Associate Professor and Assistant Head, Information & Communication

Research Interests

  • Individual differences
  • Measurement
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Behavior genetics

My dual expertise in genetic methods and psychological assessment has led to the development of a research program organized around understanding how people, for all the fundamental similarities across members of our species, display such remarkable diversity and flexibility of behavior.

I am not accepting new graduate students for Fall 2026.

Education

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado
Psychology, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Psychology, B.S., Carnegie Mellon University

Courses Taught

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Psychology
Affiliate, Center for Social & Behavioral Science

Recent Publications

Junkins, E. J., Briley, D. A., Ogolsky, B. G., & Derringer, J. (2025). Examination of Repeated Measurement of Personality, Social Relationships and Mental Health in a Sexual and Gender Diverse Sample. International Journal of Psychology, 60(4), Article e70069. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70069

Junkins, EJ., Ogolsky, BG., & Derringer, J. (2025). Not Like Everybody Else but We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables Compared Across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities. Journal of Personality, 93(4), 998-1012. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12989

Junkins, E. J., Kadel, B. E., & Derringer, J. (2025). Parental and partner attachment working models in romantic relationships of nonbinary adults. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 42(5), 1178-1198. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075251316318

Junkins, E. J., Briley, D. A., Ogolsky, B. G., & Derringer, J. (2025). Registered Report Stage II: Does personality vary by relationship power? An investigation of satisfaction in diverse romantic partnerships. Journal of Research in Personality, 116, Article 104597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104597

Junkins, E. J., Briley, D. A., & Derringer, J. (2025). The Assessment and Heritability of a Brief Measure of Agency. Behavior genetics, 55(3), 185-198. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10519-025-10220-6

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