Rate My Professor Victor Bissonnette

Bissonnette's research examines basic attitudes and behaviors in intimate relationships, alongside empathy, prosocial behavior, morality, and dark-triad personality traits. He collaborates with students on projects, such as those presented at the Association for Psychological Science conventions, including 'Does Empathy Mediate the Relationship Between the Dark Triad Traits and Altruism?' (2019) and 'Take me as I am: The morality and self-image of the Dark Triad Personality' (2016). His peer-reviewed publications include 'Naturalistic social cognition: Empathic accuracy in mixed-sex dyads' (Ickes et al., 1990, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), 'Perceptual and response interactions in semantic priming' (Bernstein et al., 1990, Perception and Psychophysics), 'Empathic accuracy among newly married couples' (Kilpatrick et al., 2002, Personal Relationships), 'The relationship among name writing and early literacy skills in kindergarten children' (Haney et al., 2003, Child Study Journal), 'The effects of modeling and topic stimulus on self-referent touching' (Butzen et al., 2005, Perceptual and Motor Skills), and 'Teachers’ perceptions about the use of play to facilitate development and teach prosocial skills' (Haney & Bissonnette, 2011, Creative Education). Bissonnette has contributed chapters to edited volumes, such as on empathic accuracy and marital conflict resolution (1996) and accommodation processes in marriage (1998). He developed Stats Homework, a free statistical software package, along with spreadsheets and tables for teaching introductory statistics and research methods in behavioral sciences, enhancing student learning.