Hi!

My name is Jaime Lane Derringer. I’m an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

I’m also the psych department’s Assistant Head of Information & Communication (complain to me about our website).

I am an interdisciplinary scientist, working at the intersection of personality psychology and molecular genetics. My dual expertise in genetic methods and psychological assessment has led to the development of a research program organized around understanding how people, for all the fundamental similarities across members of our species, display such remarkable diversity and flexibility of behavior. I co-run the Etiology of Personality and Individual Characteristics (EPIC) lab with Dr. D. A. Briley.

I am not accepting new graduate students for Fall 2025.

My current research, teaching, and service focus is on two topics: how we (scientists, the public) understand human behavior genetics, and improving integration of gender & sexuality concepts in psychological science.