Personality and Social Dynamics Lab

Selected publications

English, T., John, O. P., Srivastava, S., & Gross, J. J. (in press). Emotion regulation and peer-rated social functioning: A 4-year longitudinal study. Journal of Research in Personality.

Livingstone, K. M., & Srivastava, S. (2012). Up-regulating positive emotions in everyday life: Strategies, individual differences, and associations with positive affect and well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 504-516.

Lewis, K. L., Hodges, S. D., Laurent, S. M., Srivastava, S., & Biancarosa, G. (2012). Reading between the minds: The use of stereotypes in empathic accuracy. Psychological Science, 23, 1040-1046
[abstract] [pdf]

Srivastava, S. (2012). Other people as a source of self-knowledge. In S. Vazire and T. D. Wilson (Eds.), Handbook of Self-Knowledge (pp. 90-104). New York: Guilford.
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Malka, A., Lelkes, Y., Srivastava, S., Cohen, A. B., & Miller, D. T. (2012). The association of religiosity and political conservatism: The role of political engagement. Political Psychology, 33, 275-299.
[abstract] [pdf]

Srivastava, S. & Anderson, C. (2011). Accurate when it counts: Perceiving power and status in social groups. In J. L. Smith, W. Ickes, J. Hall, S. D. Hodges, & W. Gardner (Eds.), Managing interpersonal sensitivity: Knowing when—and when not—to understand others (pp. 41-58). Hauppage, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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Srivastava, S. (2010). The Five-Factor Model describes the structure of social perceptions. Psychological Inquiry, 21, 69-75.
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Srivastava, S., Guglielmo, S., & Beer, J. S. (2010). Perceiving others’ personalities: Examining the dimensionality, assumed similarity to the self, and stability of perceiver effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 520-534.
[abstract] [pdf]

Hirschberger, G., Marsh, P. A., Srivastava, S., Cowan, P. A., & Cowan, C. P. (2009). Attachment, marital satisfaction, and divorce in the first fifteen years of parenthood. Personal Relationships, 16, 401-420.
[abstract] [pdf]

Srivastava, S., & Angelo, K. (2009). Optimism, effects on relationships. In H. T. Reis and S. K. Sprecher (Eds.), Encyclopedia of human relationships. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Srivastava, S., Tamir, M., McGonigal, K. M., John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2009). The social costs of emotional suppression: A prospective study of the transition to college. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 883-897.
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Srivastava, S., Angelo, K. M., & Vallereux, S. R. (2008). Extraversion and positive affect: A day reconstruction study of person-environment transactions. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1613-1618.
[abstract] [pdf]

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Helson, R., & Srivastava, S. (2002). Creative and wise people: Similarities, differences, and how they develop. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1430-1440.
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Helson, R., & Srivastava, S. (2001). Three paths of adult development: Conservers, seekers, and achievers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 995-1010.
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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.