Funder is the creator of the Riverside Situational Q-Sort (RSQ),wherein participants rank 90 items based on whether they are characteristic of a given situation. These items include "talking is permitted","situation is complex","a job needs to be done",and "situation may cause feelings of hostility." Three findings from trials using RSQ include that "situations a person experiences over time are more similar to each other than they are to the situations that someone else experiences and vice versa,which is part of the reason why people’s behavior is consistent over their lives;" experiences were described similarly across different cultures;and that items ranked negatively were more varied than those ranked positively,which co-author Sylvie Graf attributed to society's regulation of certain behaviors.[3][4][8] Funder said that the RSQ is applicable to a wide range of fields and industries,which he believes is both a strength and a weakness. He also points to "the fundamental problem of cultural comparison that anyone conducting cultural comparison lives in a culture themselves."[3]
His work with Joachim Krueger focused on the attempt to decipher the variables and factors that result in personality judgments. Funder later published a paper identifying four "moderator variables" to determine a judgment's accuracy:"good target," meaning that the person being judged is easy to read,such as due to familiarity or having animated facial expressions;"good trait",meaning that certain personality traits are "more visible" than others;"good information",which refers to the quantity and quality of the information on which a judgment is made;and "good judge",referring to the judger's skill at judging.[9][10][11]
Funder & West (Eds.) "Consensus, self-other agreement, and accuracy in personality judgment: An introduction" (1993). Journal of Personality, 64, 457–476. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1993.tb00778.x.
Funder, Parke, Tomlinson-Keasey, & Widaman (Eds.) Studying lives through time: Approaches to personality and development (1993). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/10127-000.
"On the accuracy of personality judgement: A realistic approach" (1995). Psychological Review, 102, 652–670. doi:10.1037/0033-295x.102.4.652.
Personality judgment: A realistic approach to person perception (1999). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN978-0122699306.
The Personality Puzzle (1997). 1st edition. New York: Norton.
Funder & Ozer. "Evaluating effect size in psychological research: Sense and nonsense" (2019). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2, 156–168. doi:10.1177/2515245919847202.
Personal life
Funder met his wife, Patricia Mayhew, while working at Harvey Mudd College in the early 1980s. They have two daughters.[5]
12"Simine Vazire: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology". American Psychologist. 70 (8): 712–714. 2015. doi:10.1037/a0039778.
123Letzring, Tera (2016). "Funder, David C.". In Zeigler-Hill, Virgil; Shackelford, Todd K. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer Reference. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1711-1.
12Sauerberger, Kyle S.; Funder, David C. (July 9, 2020). "18. The Riverside Situational Q-sort". In Rauthmann, John F.; Sherman, Ryne A.; Funder, David C. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Psychological Situations. pp.287–298. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190263348.013.18.
↑Funder, David C. (2007). The Personality Puzzle (4thed.). New York: Norton. pp.47–48.
↑Funder, David C. "Taking Situations Seriously: The Situation Construal Model and the Riverside Situational Q-Sort". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25 (3): 203–208. doi:10.1177/0963721416635552.
↑Funder, David C. (2012). "Accurate Personality Judgment". Current Directions in Psychological Science. 21 (3): 177–182. doi:10.1177/0963721412445309.
↑Krueger, Joachim I.; Funder, David (June 1, 2004). "Towards a balanced social psychology: Causes, consequences, and cures for the problem-seeking approach to social behavior and cognition". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27 (3): 313–327. doi:10.1017/S0140525X04000081.
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