journal of Personality, 68, 837-867.

For supplemental tables with additional data, click here.

Creed, A.T., & Funder, D.C. (1999). Shining the light on private self-consciousness: A response to Silvia (1999). European Journal of Personality, 13, 539-542.

Creed, A.T., & Funder, D.C. (1998). The two faces of private self-consciousness: Self-report, peer-report, and behavioral correlates. European Journal of Personality, 12, 411-431.

Funder, D.C. (1998). How shall a person be known? A realistic approach to reuniting social and personality psychology. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50, 21. (Abstract)

Funder, D.C. (1998). On the pros and cons of delay of gratification. Psychological Inquiry, 9, 211-212.

Creed, A.T., & Funder, D.C. (1998). Social anxiety: From the inside and outside. Personality and Individual Differences, 25, 19-33.

Funder, D.C. (1998). Why does personality psychology exist? Psychological Inquiry, 9, 150-152.

Furr, R.M., & Funder, D.C. (1998). A multi-modal analysis of personal negativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1580-1591.

Blackman, M.C., & Funder, D.C. (1998). The effect of information on consensus and accuracy in personality judgment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 164-181.

Sneed, C.D., McCrae, R.R., & Funder, D.C. (1998). Lay conceptions of the five-factor model and its indicators. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 115-126.

Funder, D.C., & Colvin, C.R. (1997). Congruence of self and others' judgments of personality. In R. Hogan, J. Johnson & S. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of Personality Psychology (pp. 617-647). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.

Funder, D.C. (1996). Base rates, stereotypes, and judgmental accuracy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 22-23.

Colvin, C.R., Block, J., & Funder, D.C. (1996). Psychometric truths in the absence of psychological meaning: A reply to Zuckerman and Knee. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1252-1255.

Kolar, D.W., Funder, D.C., & Colvin, C.R. (1996). Comparing the accuracy of personality judgments by the self and knowledgeable others. Journal of Personality, 64, 311-337.

Blackman, M.C., & Funder, D.C. (1996). Self-esteem as viewed from the outside: A peer and gender perspective. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 11, 115-126.

Funder, D.C. (1995). Stereotypes, baserates, and the fundamental attribution mistake: A content-based approach to judgmental accuracy. In L. Jussim, Y-T. Lee, & C. McCauley (Eds.), Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences (pp. 141-156). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Fuhrman, R.W., & Funder, D.C. (1995). Convergence between self and peer in the response-time processing of trait-relevant information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 961-974.

Funder, D.C. (1995). On the accuracy of personality judgment: A realistic approach. Psychological Review, 102, 652-670. [link]

Funder, D.C., Kolar, D.W., & Blackman, M.C. (1995). Agreement among judges of personality: Interpersonal relations, similarity, and acquaintanceship. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 656-672.

Colvin, C.R., Block, J., & Funder, D.C. (1995). Overly-positive self evaluations and personality: Negative implications for mental health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68, 1152-1162.

Funder, D.C. (1994). Explaining traits. Psychological Inquiry, 5, 125-127.

Funder, D.C., & West, S.G. (1993). Consensus, self-other agreement, and accuracy in personality judgment: An introduction. Journal of Personality, 64, 457-476.

Funder, D.C. (1993). Judgments as data for personality and developmental psychology: Error vs. accuracy. In D. Funder, R. Parke, C. Tomlinson-Keasey & K. Widaman (Eds.), Studying lives through time: Approaches to personality and development (pp. 121-146). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Funder, D.C., & Sneed, C.D. (1993). Behavioral manifestations of personality: An ecological approach to judgmental accuracy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 479-490.

Funder, D.C. (1993). Judgments of personality and personality itself. In K.M. Craik, R.T. Hogan, & R.N. Wolfe (Eds.), Fifty years of personality psychology (pp. 207-214). New York: Plenum Publishing.

Funder, D.C. (1992). Psychology from the other side of the line: Editorial processes and publication trends at JPSP. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 493-497.

Colvin, C.R. & Funder, D.C. (1991). Predicting personality and behavior: A boundary on the acquaintanceship effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 884-894.

Funder, D.C., & Colvin, C.R. (1991). Explorations in behavioral consistency: Properties of persons, situations, and behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 773-794.

Funder, D.C. (1991). Global traits: A Neo-Allportian approach to personality. Psychological Science, 2, 31-39.

Funder, D.C. (1991). Judgments of personality: A new approach to the accuracy issue. In A.J. Stewart, J.M. Healy, Jr., & D.J. Ozer (Eds.), Perspectives in personality: Approaches to understanding lives (Vol. 3b, pp. 107-132). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Funder, D.C. (1990). Process vs. content in the study of judgmental accuracy. Psychological Inquiry, 1, 207-209.

Funder, D.C. (1989). Accuracy in personality judgment and the dancing bear. In D.M. Buss & N. Cantor (Eds.), Personality psychology: Recent trends and emerging directions (pp. 210-223). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Funder, D.C., & Colvin, C.R. (1988). Friends and strangers: Acquaintanceship, agreement, and the accuracy of personality judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 149-158.

Kenrick, D.T., & Funder, D.C. (1988). Profiting from controversy: Lessons from the person-situation debate. American Psychologist, 43, 23-34.

Funder, D.C., & Dobroth, K.M. (1987). Differences between traits: Properties associated with inter-judge agreement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 409-418.

Funder, D.C. (1987). Errors and mistakes: Evaluating the accuracy of social judgment. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 75-90.

Block, J., & Funder, D.C. (1986). Social roles and social perception: Individual differences in attribution and "error." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1200-1207.

Funder, D.C., & Harris, M.J. (1986). On the several facets of personality assessment: The case of social acuity. Journal of Personality, 54, 528-550.

Funder, D.C. (1983). The "consistency" controversy and the accuracy of personality judgments. Journal of Personality, 51, 346-359.

Funder, D.C., Block, J.H., & Block, J. (1983). Delay of gratification: Some longitudinal personality correlates. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 1198-1213.

Funder, D.C., & Van Ness, M.J. (1983). On the nature and accuracy of attributions that change over time. Journal of Personality, 51, 17-33.

Funder, D.C., & Ozer, D.J. (1983). Behavior as a function of the situation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 107-112.

Funder, D.C. (1982). On the accuracy of dispositional vs. situational attributions. Social Cognition, 1, 205-222.

Funder, D.C. (1982). On assessing social psychological theories through the study of individual differences: Template matching and forced compliance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 100-110.

Funder, D.C. (1980). On seeing ourselves as others see us: Self-other agreement and discrepancy in personality ratings. Journal of Personality, 48, 473-493.

Funder, D.C. (1980). The "trait" of ascribing traits: Individual differences in the tendency to trait ascription. Journal of Research in Personality, 14, 376-385.

Bem, D.J., & Funder, D.C. (1978). Predicting more of the people more of the time: Assessing the personality of situations. Psychological Review, 85, 485-501.