My research focuses on personality, person × situation interactions, and interpersonal processes. I am particularly interested in both the within-person processes that give rise to the individual’s unified and integrated sense of self and the between-person processes that give rise to the hierarchical dimensions of the social order. I use a range of methods for both naturalistic and laboratory-based personality assessment, including event-contingent recording, behavioural observation, round-robin rating, and narrative coding.

 

Selected Publications:

Fournier, M. A. (2019). Dimensions of human hierarchy as determinants of health and happiness. Current Opinion in Psychology. Available online 15 July 2019.

Fournier, M. A., & Moskowitz, D. S. (2018). Cross-situational consistency, variability, and the behavioral signature. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences (218-240). SAGE.

Fournier, M. A., Dong, M., Quitasol, M. N., Weststrate, N. M., & Di Domenico, S. I. (2018). The signs and significance of personality coherence in personal stories and strivings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1228-1241.

Fournier, M. A., Di Domenico, S. I., Weststrate, N. M., Quitasol, M. N., & Dong, M. (2015). Toward a unified science of personality coherence. Canadian Psychology, 56, 253-262.

Fournier, M. A., Moskowitz, D. S., & Zuroff, D. C. (2011). Origins and applications of the interpersonal circumplex. In L. M. Horowitz & S. Strack (Eds.), Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology: Theory, Research, Assessment, and Therapeutic Interventions (pp. 57-73). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Fournier, M. A. (2009). Adolescent hierarchy formation and the social competition theory of depression. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 9, 1144-1172.