Her research examines people's self-knowledge of their personality and behavior, and she also does work on research methods. The goal of her research is to understand how much insight people have into factors that influence their own behavior and well-being. Simine Vazire received her Ph.D. from University of Texas, Austin in 2006 and was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis from 2007 to 2014. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2013-14. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. In addition to being a senior editor at Collabra, she is also an associate editor for Social Psychological and Personality Science, Journal of Research in Personality, and Perspectives on Psychological Science. Simine blogs on Typepad and is on Twitter at @siminevazire.