David P. Schmitt, Ph.D.

Founding Director, International Sexuality Description Project       

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1995. I have been at Bradley University since 1995 and am a Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology. I am also a Caterpillar Inc. Professor of Psychology and I head the Personality and Culture Lab (PaC Lab) at Bradley University.  

My research interests include evolutionary and cross-cultural approaches to understanding personal relationships, sexual strategies, romantic attachment styles, and gender differences in human mating. I am 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.

I am the Founding Director of the International Sexuality Description Project (Schmitt et al., 2003), a cross-cultural survey study that included samples from 56 nations representing 6 continents, 13 islands, and 28 languages. I am currently completing the second wave of the ISDP (the ISDP-2). If you are interested in finding out more about the ISDP, please contact me at Bradley University (dps@bradley.edu).

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