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Simine Vazire

Associate Professor
Rosenzweig Chair in Personality Science
Department of Psychology
One Brookings Hall, Campus Box 1125
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO 63130
svazire@wustl (.edu)

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Education
  • Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2006
    • Program: Personality and Social Psychology
    • Dissertation: The Person from the Inside and Outside
  • B.A., Carleton College, Psychology, 2000
    • Concentration (Minor): Women's Studies
  • School for International Training - College Semester Abroad, Fall 1999
    • Samoa: Pacific Island Studies.
Selected Publications

Vazire, S., & Wilson, T. D. (Eds.) (2012). Handbook of Self-Knowledge. New York: Guilford. [link]

Carlson, E. N., Vazire, S., & Oltmanns, T. F. (in press). Self-other knowledge asymmetries in personality pathology. Journal of Personality. [pdf]

Bollich, K. L., Johannet, P. M., & Vazire, S. (2011). In search of our true selves: Feedback as a path to self-knowledge. Frontiers in Psychology. 2:312. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00312. [pdf]

Carlson, E. N., Vazire, S., & Furr, R. M. (2011). Meta-insight: Do people really know how others see them? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 831-846. [pdf]

Carlson, E. N., Vazire, S., & Oltmanns, T. F. (2011). You probably think this paper's about you: Narcissists' perceptions of their personality and reputation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 185-201. [pdf]

Vazire, S., & Carlson, E. N. (2011). Others sometimes know us better than we know ourselves. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 104-108. [pdf]

Vazire, S., & Carlson, E. N. (2010). Self-knowledge of personality: Do people know themselves? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4, 605-620. [pdf]

Vazire, S. (2010). Who knows what about a person? The Self-Other Knowledge Asymmetry (SOKA) model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 281-300. [pdf]

Carlson, E. N., Furr, R. M., & Vazire, S. (2010). Do we know the first impressions we make? Evidence for idiographic meta-accuracy and calibration of first impressions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 94-98. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., Vazire, S., Holleran, S. E., Clark C. S. (2010). Eavesdropping on happiness: Well-being is related to having less small talk and more substantive conversations. Psychological Science, 21, 539-541. [pdf]

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, 372-374. [pdf]

Holtzman, N. S., Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R. (2010). Sounds like a narcissist: Behavioral manifestations of narcissism in everyday life. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 478-484. [pdf]

Wood, D., Harms, P., & Vazire, S. (2010). Perceiver effects as projective tests: What your perceptions of others say about you. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 174-190. [pdf]

Carlson, E. N., Naumann, L. P., & Vazire, S. (in press). Getting to know a narcissist inside and out. In W. K. Campbell & J. D. Miller (Eds.), Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. [email me for pdf]

Vazire, S. (2010). Informant reports. In S. D. Gosling & J. A. Johnson (Eds.), Advanced Methods for Conducting Online Behavioral Research (pp. 167-178). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [email me for pdf]

Naumann, L. P., Vazire, S., Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2009). Personality judgments based on physical appearance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1661-1671. [pdf]

Vazire, S., Naumann, L. P., Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2009). Smiling reflects different affective states in men and women. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 403-405 [Comment] [pdf]

Vazire, S., & Doris, J. M. (2009). Personality and personal control. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 274-275. [pdf]

Slatcher, R. B. & Vazire, S. (2009). Effects of global and contextualized personality on relationship satisfaction. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 624-633. [pdf]

Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R. (2008). Knowing me, knowing you: The accuracy and unique predictive validity of self-ratings and other-ratings of daily behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1202-1216. [pdf]

Vazire, S., Naumann, L. P., Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2008). Portrait of a narcissist: Manifestations of narcissism in physical appearance. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1439-1447. [pdf]

Slatcher, R. B., Vazire, S., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2008). Am "I" more important than "we"? Linguistic patterns in couples' Instant Messages. Personal Relationships, 15, 407-424. [email me for pdf]

Hasler, B. P., Mehl, M. R., Bootzin, R. R., & Vazire, S. (2008). Preliminary evidence of diurnal rhythms in everyday behaviors associated with positive affect. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1537-1546. [pdf]

Gosling, S. D., Gaddis, S., & Vazire, S. (2008). First impressions from the environments that we create and inhabit. In J. Skowronski & N. Ambady (Eds.), First Impressions (pp. 334-356). New York: Guilford. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., Vazire, S., Ramirez-Esparza, N., Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Are women really more talkative than men? Science, 317, 82. [link]

Paulhus, D. L., & Vazire, S. (2007). The self-report method. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, and R. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology (pp. 224-239). New York: Guilford Press. [email me for pdf]

Vazire, S., Gosling, S. D., Dickey, A. S., & Schapiro, S. J. (2007). Measuring personality in non-human animals. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, and R. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Personality Psychology (pp. 190-206). New York: Guilford Press. [email me for pdf]

Vazire, S. (2007). Looking-glass self. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage publications. [pdf]

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

Vazire, S. (2006). Informant reports: A cheap, fast, and easy method for personality assessment. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 472-481. [pdf]

Vazire, S., & Gosling, S. D. (2004). e-Perceptions: Personality impressions based on personal websites. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 123-132.[pdf]

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, 93-104.[pdf]

Vazire, S., & Robins, R. W. (2004). Beyond the justification hypothesis: A broader theory of the evolution of self-consciousness  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60, 1271-1273. [Comment] [pdf]

Vazire, S.,& Gosling, S. D. (2003).  Bridging psychology and biology with animal research.  American Psychologist, 58, 407-408. [Comment] [pdf]

Gosling,S. D., & Vazire, S. (2002). Are we barking up the right tree? Evaluating a comparative approach to personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 607-614. [pdf]