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Biography
David P. Schmitt, Ph.D.
Dr. Schmitt received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1995. He has been at Bradley University since 1995 and is a Full Professor and Chair of Psychology. He is also a Caterpillar Inc. Professor of Psychology and heads the Personality and Culture Lab (PaC Lab) at Bradley University.
His research interests include evolutionary and cross-cultural approaches to understanding personal relationships, sexual strategies, romantic attachment styles, and gender differences in human mating. He is also interested in the "Big Five" model of personality traits, risk factors for HIV/AIDS, and predictors of both sexual aggression and domestic violence across cultures.
Dr. Schmitt is Founding Director of the International Sexuality Description Project (Schmitt et al., 2003), a cross-cultural survey that included samples from 56 nations representing 6 continents, 13 islands, and 28 languages. He is currently completing the second wave of the ISDP (the ISDP-2). If you are interested in finding out more about the ISDP, please contact Dr. Schmitt at Bradley University (dps@bradley.edu).