Dr. WilliamChaplin
A.B., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Marillac Hall, Room 107A
Voice: (718) 990-5541
Fax: (718) 990-2770
chaplinw@stjohns.edu
Biography
Bill received his A.B. degree in psychology from Stanford
University and his Ph.D from the University of Oregon. He
also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in
personality psychology. Before joining the faculty at St. Johns in
January, 2004, Bill was on the faculty at the University of
Illinois (joint appointment in personality and quantitative
psychology), Auburn University (quantitative psychology), and the
University of Alabama (quantitative psychology with a joint
appointment in applied statistics). He has also spent
sabbatical years at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia
and at New York University, and he was a visiting professor at
Phillips University in Marburg, Germany.
Bill is an elected member of the Society of Multivariate
Experimental Psychology (1988) and was selected to attend advanced
training workshops in longitudinal data analysis and the analysis
of fMRI data. He is also on the quantitative faculty
(psychometrics) of the NIH sponsored Summer Training
Instituite for Randomized Clinical Trials involving behavioral
interventions. Bill serves routinely on the editorial boards
of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, and the Journal of Research in
Personality. He was associate editor of the Journal of
Research in Personality from 1994-2000.
Bill has extensive consulting and collaborative data analytic
experience and has worked on projects at the Oregon Research
Institute, Georgetown Medical School, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine,
and Columbia University Medical School. His major areas of
expertise are longitudinal data analysis, confirmatory factor
analysis, mediational models, and psychometrics.
Research Interests
Dr. Chaplin has substantive interests in personality
psychology, but also has interests in issues involving
psychometrics and the analysis of data, particularly in applied
research. He is concerned with issues involving the
analysis of change and the analysis of latent variables. In
addition, he has worked on the appropriate analysis of data
generated by designs that combine qualitative experimental
variables with quantitative naturalistic ones.
Selected Publications
Bill has published a textbook on personality psychology and
over 50 scientific articles and reviews. His favorite
publication concerns relations between personality and
handshaking - Chaplin, W. F., Phillips, J. B., Brown, J.,
Clanton, N. R., & Stein. J. L. (2000). Handshaking,
gender, personality, and first impressions. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 110-117.
This paper was the weekly featured article on the website of the
American Psychological Association and its publication has resulted
in over 200 interviews on television, radio and print outlets.