Fred Bryant
	Title:	Professor, Ph.D.
	Office:	n/a
	Phone:	773.508.3033
	E-mail:	fbryant@luc.edu

Personal Information

Ph.D., Northwestern University (1980)

Research Interests:

Within applied social psychology, my research interests include measuring subjective life quality, meta-analyzing research on social interventions, and evaluating test validity in personnel selection. I have been involved in several large-scale research projects investigating quality of life in various populations and synthesizing quasi-experimental studies on the impact of federally-mandated educational programs. I have also served as an expert witness in several court cases involving theory, methodology, and statistics in social and industrial/organizational psychology. Within basic social psychology, my research interests include perceived control, attribution theory, and hindsight bias. Within the domain of personality psychology, my research interests include Type A behavior, dimensions and processes underlying psychological well-being, and the conceptualization and measurement of cognition and emotion. For example, I currently am continuing research on the structure of automatic positive and negative cognition, and on the meaning and measurement of affect intensity. Within the statistical realm, I am using confirmatory factor analysis to develop measurement models and refine the conceptual frameworks underlying a variety of popular measurement instruments. 

Recent Publications:

Bryant, F. B., & Guilbault, R. L. (2002). "I knew it all along" eventually: The development of hindsight bias in reaction to the Clinton impeachment verdict. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 24, 27-41.

Donenberg, G. R., Wilson, H. W., Emerson, E., & Bryant, F. B. (2002). Holding the line with a watchful eye: Parental monitoring, parental permissiveness, and risky sexual behavior among adolescents in psychiatric care. AIDS Education and Prevention, 14, 138-157.

Bryant, F. B., & Smith, B. D. (2001). Refining the architecture of aggression: A measurement model for the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 138-167.

Bryant, F. B. (2000). Assessing the validity of measurement. In L. G. Grimm & P. R. Yarnold (Eds.), Reading and understanding more multivariate statistics (pp. 99-146). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.