![]() ![]() ![]() Our research on social perception aims to understand basic processes of everyday impression formation. SOCIAL PERCEPTION IN EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENTS Finally, I am interested in evaluating and developing new methods for collecting data online. ![]() More generally, my research draws on evolutionary as well as ecological principles: Evolutionary because Darwin's theory provides a framework for integrating research across species boundaries, and ecological because we cannot understand organisms independent of the environments in which they live. I use these findings as a comparative framework in which to contextualize findings from research on human personality. For example, I have studied individual differences in personality and social behaviors in several species as well as how personality traits are perceived and described in humans and other animals, such as hyenas, dogs, and cats. ![]() Second, in my cross-species work, I examine how research on animals can inform theories of personality and social psychology. First, in my work on social perception, I study fundamental issues in impression formation: How do people form impressions on the basis of how others behave, what they look like, and cues in the physical environment? In much of this work I focus on issues of consensus and accuracy for example, I compare the cues people use to make personality inferences to the cues that are actually valid. I am a personality/social psychologist with three main areas of interest. ![]()
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