Curriculum Vitae

 

Educational History

Ph. D.         

Social and Personality Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, May 2004.

Thesis: "The Sounds of Social Life: Exploring Students' Daily Social Environments and Natural Conversations" [summary]

Diploma (M.A.)

Psychology, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany, July 1998

Thesis: "Kardiovaskulaere Reaktionen auf macht- und affiliationsthematische Filme: Die moderierende Rolle impliziter Motive" [Cardiovascular responses to motivational film clips: The moderating role of implicit motives].

 

Professional Positions

01/07 to present Associate Investigator, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona
01/07 to present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Arizona

08/04 to present

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona

01/01 to 08/03

Research Associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin (with Dr. James W. Pennebaker)

04/00 to 11/00

Junior Human Resource Consultant with S&F Personalpsychologie, Stuttgart, Germany; Field of Work: Industrial Psychology, Personnel Selection

01/00 to 06/00

Research Associate at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Muenchen, Germany (with Dr. Ulrich Geppert)

10/99 to 03/00

Research Associate at the Institute for Physiological Psychology II, University of Duesseldorf, Germany (with Dr. Clemens Kirschbaum)

09/98 to 07/99

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin (with Dr. James W. Pennebaker)

11/96 to 02/98

Research Assistant at the Department of Psychology, University of Erlangen, Germany (with Dr. Joachim C. Brunstein)

 

Publications

Hasler, B., Mehl, M. R., Bootzin, R., & Vazire, S. (in press). Preliminary evidence of diurnal rhythms in everyday behaviors associated with positive affect. Journal of Research in Personality. [pdf]

Ramirez-Esparza, N., Mehl, M. R., Alvarez Bermudez, J., & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press). Are Mexicans more or less sociable than Americans? Insights from a naturalistic observation study. Journal of Research in Personality. [pdf]

Vazire, S., & Mehl, M. R. (in press). Knowing me, knowing you: The relative accuracy and unique predictive validity of self- and other ratings of daily behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., & Gill, A. J. (in press). Automatic text analysis. In S. D. Gosling & J. A. Johnson (Eds.), Advanced methods for behavioral research on the Internet. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Beck, J. A. C., Putterman, M., Sbarra, D. A., & Mehl, M. R. (2008). Parenting coordinator roles, program goals, and services provided: Insights from the Pima County, Arizona Program. Journal of Child Custody, 5, 122-139.

Holleran, S. E., & Mehl, M. R. (2008). Let me read your mind: Personality judgments based on a person's natural stream of thought. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 747-754.[pdf]

Rohrbaugh, M. J., Mehl, M. R., Shoham, V., Reilly, E., & Ewy, G. A. (2008). Prognostic significance of spouse we talk in couples coping with heart failure. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 781-786. [pdf]

Wolf, M., Horn, A. B., Mehl, M. R., Haug, S., Pennebaker, J. W., & Kordy, H. (2008). Computergestuetzte quantitative Textanalyse: Aequivalenz und Robustheit der deutschen Version des Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count [Computerized quantitative text analysis: Equivalence and robustness of the German adaptation of Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count]. Diagnostica, 54, 85-98.[link]

Mairesse, F., Walker, M. A., Mehl, M. R., & Moore, R. K. (2007). Using linguistic cues for the automatic recognition of personality in conversation and text. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 30, 457-500. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R. (2007). Eavesdropping on health: A naturalistic observation approach for social-health research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 359-380. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., & Holleran, S. E. (2007). An empirical analysis of the obtrusiveness of and participants' compliance with the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR). European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 23, 248-257.[pdf]

Mehl, M. R., Vazire, S., Ramirez-Esparza, N., Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Are women really more talkative than men? Science, 317, 82. [link] [Science News] [NYT] [Washington Post] [Reuters] [NPR] [CNN] [ABC News] [BBC News] [Times] [Der Spiegel] [Die Zeit]

Guinn Sellers, J., Mehl, M. R., & Josephs, R. A. (2007). Hormones and personality: Testosterone as a marker of individual differences. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 126-138.[pdf]

Mehl, M. R. (2006). The lay assessment of subclinical depression in daily life. Psychological Assessment, 18, 340-345. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R. (2006). Quantitative text analysis. In M. Eid & E. Diener (Eds.), Handbook of multimethod measurement in psychology (pp.141-156). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R. (2006). Textanalyse [Text analysis]. In F. Peterman & M. Eid (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Psychologischen Diagnostik. [Handbook of psychologocial assessment] (pp. 196-202). Goettingen: Hogrefe. [pdf]

Lyons, E. J., Mehl, M. R., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2006). Pro-anorexics and recovering anorexics differ in their linguistic Internet self-presentation. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 60, 253-256.[pdf]

Mehl, M. R., Gosling, S. D., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2006). Personality in its natural habitat: Manifestations and implicit folk theories of personality in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 862-877. [pdf] [suppl]

Cohn, M. A., Mehl, M. R., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2004). Linguistic indicators of psychological change after September 11, 2001. Psychological Science, 15, 687-693. [pdf]

Horn, A. B., & Mehl, M. R. (2004). Expressives Schreiben als Coping-Technik: Ein Ueberblick ueber den Stand der Forschung [Expressive writing as a coping tool: A state of the art review]. Verhaltenstherapie [Behavior Therapy], 14, 274-283. [pdf]

Liehr, P., Mehl, M. R., Summers, L. C., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2004). Connecting with others in the midst of stressful upheaval on September 11, 2001. Applied Nursing Research, 17, 2-9. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2003). The social dynamics of a cultural upheaval: Social interactions surrounding September 11, 2001. Psychological Science, 14, 579-585. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2003). The sounds of social life: A psychometric analysis of students' daily social environments and natural conversations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 857-870. [pdf]

Pennebaker, J. W., Mehl, M. R., Niederhoffer, K. (2003). Psychological aspects of natural language use: Our words, our selves. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 547-577. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., Pennebaker, J. W., Crow, M. D., Dabbs, J., & Price, J. H. (2001). The Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR): A device for sampling naturalistic daily activities and conversations. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 33, 517-523. [pdf]

Mehl, M. R., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2000). Vom Wert des Schreibens und Redens ueber traumatische Erfahrungen: Ein narrativer Weg zu koerperlicher und seelischer Gesundheit [On the value of writing and talking about traumatic experiences: A narrative approach to physical and mental health]. In G. Perren-Klingler (Hrsg.), Erste Hilfe fuer die Seele: Debriefing und andere Interventionen [First aid for the soul: Debriefing and other interventions] (pp. 25-40). Bern: Paul Haupt Verlag. [pdf]

 

Grants

01/08 to 07/08

University of Arizona Social and Behavioral Science Research Institute Small-Grant; Title: "Coping in Inter-(action): A Naturalistic Observation Approach to Studying Couples Coping with Breast Cancer"; Role: PI; Amount: $1,800.

01/08 to 06/08

University of Arizona ADVANCE Research Fellowship for Department-centered Inquiry into Faculty and Equity Issues; Title: "The Situation of Female Faculty in Male-Dominant Academic Environments: A Social Interaction Analysis"; Role Co-PI (with Dr. Schmader), Amount: $4,740.

01/07 to 12/07

American Cancer Society/ Arizona Cancer Center Institutional Research Grant; Title: "Coping in Inter-(action): A Naturalistic Observation Approach to Studying Couples Coping with Breast Cancer"; Role: PI, Amount: $20,000

2006

Arizona Cancer Center; Seed Funds provided by the Deputy Director for Strategic Partnerships and Policy; Title: "Coping in Inter-(action): A Naturalistic Observation Approach to Studying Couples Coping with Breast Cancer"; Role: Principal Investigator; Amount: $5,000

2006

University of Arizona Social and Behavioral Science Research Institute Mini-Grant, Title: "Coping in Inter-(action): A Naturalistic Observation Approach to Studying Couples Coping with Breast Cancer"; Role: Principal Investigator; Amount: $747

05/05 to 05/07

University of Arizona Vice President of Research Faculty Small Grant; Title: "Pilot Test of a Pocket PC-Based Naturalistic Observation Method"; Role: PI; Amount: $6,640

2003

University of Texas at Austin Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellowship; Title: "Personality Expression in Students’ Everyday Social Lives"; Role: PI; Amount: $1,671

 

Honors and Awards

01/08 Listed in Dialogue, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's newsletter, as one of the ten most cited Assistant Professors in Social/Personality Psychology
04/07 The Honors College Outstanding Professor and Advisor of Psychology Award; University of Arizona
08/06 Young Investigator Travel Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Research Foundation]

09/03 to 05/04

University Continuing Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin

12/02         

Liberal Arts Graduate Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin 

01/02           

Student Travel Award of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

03/00   

Scholarship for Doctoral Studies of the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes' (German National Merit Foundation); declined

09/98 to 07/99    

Postgraduate Research Scholarship of the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes' (German National Merit Foundation) for studying abroad

12/96 to 07/98    

Undergraduate Scholarship of the 'Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes' (German National Merit Foundation)

 

Professional Memberships

American Psychological Association

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Association for Research in Personality

Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie
Society for Ambulatory Assessment (Vice President)

 

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