University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
                Research Center for Group Dynamics

 

Steven Trierweiler

Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Research Center for Group Dynamics

Steven Trierweiler
5040 ISR
426 Thompson Street
Phone: 734-764-8360

Research focuses on interpersonal perception, cognition, and judgment; and scientific thinking in applied contexts. Current work involves (1) Clinical judgment and decision making in psychodiagnostic interviewing in a cross racial/ethnic context; (2) interpersonal event memory as realized in psychotherapeutic and supervisory narratives, and the ways clinicians access and derive clinical hypotheses based on such narratives; (3) interpersonal perception, cognition and interaction in couples and families. Teaching emphasizes (1) the development of critical thinking and inquiry skills in clinical psychology students via training in scientific methodology -- including philosophy of science, traditional research design and statistics, measurement theory, qualitative research methods, and evaluation research; and (2) training models for integrating scientific and clinical thinking in psychological practice.