<h2><em>Personality &amp; social psychologist</em></h2>

<p><strong>Research interests:</strong></p>

<ul>
<li><em>Existential psychology</em> (meaning/purpose in life, uncertainty, existential problems and attitudes)</li>
<li><em>Positive psychology</em> (psychological well-being, life satisfaction, affect)</li>
<li><em>Motivation</em> (goals, values, motives, intrinsic &amp; extrinsic motivation, attainment, support &amp; conflict)</li>
<li><em>Spirituality</em> (afterlife belief, religion, universalism)</li>
<li><em>Traits</em> (the "Big Five", spirituality, intelligence, needs for cognition or closure, conservatism)</li>
<li><em>Survey methods</em> (construction, validation, bias identification &amp; reduction)</li>
<li><p><strong><em>Statistics</em></strong></p>

<ol>
<li>Latent factor structure</li>
<li>Structural equation modeling</li>
<li>Effect size estimation</li>
<li>Longitudinal change</li>
<li>Causality</li>
<li>Nonparametric &amp; robust analysis</li>
<li>Resampling methods</li>
</ol></li>
<li><em>Programming</em> (R, function writing, simulation testing)</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Publications:</strong></p>

<ul>
<li>Me. (2013). <a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3t34c68w" rel="nofollow"><em>Personal goals, psychological well-being, and meaning in life</em></a>. University of California, Riverside: Psychology.</li>
<li>Steger, M. F., Pickering, N., Adams, E., Burnett, J., Shin, J. Y., Dik, B. J., &amp; Me. (2010). <a href="http://www.michaelfsteger.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Steger-et-al.-PSR-2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">The quest for meaning: Religious affiliation differences in the correlates of religious quest and search for meaning in life</a>. <em>Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 2</em>(4), 206-226.</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Posters and presentations</strong> (PowerPoints available on <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/NickStauner" rel="nofollow">my SlideShare page</a>)</p>

<ul>
<li>Me &amp; Ozer, D. J. (2012). <em>Matching goals to values: Correlations follow semantic similarities.</em> 92nd WPA, San Francisco.</li>
<li>Me. (2012). <em>Existential and psychological health as products of intrinsic goal attainment.</em> Presentation, April 19, UCR.</li>
<li>Me, Selvam, T., Cheong, R., &amp; Ozer. (2011). <em>Religious differences in the value systems of meaningful (and meaningless) lives.</em> 2nd ARP, Riverside.</li>
<li>Me &amp; Ozer. (2011). <em>Joint factors of spirituality and religiousness.</em> 91st WPA, Los Angeles.</li>
<li>Me &amp; Ozer. (2011). <em>Spiritual predictors of the search for meaning in life.</em> 12th SPSP, San Antonio.</li>
<li>Me. (2010). <em>Current research in existential psychology.</em> Presentation, November 4, UCR.</li>
<li>Me, Boudreaux, M. J., &amp; Ozer. (2010). <em>Factor structure of the Values Q-Set.</em> 118th APA, San Diego.</li>
<li>Me &amp; Ozer. (2010). <em>The motive content of meaningful (and meaningless) lives.</em> 15th EAPP, Brno, Czech Republic.</li>
<li>Me, Stimson, T. S., &amp; Boudreaux. (2010). <em>The curve of the quest for a more meaningful life.</em> 11th SPSP, Las Vegas.</li>
<li>Me. (2010). <em>The Values Q-Set.</em> Presentation, January 21, UCR.</li>
<li>Me, Stimson, Boudreaux, &amp; Ozer. (2009). <em>When do personality traits predict personal goals?</em> 1st ARP, Evanston.</li>
<li>Me. (2009). <em>The factor structure of personal goals.</em> Presentation, June 4, UCR.</li>
<li>Me, Stimson, &amp; Ozer. (2009). <em>The factor structure of personal goals in an undergraduate population.</em> 10th SPSP, Tampa.</li>
</ul>

Nick Stauner