Prof. Dr. Julie Schermer

Julie Aitken Schermer holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario (1999). Currently, she is a jointly appointed Professor in the Department of Psychology (60%) and Management and Organizational Studies (40%) at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. She was an Assistant Professor at Brescia University College, London, Ontario for two years. She was then hired as an Assistant Professor in the Administrative and Commercial Studies Program (later the Department of Management and Organizational Studies) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of Western Ontario where she was tenured in 2006 and promoted to Full Professor in 2014. Her research interests include personality, vocational interests, loneliness, humor styles, and recently why people drive loud vehicles. In her past research, she has shown that loneliness has a genetic component and that people who engage in self-defeating humor score higher in self-report loneliness.