David C. Funder is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He is a Personality and Social Psychologist who has conducted research on the accuracy of personality trait judgments, attributions, longitudinal personality assessment, and most recently how to assess psychologically important aspects of situations and how situations are perceived.
Early Life and Educational Background
Funder was born on February 15, 1953 in Long Beach, California. He earned his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975, where he worked with Jack Block, who in Funder’s words was “one of the most influential personality and developmental psychologists of his generation and of the 20th century.” Funder went on to earn his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979, where he worked with Daryl Bem. His graduate studies were supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation, and his dissertation examined the...
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Funder, D. C. (1987). Errors and mistakes: Evaluating the accuracy of social judgment. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 75–90.
Funder, D. C. (1991). Global traits: A neo-Allportian approach to personality. Psychological Science, 2, 31–39.
Funder, D. C. (1995). On the accuracy of personality judgment: A realistic approach. Psychological Review, 102, 652–670.
Funder, D. C. (1999). Personality judgment: A realistic approach to person perception. San Diego: Academic Press.
Funder, D. C. (2001). Personality. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 197–221.
Funder, D. C. (2012). Accurate personality judgment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 177–182.
Funder, D. C. (2016a). The personality puzzle (7th ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.
Funder, D. C. (2016b). Taking situations seriously: The situation construal model and the Riverside Situational Q-sort. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(3), 203–208.
Guillaume, E., Baranski, E., Todd, E., Bastian, B., Bronin, I., Ivanova, C., et al. (2016). The world at 7:00: Comparing the experience of situations across 20 countries. Journal of Personality, 84, 493–509.
Kenrick, D. T., & Funder, D. C. (1988). Profiting from controversy: Lessons from the person-situation debate. American Psychologist, 43, 23–34.
Krueger, J. I., & Funder, D. C. (2004). Towards a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition (target article). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 313–327.
Morse, P. J., Sauerberger, K. S., Todd, E., & Funder, D. (2015). Relationships among personality, situational construal and social outcomes. European Journal of Personality, 29, 97–106. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1987.
Rauthmann, J. F., Gallardo-Pujol, D., Guillaume, E. M., Todd, E., Nave, C. S., Sherman, R. A., et al. (2014). The Situational Eight DIAMONDS: A taxonomy of major dimensions of situation characteristics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 677–718. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037250.
Rauthmann, J. F., Sherman, R. A., Nave, C. S., & Funder, D. C. (2015). Personality-driven situation experience, contact, and construal: How people’s personality traits predict characteristics of their situations in daily life. Journal of Research in Personality, 55, 98–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2015.02.003.
Sherman, R. A., & Funder, D. C. (2009). Evaluating correlations in studies of personality and behavior: Beyond the number of significant findings to be expected by chance. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 1053–1063.
Sherman, R. A., Nave, C. S., & Funder, D. C. (2010). Situational similarity and personality predict behavioral consistency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 330–343.
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Letzring, T. (2020). Funder, David C.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1711
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