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Simine Vazire

Simine Vazire (born 1980) is Professor of Psychology Ethics and Wellbeing[1] at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was formerly Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis and at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a social and personality psychologist who studies how self-perception and self-knowledge influence one's personality and behavior. She obtained a PhD in the social and personality psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Simine Vazire
Born1980
Grenoble, France
Occupation(s)Professor of Psychology Ethics and Wellbeing
Academic background
Alma materCarleton College
University of Texas at Austin
ThesisThe Person from the Inside and Outside (2006)
Doctoral advisorSamuel D. Gosling
Academic work
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
University of California, Davis

Vazire was recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology in 2015 for "original contributions to understanding the limits of self-knowledge and the constraints on our knowledge of others."[2] Vazire was recognized as a rising star by the Association for Psychological Science.[3] Her other awards include the SAGE Young Scholar Award (2011),[4] and the Outstanding Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity (2011).[5]

Vazire has been a leader in efforts to reform research practices in psychology.[6] She co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), which aims to encourage open, reproducible science; she has served as chair of the SIPS executive committee[7] and is a member of the senior editorial team of their journal Collabra: Psychology.[8] Vazire is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science (2016–2019)[9] and is editor of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.[10] With Timothy D. Wilson, Vazire co-edited the Handbook of Self-Knowledge,[11] which reviews the state of the science on how people perceive their own personality traits, behaviors, thoughts, emotions, and relationships.

Biography

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Born to an Iranian father, Vazire received her BA in psychology (minoring in women's studies) at Carleton College in 2000.[12] She continued her education in taking a PhD in social and personality psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked under the supervision of Samuel D. Gosling. Her dissertation titled The Person from the Inside and Outside[13] was named University of Texas Outstanding Dissertation in the Social Sciences in 2006.[citation needed]

Vazire joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007, where she was appointed Saul and Louise Rosenzweig Chair in Personality Science.[14] Vazire was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2013–2014). She subsequently moved to join the faculty of the Department of Psychology at University of California, Davis in 2014, where she directed the Personality and Self-Knowledge Lab.[15] Her research on self-knowledge and the development of character has been supported by grants from National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation.[16]

In January 2024 she became the editor-in-chief of the journal Psychological Science.

Research

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Simine Vazire is known for her research of self-knowledge in relation to personality and behavior, which examines topics such as how accurate people perceive themselves (identity) and how they are perceived by others (reputation) and self-other asymmetries in the accuracy of personality judgments.[17] Vazire's self-other knowledge asymmetry model aims to establish the conditions under which self-knowledge is more or less accurate than the evaluations of others. According to her model, self-knowledge should be more accurate for traits that are low in observability, such as neuroticism, and less accurate for traits that are high in evaluativeness, such as intellectual ability.[18]

Vazire and her colleagues have examined narcissism in relation to other personality traits, such as impulsivity[19][20] Several studies have relied on experience sampling methods, which Vazire learned as a student working with Matthias Mehl and James W. Pennebaker, the developers of the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) methodology for sampling naturalistic daily activities and conversations.[21] Her co-authored study with Nicholas Holtzman and Mehl, titled Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life, was named the best paper of 2011 by the Journal of Research in Personality.[22] Using EAR methodology, the researchers sampled naturalistic behavior of college students over four consecutive days and related their everyday behaviors to scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and to other established measures of personality traits and self-esteem. The researchers found relationships between narcissism, as assessed using the traditional measures, and observed behaviors. Individuals who scored higher on narcissism displayed more extraverted and less agreeable behavior and were more likely to engage in sexual language use than other college students.

Other collaborative studies have investigated whether users' profiles on online social networking sites provide accurate portrayals of their owners.[23][24] Vazire and her colleagues argue against the view that users of social networking sites present altered and idealized depictions of themselves online that are not accurate reflections of their true "offline" personalities.[25] Rather, they suggest that users tend to express themselves authentically in their efforts to communicate with others online. Users' social networking site profiles appear to be sufficient to allow others to gain an accurate sense of their personalities, especially for traits such as openness to experience.

Representative publications

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  • Back, M. D., Stopfer, J. M., Vazire, S., Gaddis, S., Schmukle, S. C., Egloff, B., & Gosling, S. D. (2010). Facebook profiles reflect actual personality, not self-idealization. Psychological Science, 21(3), 372–374.
  • Gosling, S. D., Vazire, S., Srivastava, S., & John, O. P. (2004). Should we trust web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about internet questionnaires. American Psychologist, 59(2), 93–104.
  • Vazire, S., & Gosling, S. D. (2004). e-Perceptions: Personality impressions based on personal websites. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87(1), 123–132.
  • Vazire, S. (2010). Who knows what about a person? The self–other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(2), 281–300.
  • Vazire, S., & Funder, D. C. (2006). Impulsivity and the self-defeating behavior of narcissists. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10(2), 154–165.

References

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  1. ^ PROFESSOR SIMINE VAZIRE Professor of Psychology Ethics, University of Melbourne, accessed 2021-11-09
  2. ^ "Simine Vazire: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology". American Psychologist. 70 (8): 712–714. 2015. doi:10.1037/a0039778. PMID 26618953.
  3. ^ "Simine Vazire". Association for Psychological Science. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  4. ^ "SAGE Young Scholars Awards". www.foundationpsp.org. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  5. ^ "Society of Self and Identity – Awards". www.issiweb.org. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  6. ^ How the reform-minded new editor of psychology's flagship journal will shake things up (Report). 2023-10-13. doi:10.1126/science.adl3638.
  7. ^ "Board – Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science". improvingpsych.org. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  8. ^ "Collabra: Psychology". www.collabra.org. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  9. ^ "Board of Directors". Association for Psychological Science. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  10. ^ "Social Psychological and Personality Science | SAGE Publications Inc". us.sagepub.com. 2015-10-28. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  11. ^ Handbook of self-knowledge. Vazire, Simine., Wilson, Timothy D. New York, NY: Guilford Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1462505111. OCLC 767562750.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ @siminevazire (27 January 2017). "My dad, Iranian, was studying in France during revolution. We immigrated to US. I'm a scientist & prof at UC Davis. #immigrantexcellence" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ^ Vazire, Simine (2006). The person from the inside and outside (Thesis).
  14. ^ "Simine Vazire – People in the Social Science Departments at UC Davis". mindbrain.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  15. ^ "Simine Vazire: Studying Self-Knowledge – Psychology". psychology.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  16. ^ "Deciphering moral behavior". Wake Forest News. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  17. ^ Solomon, Brittany C.; Vazire, Simine (2016). "Knowledge of identity and reputation: Do people have knowledge of others' perceptions?". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111 (3): 341–366. doi:10.1037/pspi0000061. PMID 27414235.
  18. ^ Vazire, S. (2010). Who knows what about a person? The self–other knowledge asymmetry (SOKA) model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(2), 281-300.
  19. ^ Vazire, Simine; Naumann, Laura P.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Gosling, Samuel D. (2008). "Portrait of a narcissist: Manifestations of narcissism in physical appearance". Journal of Research in Personality. 42 (6): 1439–1447. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.06.007.
  20. ^ Vazire, Simine; Funder, David C. (2016-12-21). "Impulsivity and the Self-Defeating Behavior of Narcissists". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 10 (2): 154–165. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.419.6963. doi:10.1207/s15327957pspr1002_4. PMID 16768652. S2CID 1924100.
  21. ^ Mehl, Matthias R.; Pennebaker, James W.; Crow, D. Michael; Dabbs, James; Price, John H. (2001-11-01). "The Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR): A device for sampling naturalistic daily activities and conversations". Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 33 (4): 517–523. doi:10.3758/BF03195410. ISSN 0743-3808. PMID 11816455.
  22. ^ Holtzman, Nicholas S.; Vazire, Simine; Mehl, Matthias R. (2010). "Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life". Journal of Research in Personality. 44 (4): 478–484. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.06.001. PMC 2918908. PMID 20711512.
  23. ^ Back, Mitja D.; Stopfer, Juliane M.; Vazire, Simine; Gaddis, Sam; Schmukle, Stefan C.; Egloff, Boris; Gosling, Samuel D. (2010-01-29). "Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization". Psychological Science. 21 (3): 372–374. doi:10.1177/0956797609360756. PMID 20424071. S2CID 425347.
  24. ^ Vazire, Simine; Gosling, Samuel D. (2004). "e-Perceptions: Personality Impressions Based on Personal Websites". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 87 (1): 123–132. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.87.1.123. PMID 15250797.
  25. ^ Manago, Adriana M.; Graham, Michael B.; Greenfield, Patricia M.; Salimkhan, Goldie (2008). "Self-presentation and gender on MySpace". Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 29 (6): 446–458. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2008.07.001. S2CID 43442440.
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