Allison Tackman

Allison Tackman is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Arizona. She teaches courses including Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychological Measurement & Statistics, and Introduction to Psychology. Her research focuses on personality structure, measurement, and expression across the lifespan, with emphasis on self-perception and interpersonal dynamics.

Her publications highlight behavioral personality science, depression-related language patterns, and personality development trajectories. Recent work examines the Big Five traits in daily behavior (2020) and life satisfaction analysis through conversation metrics (2018). Research synthesizes multi-lab data on self-referential language (2019) and developmental conscientiousness patterns (2017).