Early Life and Education Background
In 1970, Mike was born to Dr. Richard M. Furr, Sr. and Margaret Lee Furr. He was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, where he attended Page High School with his brother David (a Tony-nominated actor).
He was introduced to personality assessment in childhood while “helping” his father (an organizational psychologist) score personality tests such as the MBTI and the FIRO-B. Skepticism of personality assessment also arose at this time, as he took those same tests and magically switched from an I to an E and back to an I on the MBTI from one day to another.
He earned a BA in Psychology at the College of William and Mary in 1992. Mike was not Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, magna cum laude, cum laude, or any other kind of laude. Indeed, he was not particularly goal-directed or forward-thinking at W&M. As graduation approached, this laissez-faire attitude became, regrettably, unsustainable. Belatedly moved to action, Mike sought advice from Dr....
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Collier-Spruel, L. A., Hawkins, A. A., Jayawickreme, E., Fleeson, W., & Furr, R. M. (2018). Relativism or Tolerance? Defining, Assessing, Connecting, and Distinguishing Two Moral Personality Features With Prominent Roles in Modern Societies. Unpublished manuscript, Wake Forest University.
Furr, R. M., & Heuckeroth, S. A. (in press). The “Quantifying Construct Validity” procedure: Its role, value, interpretations, and computation. Assessment.
Furr, R. M. (in press). Psychometrics in clinical psychological research. In A. G. C. Wright & M. N. Hallquist (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in clinical psychology. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Furr, R. M., & Funder, D. C. (in press). Persons, situations, and person-situation interactions. In O. P. John & R. W. Robins (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (4th ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Furr, R. M. (2018). Psychometrics: An introduction (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Helzer, E. G., Jayawickreme, E., & Furr, R. M. (2018). Moral character: Current insights and future directions. In T. Shackelford & V. Ziegler-Hill (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of personality and individual differences (Vol. 2, pp. 278–300). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
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Hartley, A. G., & Furr, R. M. (2017). A profile-based framework for factorial similarity and the congruence coefficient. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99, 653–663.
Wood, D., & Furr, R. M. (2016). The correlates of similarity estimates are often misleadingly positive: The nature and scope of the problem, and some solutions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20, 79–99.
Miller, C., Furr, R. M., Knobel, A., & Fleeson, W. (Eds.). (2015). Character: New directions from philosophy, psychology, and theology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Helzer, E. G., Furr, R. M., Hawkins, A., Barranti, M., Blackie, L. E. R., & Fleeson, W. (2014). Agreement on the perception of moral character. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1398–1710.
Furr, R. M., & Wood, D. (2013). On the similarity between exchangeable profiles: A psychometric model, analytic strategy, and empirical illustration. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 233–247.
Furr, R. M. (2011). Scale construction and psychometrics for social and personality psychology. London: Sage.
Furr, R. M. (2010). The double-entry intraclass correlation as an index of profile similarity: Meaning, problems, and alternatives. Journal of Personality Assessment, 92, 1–15.
Carlson, E. N., & Furr, R. M. (2009). Evidence of differential meta-accuracy: People understand the different impressions they make. Psychological Science, 20, 1033–1039.
Furr, R. M. (2009a). Personality psychology as a truly behavioural science. European Journal of Personality, 23, 369–401.
Furr, R. M. (2009b). Profile analysis in person-situation integration. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 196–207.
Furr, R. M. (2008). A framework for profile similarity: Integrating similarity, normativeness, and distinctiveness. Journal of Personality, 76, 1267–1316.
Furr, R. M., Dougherty, D. M., Marsh, D. M., & Mathias, C. W. (2007). Personality judgment and personality pathology: Self-other agreement in adolescents with conduct disorder. Journal of Personality, 75, 629–662.
Furr, R. M., & Funder, D. C. (2004). Situational similarity and behavioral consistency: Subjective, objective, variable-centered, and person-centered approaches. Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 421–447.
Furr, R. M., & Rosenthal, R. (2003). Repeated-measures contrasts for “Multiple-pattern” hypotheses. Psychological Methods, 8, 275–293.
Funder, D. C., Furr, R. M., & Colvin, C. R. (2000). The Riverside behavioral q-sort: A tool for the description of social behavior. Journal of Personality, 68, 451–489.
Furr, R. M., & Funder, D. C. (1998). A multi-modal analysis of personal negativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1580–1591.
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Furr, R.M. (2019). Furr, R. Michael. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1713-1
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