Julie Aitken Schermer
(formerly Harris)
Professor
PhD, Psychology, University of Western Ontario (1999)
Office: SSC 4429
Phone: 519-661-2111 x84699
Email: jharris@uwo.ca
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Julie Aitken Schermer (formerly Harris) is a jointly appointed Professor in the Department of Psychology (60%) and Management and Organizational Studies (40%) at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. She was an assistant professor at Brescia University College, London, Ontario for two years. She was then hired as an assistant professor in the Administrative and Commercial Studies Program (later the Department of Management and Organizational Studies) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Western Ontario where she was tenured in 2006 and promoted to full professor in 2014. She has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles, 10 book chapters, three editions of a Canadian Business Statistics textbook, the vocational interest measure, the Jackson Career Explorer, as well as over 115 conference presentations. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Career Assessment, Journal of Intelligence, Personality and Individual Differences, Europe’s Journal of Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Psychological Reports, Current Issues in Personality Psychology, and Twin Research and Human Genetics. She is a section editor-in-chief and coordinating editor-in-chief for Personality and Individual Differences, an associate editor for Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, an associate editor for the International Journal of Social Sciences, and is on the editorial boards for Current Psychology and Behavioral Sciences.
Research interests include personality, vocational interests, loneliness, humor styles, and recently why people drive loud vehicles. In her past research, she has shown loneliness has a genetic component and that people who engage in self-defeating humor score higher in self-report loneliness. She has also demonstrated that there is greater variability in personality for individuals who score higher in measured intelligence.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Personality and Individual Differences, Psychological Test Construction
RESEARCH INTERESTS/SPECIALIZATIONS:
Personality, Vocational Interests, Loneliness, Humor
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:
Schermer, J.A. (2023). A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism. Current Issues in Personality Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5114/cipp/162006
Schermer, J.A., Rogoza, R., Branković, M., Oviedo-Trespalacios, O., Volkodav, T., Ha, T.K., ... Krammer, G. (in press). Humor styles are related to loneliness across 15 countries. Europe’s Journal of Psychology.
Schermer, J.A., Furnham, A., & Treglown, L. (2022). Testing the differentiation of intelligence by neuroticism hypothesis. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 100073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crbeha.2022.100073
Schermer, J.A. & Goffin, R.D. (2021). The structure of an intelligence measure when higher and lower personality scorers are compared. Personality and Individual Differences, 110402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110402
Schermer, J.A. & Martin, N. G. (2019). A Behavior Genetic Analysis of Personality and Loneliness. Journal of Research in Personality, 78, 133-137.
Schermer, J. A., Martin, R. A., Martin, N. G., Lynskey, M. T., Trull, T. J., & Vernon, P. A. (2015). Humor styles and borderline personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 87(1), 158-161.
Schermer, J. A. (2012). The Jackson Career Explorer: Two further validity studies. Journal of Career Assessment, 20(4), 507-519.
Harris, J. A. (2004). Measured intelligence, achievement, openness to experience, and creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 36(4), 913-929.
Harris, J. A., Vernon, P. A., & Boomsma, D. I. (1998). The heritability of testosterone: A study of Dutch adolescent twins and their families. Behavior Genetics, 28(3), 165-171.
