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Research Areas
Current
Funded Projects
- The Educational Diversity Project: A
large-scale examination of links between race and other factors
and educational diversity in incoming students at 68 U.S.
law schools. Collaborators are Charles Daye (University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Walter Allen (University of
California, Los Angeles), and Linda Wightman (University
of North Carolina, Greensboro, retired).
- The Arthritis, Coping, and Emotions
Study: A multiwave project exploring how emotions and
coping after the onset and course of osteoarthritis in
residents of a mostly rural NC county. Collaborators are
Brenda DeVellis (PI), Robert DeVellis, and Joanne Jordan
(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).
Measurement
and Methods
- Item response model and structural equation
modeling applications in areas such as personality measurement,
substance abuse, and quality of life.
- The
Sage Handbook of Methods in Social Psychology (Sansone,
Morf, & Panter, 2004)
- Efficient designs for daily diary data
Program
Evaluation
- Statistical and methodological issues in program evaluations
of HIV/AIDS
multisite demonstration projects
- Evaluations of educational training programs,
especially for health care providers
Personality
- Methodological investigations of multitrait-multimethod
data, especially for personality designs using interbattery
factor analytic approaches, structural equation modeling,
multilevel models, analysis of open-ended responses
- Personality structure of free responses
- Psychometric evaluations of personality
instruments
Teaching
- Innovative approaches to
teaching quantitative psychology
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