is a professor of psychology and the director of the Experimenal Psychology Ph.D. program at Idaho State University. She is a personality and social psychologist who conducts research that focuses on the accuracy of judging the personality of others.
Early Life and Educational Background
Letzring was born on April 30, 1977, in Portland, Oregon. From an early age, she wanted to be a teacher. A psychology class in high school sparked an interest, and a career path of teaching psychology became clear to her. Letzring graduated with a B.A. in psychology from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, in 1999, where she conducted an independent research project with Dr. Carolyn Weisz. After graduating from college, she spent a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, during which she worked with children with developmental disabilities at Respite Care of San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas. She then went on to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology from...
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Hall, J. A., Gunnery, S. D., Letzring, T. D., Carney, D. R., & Colvin, C. R. (in press). Accuracy of judging affect and accuracy of judging personality: How and when are they related? Journal of Personality, doi: 10.1111/jopy.12262.
Letzring, T. D. (2008). The good judge of personality: Characteristics, behaviors, and observer accuracy. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 914–932. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2007.12.003.
Letzring, T. D. (2010). The effects of judge and target gender and ethnicity similarity on the accuracy of personality judgments. Social Psychology, 41, 42–51. doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000007.
Letzring, T. D. (2015). Observer judgmental accuracy of personality: Benefits related to being a good (normative) judge of personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 54, 51–60. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2014.05.001.
Letzring, T. D., & Adamcik, L. (2015). Personality traits and affective states: Relationships with and without affect induction. Personality and Individual Differences, 75, 114–120. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2014.11.011.
Letzring, T. D., & Human, L. J. (2014). An examination of information quality as a moderator of accurate personality judgment. Journal of Personality, 82, 440–451. doi:10.1111/jopy.12075.
Letzring, T. D., & Noftle, E. E. (2010). Predicting relationship quality from self-verification of broad personality traits among romantic couples. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 353–362. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.03.008.
Letzring, T. D., Block, J., & Funder, D. C. (2005). Ego-control and ego-resiliency: Generalization of self-report scales based on personality descriptions from self, acquaintances, and clinicians. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 395–422. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2004.06.003.
Letzring, T. D., Wells, S. M., & Funder, D. C. (2006). Information quantity and quality affect the realistic accuracy of personality judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 111–123. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.91.1.111.
Letzring, T. D., Rone, C. R., & Colman, D. E. (in press). Investigating the effects of fear of negative evaluation, state anxiety, and dominance labels on person perception. The Journal of Social Psychology, doi: 10.1080/00224545.2016.1140117. (badges for Open Data and Open Materials).
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Letzring, T. (2016). Letzring, Tera. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_235-1
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