Matthias Mehl

Interim Associate Head

Interim Director, Graduate Studies

Professor, Social and Personality Psychology

Director, Naturalistic Observation of Social Interaction (NOSI) Laboratory

Psychology 460 (Office)
Psychology 407 (Lab)

Pronouns:

He, Him, His

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Research Interests:

Psychological implications of our everyday social lives for personality, wellbeing, and health
Ambulatory assessment and mobile sensing methods; psychological language analysis.

Updated: 11/26/24

Selected Publications:

Mehl, M. R., Eid, M., Wrzus, C., Harari, G. M., & Ebner-Priemer, U. (Eds.) (2024). Handbook of mobile sensing in psychology: Methods and applications. Guilford Press: New York, NY.
Mehl, M. R. (2017). The Electronically Activated Recorder or EAR: A method for the naturalistic observation of daily social behavior. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 184-190. DOI: 10.1177/09637214166806
Mehl, M. R., Raison, C. L., Pace, T. W. W., Arevalo, J. M. G., & Cole, S. W. (2017). Natural language indicators of differential gene regulation in the human immune system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 12554-12559. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707373114
Mehl, M. R. & Conner, T. S. (Eds.) (2012). Handbook of research methods for studying daily life. Guilford Press: New York, NY.
Mehl, M. R., Vazire, S., Holleran, S. E., & Clark, C. S. (2010). Eavesdropping on happiness: Well-being is related to having less small talk and more substantive conversations. Psychological Science, 21, 539–541.
Mehl, M. R., Vazire, S., Ramírez-Esparza, N., Slatcher, R. B., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2007). Are women really more talkative than men? Science, 317, 82.
Mehl, M. R., & Pennebaker, J. W. (2003). The sounds of social life: A psychometric analysis of students’ daily social environments and natural conversations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 857–870. 547–577.

Courses Taught:

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Updated: 11/26/24