Jeffrey Girard

Jeff Girard
  • Pilot Project Leader
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
  • Program Director, Brain, Behavior & Quantitative Science Program
  • M. Erik Wright Scholar
  • Co-Director of the Kansas Data Science Consortium

Contact Info

Fraser Hall, Room #454
Lawrence
1415 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045

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Biography —

Dr. Girard studies how emotions are expressed through verbal and nonverbal behavior, as well as how interpersonal communication is influenced by individual differences (e.g., personality and mental health) and social factors (e.g., culture and context). This work is deeply interdisciplinary and draws insights and tools from various areas of social science, computer science, statistics, and medicine.

Education —

Ph.D. in Psychology (Clincal), University of Pittsburgh
M.S. in Psychology (Clinical), University of Pittsburgh
B.A. in Psychology & Philosophy, University of Washington

Research —

Research interests:

  • Affective Communication
  • Affective Computing
  • Clinical Assessment
  • Interpersonal Functioning
  • Technology in Psychology
  • Statistics and Machine Learning

Teaching —

Statistical Methods in Psychology I (PSYC 790)

Statistical Methods in Psychology II (PSYC 791)

Data Science in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (PSYC 792)

Data 2: Foundations of Data Science (PSYC/ECON/POLS 399)

Selected Publications —

Sprunger, J. G., Girard, J. M., & Chard, K. M. (2024). Associations between transdiagnostic traits of psychopathology and hybrid posttraumatic stress disorder factors in a trauma-exposed community sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress.

Girard, J. M., Tie, Y., & Liebenthal, E. (2023). DynAMoS: The Dynamic Affective Movie Clip Database for Subjectivity Analysis. 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 1–8.

Girard, J. M., Vail, A. K., Liebenthal, E., Brown, K., Kilciksiz, C. M., Pennant, L., Liebson, E., Öngür, D., Morency, L.-P., & Baker, J. T. (2022). Computational analysis of spoken language in acute psychosis and mania. Schizophrenia Research, 245, 97–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2021.06.040

van Oest, R., & Girard, J. M. (2022). Weighting schemes and incomplete data: A generalized Bayesian framework for chance-corrected interrater agreement. Psychological Methods, 27(6), 1069–1088.

Girard, J.M., Cohn, J.F., Yin, L., & Morency, L.P. (2021). Reconsidering the Duchenne smile: Formalizing and testing hypotheses about eye constriction and positive emotion.Affective Science. 2(1), 32-47.

Service —

I have filled numerous committee and leadership roles in the department, college, and university. I am also on the executive boards of several research organizations in my field (Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Society for Affective Science, Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology society) and the editorial boards of several research journals (IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Collabra Psychology, Clinical Psychological Science, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, and NPP Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience).