Research Interests and Publications:

Dr. Srivastava's research concerns the self and social perception, emotions, and personality change. A common theme across these different areas is that all are concerned with person-environment interactions: the ways that people select, change, interpret, and respond to their social environments. Using a combination of laboratory paradigms, surveys, experience sampling, and longitudinal designs, Dr. Srivastava's lab is actively examining how emotions, interpersonal perception, and other factors mediate the ways that people affect and are affected by their social environments. One area of recent work has focused on how different regulatory processes, including emotion regulation and self-regulation, affect the ways that people interact with and form perceptions of others. A second area of work has focused on how self-views affect and are affected by social interactions, and how such relations may be moderated by personal and situational factors. A third area of research has focused on the development of personality across the lifespan, examining the psychological and social mechanisms that promote stability and change.

Selected Publications:

Srivastava, S., Guglielmo, S., & Beer, J. S. (in press).  Perceiving others' personalities: Examining the dimensionality, assumed similarity to the self, and stability of perceiver effects.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Srivastava, S., Tamir, M., McGonigal, K. M., John, O. P., & Gross, J. J. (2009).  The social costs of emotional suppression: A prospective study of the transition to college.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 883-897.

Anderson, C., Srivastava, S., Beer, J. S., Spataro, S. E., & Chatman, J. E. (2006). Knowing your place: Self-perceptions of status in social groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 1094-1110.

Srivastava, S., & Beer, J. S. (2005). How self-evaluations relate to being liked by others: Integrating sociometer and attachment perspectives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 966-977.

Srivastava, S., John, O. P., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2003). Development of personality in early and middle adulthood: Set like plaster or persistent change? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1041-1053.