David C. Funder

David Charles Funder (born 1953 in Long Beach, California) is a personality psychologist and Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He took his bachelor's degree at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Jack Block, and his doctorate in social psychology at Stanford University in 1979, after which he taught at Harvey Mudd College, Harvard University and the University of Illinois before moving to Riverside in 1989. His research concerns how accurately people judge one another's personalities, and he identified four moderators of judgmental accuracy: a good target, a good trait, good information and a good judge. He created the Riverside Situational Q-Sort, a way of describing the psychological features of situations. He edited the Journal of Personality, served as president of the Association for Research in Personality and of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and wrote the widely used textbook The Personality Puzzle.