Gerard Saucier, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
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1227 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1227 USA
tel. 541-346-4927 fax 541-346-4911
email: gsaucier@uoregon.edu


Research Interests

I lead a research group -- a cultural and moral personology lab -- focusing on two research "superquestions" that each involve several subsidiary questions.
What's the best way to understand personality variation? 
* What is the most cross-culturally generalizable structure of personality attributes, the best (esp., valid) way to measure this structure, and  how does it relate to situations and cultural context?
How do people vary, in ways that are especially consequential, in worldview beliefs, values, and moral conceptions?
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What is the most cross-culturally generalizable structure in these domains, of personality attributes, the best (esp., valid) way to measure this structure, and  how does it relate to cultural context, to optimal human development, and to   patterns of psychosocial dysfunction (e.g., alienation, militant extremism, genocide)?
How are the personological variables described above, and the mindset they yield, fundamentally related to culture itself?

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