The University of British Columbia

Core Area(s): Quantitative Methods, Social/Personality

Research Interests
Psychometrics and quantitative methodology; personality consistency, stability, coherence, and assessment.

Courses Taught
PSYC 218 Analysis of Behavioral Data, PSYC 546E Multiple Regression, PSYC 546B Analysis of Variance, Applied Structural Equation Modeling.

Representative Publications
Biesanz, J. C. (2010). The social accuracy model of interpersonal perception: Assessing individual differences in perceptive and expressive accuracy. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 45, 853- 885. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2010.519262

Human, L. J., & Biesanz, J. C. (2011). Target adjustment and self-other agreement: Utilizing trait observability to disentangle judgeability and self-knowledge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 202-216. doi: 10.1037/a0023782

Biesanz, J. C., Human, L. J., Paquin, A.-C., Chan, M., Parisotto, K. L., Sarracino, J., & Gillis, R. L. (2011). Do we know when our impressions of others are valid? Evidence for realistic accuracy awareness in first impressions of personality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 452-459. doi: 10.1177/1948550610397211

Biesanz, J. C., & Human, L. J. (2010). The cost of forming more accurate impressions: Accuracy- Motivated perceivers see the personality of others more distinctively but less normatively than perceivers without an explicit goal. Psychological Science, 21, 589–594. doi: 10.1177/0956797610364121

Biesanz, J. C., Falk, C., & Savalei, V. (2010). Assessing mediational models: Testing and interval estimation for indirect effects. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 45, 661-701. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2010.498292