Publications
Personality
Human, L. J., Biesanz, J C., Parisotto, K. L., & Dunn, E. W. (2011). Your best self helps reveal your true self: Positive self-presentation leads to more accurate personality impressions. Social Psychology and Personality Science. First published online on May 9, 2011. doi: 10.1177/ 1948550611407689
Human, L. J. & Biesanz, J. C. (2011). Target adjustment and self-other agreement: Utilizing trait observability to disentangle judgability and self-knowledge. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 202-216. doi: 10.1037/a0023782
Biesanz, J. C., Human, L. J., Paquin, A.-C., Chan, M., Parisotto, K. L., Sarracino, J. & Gillis, R. L. (2011). Do we know when our impressions of others are valid? Evidence for realistic accuracy awareness in first impressions of personality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 452-459. doi: 10.1177/1948550610397211
Lee-Flynn, S. C., Pomaki, G., DeLongis, A., Biesanz, J. C., & Puterman, E. (2011). Daily cognitive appraisals, daily affect, and long-term depressive symptoms: The role of self-esteem and self-concept clarity in the stress process. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 255 - 268. doi: 10.1177/0146167210394204
Human, L. J. & Biesanz, J. C. (2011). Through the looking glass clearly: Accuracy and assumed similarity in well-adjusted individuals' first impressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 349 - 364. doi: 10.1037/a0021850
Chan, M., Rogers, K., Parisotto, K. L. & Biesanz, J. C. (2010). Forming first impressions: The role of gender and normative accuracy in personality perception. Journal of Research in Personality. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.11.001
Lorenzo, G. L., Biesanz, J. C., & Human, L. J. (2010). What is beautiful is good and more accurately understood: Physical attractiveness and accuracy in first impressions of personality. Psychological Science, 21, 1777 - 1782.
Biesanz, J. C. (2010). The social accuracy model of interpersonal perception: Assessing individual differences in perceptive and expressive accuracy. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 45, 853-885. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2010.519262
Biesanz, J. C., & Human, L. J. (2010). The cost of forming more accurate impressions: Accuracy motivated perceivers see the personality of others more distinctively but less normatively. Psychological Science, 24, 589-594.
Mistry, R. S., & Biesanz, J. C., Chien, N., Howes, C., & Benner, A. D. (2008). Socioeconomic status, parental investments, and the cognitive and behavioral outcomes of low-income children from immigrant and native households. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 23, 193-212.
Biesanz, J. C., West, S. G., & Millevoi, A. (2007). What do you learn about someone over time? The relationship between length of acquaintance and consensus and self-other agreement in judgments of personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 119-135.
Dunn, E. W., Biesanz, J. C., Human, L. J., & Finn, S. (2007). Misunderstanding the affective consequences of everyday social interactions: The hidden benefits of putting one’s best face forward. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 990-1005.
Biesanz, J. C. & West, S. G. (2004). Towards understanding assessments of the Big Five: Multitrait-Multimethod analyses of convergent and discriminant validity across measurement occasion and type of observer. Journal of Personality, 72, 845-876.
Mistry, R. S., Biesanz, J. C., Taylor, L. C., Burchinal, M., & Cox, M. J. (2004). Family income and its relation to preschool children’s adjustment for families in the NICHD study of early child care. Developmental Psychology, 40, 727-745.
Hyde, J. S., Else-Quest, N. M., Goldsmith, H. H., & Biesanz, J. C. (2004). Children’s temperament and behavior problems predict their employed mothers’ work functioning. Child Development, 75, 580-594.
Biesanz, J. C., West, S. G., & Kwok, O.-M. (2003). Personality over time: Methodological approaches to the study of short-term and long-term development and change. Journal of Personality, 71, 905-941.
Biesanz, J. C., Neuberg, S. L., Smith, D. M., Asher, T., & Judice, T. N. (2001). When accuracy-motivated perceivers fail: Limited attentional resources and the reemerging self-fulfilling prophecy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 621-629.
Biesanz, J. C., & West, S. G. (2000). Personality coherence: Moderating self-other profile agreement and profile consensus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 425-437.
Quantitative
Biesanz, J. C., Falk, C. F., & Savalei, V. (2010). Assessing mediational models: Testing and interval estimation for indirect effects. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 45, 661-701. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2010.498292
Biesanz, J. C., Deeb-Sossa, N., Papadakis, A. A., Bollen, K. A., & Curran, P. J. (2004). The role of coding time in estimating and interpreting growth curve models. Psychological Methods, 9, 30-52.
West, S. G., Biesanz, J. C., & Kwok, O.-M. (2004). Within-Subject and longitudinal experiments: Design and analysis issues. In C. Sansone, C. C. Morf, & A. T. Panter (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of methods in social psychology (pp. 287-312). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Bollen, K. A. & Biesanz, J. C. (2002). A note on a two-stage least squares (2SLS) estimator for higher-order factor analyses. Sociological Methods and Research, 30, 568-579.
West, S. G., Biesanz, J. C., & Pitts, S. C. (2000). Causal inference and generalization in field settings: Experimental and quasi-experimental designs. In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology (pp. 40-84). New York: Cambridge University Press.