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Faculty & Staff

Frank J. Bernieri, Ph.D.

Associate Professor 
Department of Psychology
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5303
Phone: (541) 737-2311
Fax: (541) 737-3547
Email: frank.bernieri@oregonstate.edu

Areas of Interest

  • Social Psychology
  • Nonverbal Behavior
  • First Impression Formation and Accuracy
  • Face-to-face Interactions
  • Multi-channel Communication
  • Interpersonal Coordination/Synchrony
  • Empathy
  • Research Methodology
  • Data Analysis

Popular Media Reports Citing his Research

Brief Vita

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 1988
  • B.A., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, May 1983

Academic Positions and Appointments

  • 2003-present: Chair, Department Psychology, Oregon State University
  • 1994-2003: Associate Professor, University of Toledo
  • 1993-1994: Associate Professor, Oregon State University
  • 1988-1993: Assistant Professor, Oregon State University

Professional Affiliations

  • American Psychological Association
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • American Psychological Society, Charter Member
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Society for Experimental Social Psychology
  • Midwestern Psychological Association
  • International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships

Research in Progress

  • Bernieri, F. J., & Petty, K. (in progress). Do handshakes improve the accuracy of first impressions?

Selected Research Grants

  • 1998 National Science Foundation (NSF) Interpersonal Sensitivity Conference Grant ($10,000). With Judy Hall, Northeastern University.
  • 1997 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates ($4,000).
  • 1994 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates ($5000) (supplement to NYI Award)
  • 1992-1998 National Science Foundation (NSF) Young Investigator Award ($50,000).
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Research Support Grant ($8,009).
  • 1987-1988 Social Science Dissertation Research Fellowship ($10,000)
  • 1983-1984 McBer Institute Fellowship, Harvard University

Professional Service

  • 1988 - 1992; 2000 - present Editorial Board, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Publications: Book

  • Hall, J., & Bernieri, F. (Eds.). (2001). Interpersonal Sensitivity. Mahwah, NJ:LEA.

Publications: Articles

  • McLarney-Vesotski, A., Bernieri, F. J., & Rempala, D. M. (in press). Personality Perception: A developmental study. Journal of Research in Personality.
  • Rempala, D. M., & Bernieri, F. J. (2005). The consideration of rape: The effect of target information disparity on judgments of guilt. Submitted to Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
  • Aloni, M., & Bernieri, F. J. (2004). Is love blind? The effects of experience and infatuation on the perception of love. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 28,287-295.
  • Grahe, J.E., & Bernieri, F.J. (2002). Self-awareness of judgment policies of rapport. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1407-1418.
  • Dabbs, J.M., Bernieri, F.J., Strong, R.K., Campo, R., & Milun, R. (2001). Going on stage: Testosterone in greetings and meetings. Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 27-40.
  • Ambady, N., Bernieri, F.J., & Richeson, J.A. (2000). Towards a histology of social behavior: Judgmental accuracy from thin slices of the behavioral stream. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 32, 201-271.
  • Williams, K.D., Bernieri, F., Faulkner, S., Grahe, J.E, & Gada-Jain, N. (2000). The scarlet letter study: Five days of Social Ostracism. Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss, 5, 19-64.
  • Grahe, J.E., & Bernieri, F.J. (1999). The importance of nonverbal cues in judging rapport. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 23, 253-269.
  • Bernieri, F., Gillis, J.S., Davis, J.M., & Grahe, J.E. (1996). Dyad rapport and the accuracy of its judgment across situations: A lens model analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 110-129.
  • Gillis, J., Bernieri, F. & Wooten, E. (1995). The effects of stimulus medium and feedback on the judgment of rapport. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 63, 33-45.
  • Bernieri, F., & Gillis, J.S. (1995). Personality correlates of accuracy in a social perception task. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 81, 168-170.
  • Bernieri, F., & Gillis, J. S. (1995). The judgment of rapport: A cross-cultural comparison between Americans and Greeks. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 19, 115-130.
  • Bernieri, F., Zuckerman, M., Koestner, R., Rosenthal, R. (1994). Measuring person perception accuracy: Another look at self-other agreement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 367-378.
  • Bernieri, F., Davis, J., Rosenthal, R., & Knee, C. (1994). Interactional synchrony and rapport: Measuring synchrony in displays devoid of sound and facial affect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20, 303-311.
  • Koestner, R., Bernieri, F., & Zuckerman, M. (1994). Self-peer agreement as a function of two kinds of trait relevance: Personal and Social. Social Behavior and Personality, 22, 17-30.
  • Bernieri, F., & Gillis, J. (1993). Depressed mood and social perception: A cross-cultural replication. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77, 154.
  • Gillis, J., & Bernieri, F. (1993). Effects of depressed mood on social perception. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 76, 674.
  • Koestner, R., Bernieri, F., & Zuckerman, M. (1992). Self-Regulation and consistency between attitudes, traits and behaviors. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 52-59.
  • Babad, E., Bernieri, F., & Rosenthal, R. (1991). Students as judges of teachers' verbal and nonverbal behavior. American Educational Research Journal, 28, 211-234.
  • Bernieri, F. (1991). Interpersonal sensitivity in teaching interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 98-103.
  • Bernieri, F. (1991). Rigor is rigor: But rigor is not necessarily science. Theory & Psychology, 1, 369-373.
  • Blanck, P.D., Rosenthal, R., Hart, A.J. & Bernieri, F. (1990). The measure of the judge: An empirically-based framework for exploring trial judges' behavior. Iowa Law Review, 75, 1-32.
  • McCartney, K., Harris, M., & Bernieri, F. (1990). Growing up and growing apart: A developmental meta-analysis of twin studies. Psychological Bulletin, 107, 226 - 237.
  • Babad, E.Y., Bernieri, F., & Rosenthal, R. (1989) Nonverbal communication and leakage in the behavior of biased and unbiased teachers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 89-94.
  • Koestner, R., Bernieri, F., & Zuckerman, M. (1989). Trait-specific vs specific moderators of cross-situational consistency. Journal of Personality, 57, 1-16.
  • Babad, E.Y., Bernieri, F., & Rosenthal, R. (1989). When less information is more informative: Diagnosing teacher expectations from brief samples of Behavior. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 59, 281-295.
  • Zuckerman, M., Bernieri, F., Koestner, R., & Rosenthal, R. (1989). To Predict Some of the People Some of the Time: The Search for Moderators Continues. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 279-293.
  • Bernieri, F. (1988). Coordinated movement and rapport in teacher-student interactions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 24, 12 (2), 120-138.
  • Bernieri, F., Reznick, J.S., & Rosenthal, R. (1988). Synchrony, pseudo synchrony, and dissynchrony: Measuring the entrainment process in mother-infant interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54 (2), 243-253.
  • Babad, E.Y., Bernieri, F., & Rosenthal, R. (1987). Nonverbal and verbal behavior of preschool, remedial, and elementary school teachers. American Educational Research Journal, 24 (3), 405-416.
  • Koestner, R., Ryan, R.M., Bernieri, F., & Holt, K. (1984). The effects of controlling vs. informational limit-setting styles on children's intrinsic motivation and creativity. Journal of Personality, 52, 233-247.
  • Zuckerman, M., Miserandino, M., & Bernieri, F. (1983). Civil inattention exists - in elevators. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 9, 578-586.
  • Zuckerman, M., Mann, R.W., & Bernieri, F. (1982). Determinants of consensus estimates: Attribution, salience, and representativeness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 42, 831-852.

Publications: Book Chapters

  • Hall, J. A., Bernieri, F. J., & Carney, D. R. (in press). Nonverbal Behavior and interpersonal sensitivity. In J. A. Harrigan, R. Rosenthal, & K. R. Scherer (Eds.) Handbook of nonverbal behavior research methods in the affective sciences.
  • Bernieri, F. J. (2005). The Expression of Rapport. In V. Manusov (Ed.). Beyond words: A sourcebook of methods for measuring nonverbal cues. Mahwah, NJ: LEA
  • Bernieri, F. J. (2001). Toward a taxonomy of interpersonal sensitivity. In J. Hall & F.
  • Bernieri (Eds.), The theory and measurement of interpersonal sensitivity (pp. 3-20). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Bernieri, F.J., & Gillis, J.S. (2001). Judging rapport: Employing Brunswik's lens model to the study of interpersonal sensitivity. In J. Hall & F. Bernieri (Eds.), The theory and measurement of interpersonal sensitivity (pp. 67-88). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Gillis, J.S., & Bernieri, F. (2001). The perception and judgment of rapport. In K.R. Hammond and T.R. Stewart (Eds.), The Essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications (pp. 380-383). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Bernieri, F., Zuckerman, M., Koestner, R., Rosenthal, R. (1996). A Trait Rating Scale. Health and Psychosocial Instruments. Pittsburgh, PA: Behavioral Measurement Database Services.
  • Bernieri, F. (1993). Analysis of variance in the study of interpersonal expectations: Theory testing, interaction effects, and effect sizes. In P.D. Blanck (Ed.) Interpersonal Expectations: Theory, Research, and Application. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 379-399.
  • Bernieri, F., & Rosenthal, R. (1991). Coordinated movement in human interaction. In Feldman & Rime (Eds.) Fundamentals of nonverbal behavior (pp. 401-432). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Bernieri, F. (1988). Coordinated Movement in Human Interaction: Synchrony, Posture Similarity and Rapport. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.