Simine Vazire

Simine Vazire (born 1980) is Professor of Psychology Ethics and Wellbeing^[1] at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was formerly Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis and at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a social and personality psychologist who studies how self-perception and self-knowledge influence one's personality and behavior. She obtained a PhD in the social and personality psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin.

Vazire was recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology in 2015 for "original contributions to understanding the limits of self-knowledge and the constraints on our knowledge of others."^[2] Vazire was recognized as a rising star by the Association for Psychological Science.^[3] Her other awards include the SAGE Young Scholar Award (2011),^[4] and the Outstanding Early Career Award from the International Society for Self and Identity (2011).^[5]

Vazire has been a leader in efforts to reform research practices in psychology.^[6] She co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), which aims to encourage open, reproducible science; she has served as chair of the SIPS executive committee^[7] and is a member of the senior editorial team of their journal Collabra: Psychology.^[8] Vazire is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science (2016–2019)^[9] and is editor of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.^[10] With Timothy D. Wilson, Vazire co-edited the Handbook of Self-Knowledge,^[11] which reviews the state of the science on how people perceive their own personality traits, behaviors, thoughts, emotions, and relationships.