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William E. Schweinle

William E. Schweinle

Dr. William (Will) Schweinle received his doctorate in Experimental Psychology (Social & Quantitative) from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2002. He joined the BSU Faculty in 2007 after serving as the Director of Academic Evaluation and Assessment and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of South Dakota.








Research Interests
Dr. Schweinle’s research interest is primarily in empathic accuracy, which involves the accuracy with which people “read” each others’ minds, i.e., understand what one another is thinking and feeling. He applies empathic accuracy methods to the study of social cognition in close relationships and to male-female dyadic interaction. Dr. Schweinle is also involved in psychometric research in the development of new measures, including applying classical and item response methods to the development of an assessment instrument for information literacy.

Selected Publications

Schatz, S. and Schweinle, W. (Manuscript in preparation). Thurstone scaling of the Sexual Harassment Behaviors Inventory.

Schweinle, W. (Manuscript in preparation). Men’s rejection sensitivity, attachment style and wife directed aggression: A test of the Downey, Feldman and Ayduk (2000) model.

Duff-McCall, K and Schweinle, W. (Manuscript in preparation). Leadership and women. Chapter to appear in M. Paludi and C. Paludi (Eds.), The psychology of women at work:  Challenges and solutions for our female workforce: Vol. 2 Challenges, solutions and the identity juggle. Praeger.

Schweinle, W., Cofer, C. and Schatz, S. (under revision). Men’s sexual harassment of women and men’s biased inferences of women’s criticism and rejection. Sex Roles.

Flury, J., Ickes, W. and Schweinle, W. (in press). The Borderline Empathy Effect: Do High BPD Individuals Have Greater Empathic Ability?  Or Are They Just More Difficult to “Read”? Journal of Research in Personality.

Clements, K., Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Schweinle, W. and Ickes, W. (in press). Empathic accuracy of spouses in husband violent versus nonviolent relationships. Personal Relationships.

Schweinle, W. and Ickes, W. (2007). The role of men’s critical/rejecting overattribution bias, affect and attentional disengagement in marital aggression. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 26(2), 175-199.

Schweinle, W., Ickes, W. and Bernstein, I. (2002). Empathic inaccuracy in husband to wife aggression: The Overattribution Bias. Personal Relationships, 9, 141-158.

Bernstein, I., Schweinle, W. and Teng, G. (under contract, manuscript in preparation). Applied Multivariate Analysis (2nd ed.). Monterey, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, ISBN 0495000035.

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