Ryne A. Sherman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Experimental (Social)
Email: ryne.sherman@ttu.edu
Phone: (806) 834-0388
Office: 210
Education:
B.A. Monmouth College, 2006 (History & Psychology)
M.A. University of California, Riverside, 2008
(Personality/Social Psychology)
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 2011
(Personality/Social Psychology)
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Research Interests
My primary research examines the kinds of situations people encounter in their daily
lives and how they navigate those situations. My work in this area has included the
development of taxonomies and tools for measuring psychological characteristics of
situations, using these tools to examine the effects of personality and situations
on real-world behavior, and developing theoretical frameworks for understanding person-situation
transactions.
My secondary area of research examines the role of personality in career pursuits
and the workplace. Of particular interest are new approaches to personality assessment
including unobtrusive assessment via so-called "new talent signals" (e.g., voice prosody,
word use, affective responses to stimuli, etc.).
Finally, I am also interested in data analytics, including profile approaches to data
analysis and machine learning approaches to big data. My R package 'multicon' contains
many useful functions for profile-based analytics. Students in my laboratory often
have careers in quantitatively oriented positions.
Selected Publications
- Sherman, R. A., Rauthmann, J. F., Brown, N. A., Serfass, D. S., & Jones, A. B. (2015). The independent effects of personality and situations on real-time expressions of behavior and emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(5), 872-888. [link]
- Rauthmann, J. F., Sherman, R. A., & Funder, D. C. (2015). Principles of situation research: Towards a better understanding of psychological situations. Target Article: European Journal of Personality, 29, 363-381. [link]
- Sherman, R. A., & Serfass, D. G., (2015). The comprehensive approach to analyzing multivariate constructs. Journal of Research in Personality, 54, 40-50. [link]
- Sherman, R. A., Nave, C. S., & Funder, D. C. (2012). Properties of persons and situations related to overall and distinctive personality-behavior congruence. Journal of Research in Personality, 46, 87-101. [link]
- Sherman, R. A., Nave, C. S., & Funder, D. C. (2010). Situational similarity and personality predict behavioral consistency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(2), 330-343. [link]
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Akhtar, R., Winsborough, D., & Sherman, R. A. (in press). The datafication of talent: How technology is advancing the science of human potential at work. Current Opinion in the Behavioral Sciences.
Psychological Sciences
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