Selected publications

Under review

Hirschberger, G., Marsh, P. A., Srivastava, S., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (2007). Married with Children: Attachment, Marital Satisfaction, and Divorce in the First Fifteen Years of Parenthood.

Srivastava, S., Tamir, M., McGonigal, K. M., John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2007). The Social Costs of Stable and Dynamic Use of Suppression to Regulate Emotion: A Prospective Study of the Transition to College.

Published and in press

Srivastava, S., Angelo, K. M., & Vallereux, S. R. (in press). Extraversion and positive affect: A day reconstruction study of person-environment transactions. Journal of Research in Personality.
[abstract] [pdf]

Srivastava, S., & Angelo, K. (in press). Optimism, effects on relationships. In H. T. Reis and S. K. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Tamir, M., John, O. P., Srivastava, S., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Implicit theories of emotion: Affective and social outcomes across a major life transition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 731-744.
[abstract] [pdf]

Anderson, C., Srivastava, S., Beer, J. S., Spataro, S. E., & Chatman, J. E. (2006). Knowing your place: Self-perceptions of status in social groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 1094-1110.
[abstract] [pdf]

Srivastava, S., McGonigal, K. M., Richards, J. M., Butler, E. A., & Gross, J. J. (2006). Optimism in close relationships: How seeing things in a positive light makes them so. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 143-153.
[abstract] [pdf]

Plaisant, O., Srivastava, S., Mendelsohn, G. A., Debray, Q., & John, O. P. (2005). Relations between the French version of the Big Five Inventory and the DSM classification in a French clinical sample of psychiatric disorders. Annales Médico Psychologiques, 163, 161-167.
[abstract] [pdf]

Srivastava, S., & Beer, J. S. (2005). How self-evaluations relate to being liked by others: Integrating sociometer and attachment perspectives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 966-977.
[abstract] [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 data. American Psychologist, 59, 93-104.
[abstract] [pdf]

Srivastava, S., John, O. P., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2003). Development of personality in early and middle adulthood: Set like plaster or persistent change? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1041-1053.
[abstract] [pdf] [press release] [coverage in the Washington Post, USA Today, and Scientific American Online]

Helson, R., & Srivastava, S. (2002). Creative and wise people: Similarities, differences, and how they develop. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1430-1440.
[abstract] [pdf]

Helson, R., & Srivastava, S. (2001). Three paths of adult development: Conservers, seekers, and achievers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 995-1010.
[abstract] [pdf]

John, O. P., & Srivastava, S. (1999). The Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (2nd ed., pp. 102-138). New York: Guilford.
[abstract] [pdf] [measuring the Big Five]

Rosenfeld, J. P., Reinhard, A. M., & Srivastava, S. (1997). The effects of alpha (10-Hz) and beta (22-Hz) ‘entrainment’ stimulation on the alpha and beta EEG bands: Individual differences are critical to prediction of effects. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 22, 3-20.