Kelci Harris
Assistant professor
Psychology
- Contact:
- Office: COR A275 kelciharris@uvic.ca 250-853-3914
- Credentials:
- PhD (Washington University St. Louis)
- Area of expertise:
- Social psychology
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Interests
- friendship
- personality psychology
- intergroup relations
Faculty bio
My research centers around friendship. After adolescence, friendship is largely understudied even though it remains an important contributor to well-being throughout life. All of my work is driven by some combination of three research questions: How do our friendships affect us? How do we affect our friendships? What do friendships look like? To answer these questions, I collect rich, multi-method, data sets and foster collaborations.
Friendships are as fascinating as they are complicated. I utilize a variety of methods and statistical techniques, such as experience sampling with multilevel modelling and years-long longitudinal surveys with latent growth curve modeling, to try and address their complexity.