Signal Patterns Forms Scientific Advisory Board with Leading Scientists and Researchers...

Signal Patterns Forms Scientific Advisory Board with Leading Scientists and
Researchers from Top Universities
Newly formed group represents the world's largest team of psychologists to
work on social web applications

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Signal Patterns, developers
of scientific-based social web applications that characterize and connect
people in meaningful ways, today announced its Scientific Advisory Board.
Composed of leading academic experts in personality psychology and
psychometrics, the team will help support the company's research initiatives
and personality assessment technology.
Signal Patterns' Scientific Advisory Board is the world's largest team of
psychologists assembled to collaborate and work on social web applications.
The Scientific Advisory Board is headed by Lewis R. Goldberg, Ph.D., a
prominent psychologist who is Professor Emeritus with the University of Oregon
and a senior scientist with the Oregon Research Institute.
Goldberg is also part of Signal Patterns' Science Team, which includes
Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D, who directs the McGill Laboratory for the Study of
Music Cognition, Perception and Expertise; Jason Rentfrow, Ph.D, Psychology,
an expert in personality and social psychology and lecturer at the Faculty of
Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University in England; and David H.
Rosen, Ph.D, Psychology, a behavioral and personality psychology expert and
consultant.
The Science Team works closely with the Signal Patterns product
development team in developing new surveys and models, and conducting
experiments. In addition, the Science Team works with the Scientific Advisory
Board on research projects in specific subject areas.
The Scientific Advisory Board includes 19 behavioral experts specializing
in different domains such as leadership, work psychology, media and genre
preferences, and social attitudes from leading academic institutions such as
Northwestern University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Oregon,
Universitat Hamburg, and University of Southern California.
"This esteemed group of research psychologists represents the leaders in
personality and psychology," said Ran Zilca, CEO and co-founder of Signal
Patterns. "Working alongside our Science Team, the Scientific Advisory Board
will help us break new ground in personality and psychological assessment, and
provide valuable insight into the connections between personality, behavior
and preferences."
Signal Patterns develops research surveys aimed to help people identify
and recognize their own unique patterns of personality and preferences in a
wide range of subject areas, from career choices to leisure activities, music
preferences, friends, and more. Through Signal Patterns' surveys, people are
able to learn more about their selves - and ultimately use that knowledge to
seek out people with whom they can better relate, as well as identify a career
change and new pastimes they would enjoy.
The company recently launched a Personality Patterns Facebook application
that offers an in-depth 45-score personality assessment algorithm based on the
trait-based "Big Five" theory. This innovative survey assesses and connects
people based on unique personality traits rather than the rough "buckets" of
personality types found in more traditional type-based personality assessment
methods like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R) (MBTI). An extended and more
detailed personality assessment, as well as a music preferences survey and
other features, are available at SignalPatterns.com.
Scientific Advisory Board members:
-- Paul Barrett, Chief Research Scientist, Hogan Assessment Systems
-- Tom Buchanan, Reader in Psychology, University of Westminster, UK
-- Matthias Burisch, Fachbereich Psychologie, Universitat Hamburg
-- David Buss, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
-- William Chaplin, Professor of Psychology, St John's University
-- Colin DeYoung, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities
-- Sam Gosling, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at
Austin
-- Willem Hofstee, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of
Groningen, Netherlands
-- John McArdle, Senior Professor of Psychology, University of Southern
California
-- Robert McGrath, Professor of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University
-- Daniel Nettle, Reader in Psychology, Newcastle University
-- James Pennebaker, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology,
The University of Texas at Austin
-- William Revelle, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
-- Brent Roberts, Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
-- Jim Russell, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology,
Boston College
-- Gerard Saucier, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
-- Leonard Simms, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University at
Buffalo, State University of New York
-- Sanjay Srivastava, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of
Oregon
-- Michelle Yik, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, The Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology

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About Signal Patterns
Signal Patterns develops social web applications that characterize and
connect users to each other based on their interests, personality and
preferences. With these scientific-based applications, consumers can discover
more about themselves and make valuable connections to like-minded
individuals, while publishers, advertisers and social networks can increase
their own user engagement. Signal Patterns' patent-pending technology results
from a unique combination of in-house behavioral science research and data
mining expertise. Pleasantville, NY-based Signal Patterns was founded in 2006.
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