Benet Martínez, Verónica

Political and Social Sciences
ICREA Researcher

Office: 20.100
Address:
Jaume I Building

Pompeu Fabra University

Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27
08005 - Barcelona SPAIN

Tel.: (34) 93 542 2684
Fax.: (34) 93 542 2372

veronica.benet@upf.edu

Personal website: http://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/Veronica-Benet-Martinez-518 Curriculum

Studies and academic degrees:

Dr. Benet-Martinez is currently an ICREA professor at Pompeu Fabra University's Department of Social and Political Sciences and member of GRITIM (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration).

Before joining ICREA, Dr. Benet-Martinez was a (tenured) professor at the University of California at Riverside (2003-2010), an assistant professor (tenure-track) at the University of Michigan (1998-2002), and a funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley (1995-97). At the University of California she was the founder and director of the Multicultural Identity Laboratory (http://biculturalism.ucr.edu/home.html).

Dr. Benet-Martinez, is an appointed Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (+7000 members), an Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (ranked #1 in this discipline), and an editorial board member for several psychology journals.

Dr. Benet-Martinez received a B.S. in psychology from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (1989), a Ph.D. in social/personality psychology from the University of California at Davis (1995).

CURRICULUM VITAE

Research interests:

Using correlational and experimental research designs, Dr. Benet-Martinez examines the following issues:

MULTI/BICULTURAL IDENTITY: Dynamics and socio-cognitive correlates of managing two or more cultural orientations and identities; Individual differences in bicultural identity structure; Biculturalism and social-networks; Consequences of biculturalism (social, cognitive, and adjustment-related).

CULTURE AND SELF-CONCEPT: Identification and measurement of culture-specific and -general personality constructs; Interplay of cultural values and personality in predicting wellbeing; Bilingualism and self-schemas.

CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH METHODS: Cultural/linguistic issues in instrument development and adaptation; Combined emic-etic methodology; Psychometrics of multi-group cultural comparisons.

Teaching:

Graduate-level: Cultural Processes in Social-Personality Psychology; Psychology of Multi/Biculturalism; Contemporary Issues in Personality Research

Undergraduate: Introduction to Social Psychology; Introduction to Personality Psychology; Introductory Psychology; Culture and Ethnicity in Psychology

Publications :

Selection from the last 10 years:

Benet-Martínez, V. (in press). Multiculturalism: Cultural, personality, and social processes. In K. Deaux & M. Snyder (Eds.), Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. Oxford University Press.

Chen, S., Benet-Martínez, V., & Bond, M.H. (2008). Bicultural identity, bilingualism, and psychological adjustment in multicultural societies. Journal of Personality, 76, 803-838.

Ozer, D., & Benet-Martínez, V. (2006). Personality and the prediction of consequential outcomes. Annual Review of Psychology, 57, 401-421.

Benet-Martínez, V., Lee, F., & Leu, J. (2006). Biculturalism and cognitive complexity: Expertise in cultural representations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37, 386-407.

Ramirez-Esparza, N., Gosling, S., Benet-Martínez, V., Potter, J. & Pennebaker, J. (2006). Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame-switching. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 99-120.

Benet-Martínez, V., & Haritatos, J. (2005). Bicultural Identity Integration (BII): Components and socio-personality antecedents. Journal of Personality, 73, 1015-1049.

Benet-Martínez, V., Leu, J., Lee, F., & Morris, M. (2002). Negotiating biculturalism: Cultural frame-switching in biculturals with 'oppositional' vs. 'compatible' cultural identities. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33, 492-516.

Aaker, J., Benet-Martínez, V., & Garolera, J. (2001). Consumption symbols as carriers of culture: A study of Japanese and Spanish brand personality constructs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 249-264.

Hong, Y., Morris, M., Chiu, C., & Benet-Martínez, V. (2000). Multicultural minds: A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition. American Psychologist, 55, 709-720.