Self and Social Behavior Lab
The Self and Social Behavior lab at Bradley University conducts research at the intersection of social and personality psychology. Broadly speaking, we are interested in how self-evaluative processes impact social behavior and how behavior impacts self-evaluation. Titles of recent presentations include:
Below are photos from our annual dinner at MPA and the conference.
The Self and Social Behavior lab at Bradley University conducts research at the intersection of social and personality psychology. Broadly speaking, we are interested in how self-evaluative processes impact social behavior and how behavior impacts self-evaluation. Titles of recent presentations include:
- Slamming the door-in-the-face of narcissists: Individual differences and the efficacy of a common compliance technique
- An experimental study of the motivation to pray: The effects of guilt and the role of trait narcissism.
- Imagine-other, but not imagine-self perspective taking reduces prejudice among narcissists
- Buffering the effects of ostracism with acceptance: The role of attachment styles
- Sociometer theory and self-presentation: Modesty among those high in perceived esteem.
- Narcissists and approach motivation: A replication and extension of Foster, Misra, and Reidy (2009)
Below are photos from our annual dinner at MPA and the conference.

MPA 2015 (left to right, back to front): Austin Simpson (alum), Mark Lehtman (alum), Andrew Gillen (alum), Damon McHugh, (next row) Weston Edwards, Robbie Hutton, Lauren Cain, Virginia Ibarra, Ryan Potempa, Ana Ballazhi, Dr. Hermann, Dallas Garrison, Kirby O'Brien, Tom Fox, (next row) Jackie Kirshenbaum, Amanda Nobis, Ally Neff, Liz Lundholm, Meghan Doherty, Ally Teutemacher, Courtney Siemsen