Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Paulhus, Delroy L.

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

  • 193 Accesses

Brief Overview

Delroy (Del) Paulhus is a Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was born in Edmonton, Canada, in 1946 and moved around as a child as his father was posted to various army camps across the country. Along with two brothers, his teen years were spent in a happy family in Ottawa. In 1982, he married Carol Martin, a prominent developmental psychologist, but they divorced after 10 years. His second marriage was to Yanping Cui, a specialist in foreign-language learning.

Del received his B.A. from Carleton University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1980 and took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Georgia in 1982. He has published more than 140 articles, chapters, and books on a wide variety of topics.

Educational History

As an undergraduate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Del earned both psychology and mathematics degrees. That combination of majors led him to the laboratory of Bill Petrusic, a prominent expert...

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Buckels, E. E., Jones, D. N., & Paulhus, D. L. (2013). Behavioral confirmation of everyday sadism. Psychological Science, 24, 2201–2209.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Jones, D. N., & Paulhus, D. L. (2011). Differentiating the Dark Triad within the interpersonal circumplex. In L. M. Horowitz & S. Strack (Eds.), Handbook of interpersonal psychology: Theory, research, assessment, and therapeutic interventions (pp. 249–268). New York: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L. (1984). Two-component models of socially desirable responding. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 598–609.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L. (1991). Measurement and control of response bias. In J. P. Robinson, P. R. Shaver, & L. S. Wrightsman (Eds.), Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes (pp. 17–59). New York: Academic.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L. (1998). Intrapsychic and interpersonal adaptiveness of trait self-enhancement: A mixed blessing? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 812–820.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L. (2002). Socially desirable responding: The evolution of a construct. In H. Braun, D. N. Jackson, & D.E. Wiley (Eds.), The role of constructs in psychological and educational measurement (pp.67–88). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L. (2014). Toward a taxonomy of dark personalities. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 421–426.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L., & John, O. P. (1998). Egoistic and moralistic bias in self-perceptions: The interplay of self-deceptive styles with basic traits and motives. Journal of Personality, 66, 1024–1060.

    Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L., & Williams, K. M. (2002). The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 556–568.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L., Harms, P. D., Bruce, M. N., & Lysy, D. C. (2003). The over-claiming technique: Measuring self-enhancement independent of ability. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 681–693.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L., Robins, R. W., Trzesniewski, K. H., & Tracy, J. L. (2004). Two replicable suppressor situations in personality research. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 39, 303–328.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Paulhus, D. L., Westlake, B. G., Calvez, S. S., & Harms, P. D. (2013). Self-presentation style in job interviews: The role of personality and culture. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 2042–2059.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trapnell, P. D., & Paulhus, D. L. (2012). Agentic and communal values: Their scope and measurement. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 39–52.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Del Paulhus

Authors
  1. Del Paulhus
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Del Paulhus .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

Section Editor information

  1. Northeastern State University http://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8

    April Phillips

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2016 Springer International Publishing AG

About this entry

Cite this entry

Paulhus, D. (2016). Paulhus, Delroy L.. 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_1771-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1771-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-28099-8

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and PsychologyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation