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	simine vazire, ph.d.	washington university in st. louis	department of psychology

members: simine vazire, ph.d. erika carlson, m.a. research: our lab examines the accuracy of people's perceptions of their own personality. examples of research questions that occupy our thoughts:    how well do people know themselves?    do others know things about us that we don't know about ourselves?    is self-knowledge good?    how can self-knowledge be improved?    do people know what makes them happy?    can people change their personality?    how do narcissists see themselves? how are they seen by others? collaborators:         daniel ames         david funder         sam gosling         oliver john         john jost         zlatan krizan         matthias mehl         laura naumann         del paulhus         jamie pennebaker         jason rentfrow         rick robins         steve schapiro         rich slatcher         sanjay srivastava

resources for researchers interested in collecting informant reports

"it is reality that 'owns' the truth about personality, not any single operationalization."   -robert mccrae, quoted in hofstee (1994)

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