Dr. C. Smith is a Social and Personality Psychologist who specializes in Interpersonal Relationships and Sexuality, Well-Being, the Psychology of Gender and Dark Personality.
Research Interests
- Investigating people’s daily and relational well-being, frequently via Self-Determination Theory.
- Examining the interpersonal aspects of personality and individual differences, including dark personality, attachment, and sociosexuality.
- Exploring the experiences of and downstream consequences of gender and gender ideology (e.g., sexism, feminism, precarious manhood).
- Intensive longitudinal designs, such as interval-contingent and event-contingent experience sampling, and dyadic data collection.
Biography
Dr. Smith graduated with a double major in psychology and government from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. She earned an MA in Experimental Psychology at the College of William & Mary, working with Dr. John Nezlek. She earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Houston, working in the lab of Dr. Linda Acitelli. Her dissertation examined sexual experiences via the lens of Self-Determination Theory using an event-contingent diary methodology and was published in 2007. The year after she graduated, she accepted a position at the University of Delaware as a visiting assistant professor. She came to the University of Mississippi in the fall of 2010 as an instructional assistant professor and was promoted to instructional associate professor in 2016. In 2018, Dr. Smith moved to a tenure-line position and was promoted with tenure to associate professor in 2022. She served as the inaugural Isom Center Fellow from 2017-2019. She received the UM Diversity Innovator Award (2020) and the Dr. Mike L. Edmonds New Scholar Award (2022). She has received funding for her work, including a grant awarded by ORAU to examine the workplace experiences of men and women in STEM and non-STEM jobs. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. She has been involved with the Society for Southeastern Social Psychologists, having served as program coordinator (2018) and site coordinator (2022) for their annual conference. She has also been involved with the AP Psychology Exam program since 2008.
Jordan, L. N., & Smith, C. V. (2022). Examining American Adult’s Mental Well and Ill-Being During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Using a Self-Determination Theory Perspective. International Journal of Public Health, 45.
Hardin, B. S., Smith, C. V., & Jordan, L. N. (2021). Is the COVID-19 pandemic even darker for some? Examining dark personality and affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Personality and Individual Differences, 171, 110504.
Smith, C. V., Øverup, C. S., & Webster, G. D. (2019). Sexy deeds done dark? Examining the relationship between dark personality traits and sexual motivation. Personality and Individual Differences, 146, 105-110.
Smith, C. V., Hadden, B. W., Webster, G. D., Jonason, P. K., Gesselman, A. N., & Crysel, L. C. (2014). Mutually attracted or repulsed? Actor–partner interdependence models of Dark Triad traits and relationship outcomes. Personality and Individual Differences, 67, 35-41.
Courses Taught
- PSY 321 Social Psychology
- PSY/GST 460 Psychology of Human Sexuality
- PSY/GST 565 Psychology of Gender
- PSY 713 Advanced Social Cognition
- Psy 202 Statistics for Behavioral Sciences
Education
B.A. Psychology, College of William and Mary (1999)
M.A. Psychology, College of William and Mary (2001)
Ph.D. Psychology, University of Houston (2004)
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OXFORD, Miss. – She's a busy businesswoman going to the country to sell the family farm. He's a pumpkin farmer with a heart of gold and a tragic backstory. Is this love?
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