Rebecca Shiner

BA, Haverford College, 1990; PhD, University of Minnesota, 1998

Personality, clinical psychology, child development 

Books:

McAdams, D., Shiner, R. L., & Tackett, J. L. (Eds.). (2019). Handbook of personality development. New York: Guilford Press.

Zentner, M., & Shiner, R. L. (Eds.). (2012). Handbook of temperament. New York: Guilford Press.

Articles and Book Chapters:

• Shiner, R. L. (2024). Negative and positive urgency in children and adolescents. International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development Bulletin, 84(1), 10-13.
• Gillespie, S., Shiner, R. L., Masten, A. S., & Motti-Stefanidi, F. (2024). Personality development among immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents in the context of a great economic recession: Disruption or maturation? European Journal of Personality, 38(1), 53-66.
• Shiner, R. L., van den Berg, T., van Aken, M. A. G., & Laceulle, O. M. (2023). The development of temperament, personality traits, and coping in childhood and adolescence. In E. A. Skinner & M. J. Zimmer-Gembeck (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 401-424). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• De Maat, D. A., Lucassen, N., Shiner, R. L., & Prinzie, P. (2023). A person-centered approach to resilience and vulnerability in emerging adulthood: Predictions from parenting and personality in adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 35(4), 1913-1928.
• See, A. Y., Klimstra, T. A., Shiner, R. L., Subramaniam, M., Ong, S. H., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2023). The relations between narrative identity and personality pathology among clinical adolescents: Findings from a multi-ethnic Asian sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 105(4), 463-474.
• Shiner, R. L. (2022). The development of emotions in sociocultural context in childhood and adolescence. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 6(1), 53-56.
• Shiner, R. L. (2022). An agenda for establishing the DSM-5 Alternative Model of Personality Disorder (AMPD) trait model in adolescence: Comment on Clark and Watson (2022). Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 13(4), 340-342.
• Tappenden, P. C., Shiner, R. L., & Mo, F. (2022). The relationship between veterans’ narrative processing of their service experiences and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, daily functioning, and well-being. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 35, 288-301. *Tappenden and Shiner were co-first authors.
• Shiner, R. L., Soto, C. J., & De Fruyt, F. (2021). Personality assessment in children and adolescents. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 3, 113-137. 
• Shiner, R. L. (2021). Personality development in middle childhood. In O. P. John & R. W. Robins (Eds.), Handbook of personality, 4^th ed. (pp. 284-302). New York: Guilford Press.
• Shiner, R. L., Klimstra, T. A., Denissen, J. J. A., & See, A. Y. (2021). The development of narrative identity and the emergence of personality disorders in adolescence. Current Opinion in Psychology, 37, 49-53. 
• See, A. Y., Klimstra, T. A., Shiner, R. L., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2020). Linking narrative identity with schizotypal personality disorder features in adolescents. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Advance online publication.
• Shiner, R. L. (2019). Negative emotionality and neuroticism from childhood through adulthood: A lifespan perspective. In D. McAdams, R. L. Shiner, & J. L. Tackett (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 137-152). New York: Guilford Press. 
• Shiner, R. L. (2018). What are the dimensions and bases for lasting individual differences in emotion? In R. Davidson, A. Hackman, A. Fox, & R. Lapate (Eds.), The Nature of Emotion (2^nd edition, pp. 61-64). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Shiner, R. L. (2018). What develops in emotional development? In R. Davidson, A. Hackman, A. Fox, & R. Lapate (Eds.), The Nature of Emotion (2^nd edition, pp. 379-382). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Shiner, R. L., & Allen, T. A. (2018). Developmental psychopathology of personality disorders. In J. Livesley & R. Larstone (Eds.), Handbook of personality disorders: Theory, research, and treatment (2^nd ed., pp. 309-323). New York: Guilford Press.
• Shiner, R. L. (2018). The dynamic personality processes underlying emerging personality disorders in childhood and adolescence. European Journal of Personality, 32, 585-586.
• Shiner, R. L. (2017). Personality trait structure, processes, and development in childhood and adolescence. European Journal of Personality, 31, 567-568.
• Shiner, R. L. Allen, T. A., & Masten, A. S. (2017). Adversity in adolescence predicts personality trait change from childhood to adulthood. Journal of Research in Personality, 67, 171-182.
• Becht, A. E., Prinzie, P., Deković, van den Akker, A. L., & Shiner, R. L. (2016). Child personality facets and overreactive parenting as predictors of aggression and rule-breaking trajectories from childhood to adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 28, 399-413. doi:10.1017/S0954579415000577
• Shiner, R. L. (2015). Maximizers, satisficers, and their satisfaction with and preferences for reversible versus irreversible decisions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(8), 896-903.

• Prinzie, P., van Harten, L., Deković, M., van den Akker, A., & Shiner, R. L. (2014). Developmental trajectories of anxious and depressive problems during the transition from childhood to adolescence: Personality x parenting interactions. Development and Psychopathology, 26, 1077-1092.

• Shiner, R. L., & Tackett, J. L. (2014). Personality disorders in children and adolescents. In E. J. Mash & R. A. Barkley (Eds.), Child Psychopathology, 3^rd Ed (pp. 848-896). New York: Guilford Press. 

• Shiner, R. L. (2014). The development of temperament and personality traits in childhood and adolescence. In M. Mikulincer, & P. Shaver (Eds.), M. L. Cooper, & R. Larsen (Assoc. Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology: Vol. 3. Personality processes and individual differences (pp. 85-105). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 

• Shiner, R. L., & Allen, T. A. (2013). Assessing personality disorders in adolescents: Seven guiding principles. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 20, 361-377.

• ·van den Akker, A. L., Deković, J., Asscher, J. J., Shiner, R. L., & Prinzie, P. (2013). Personality types in childhood: Relations to latent trajectory classes of problem behavior and overreactive parenting across the transition into adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(4), 750-764. 

• Shiner, R. L., & DeYoung, C. G. (2013). The structure of temperament and personality traits: A developmental perspective. In P. Zelazo (Ed.), Oxford handbook of developmental psychology (pp. 113-141). New York: Oxford University Press.  

• Shiner, R. L., & Masten, A. S. (2012). Childhood personality as a harbinger of competence and resilience in adulthood. Development and Psychopathology, 24(2), 507-528.

• Shiner, R. L., & Caspi, A. (2012), Temperament and the development of personality traits, adaptations, and narratives. In M. Zentner & R. L. Shiner (Eds.), Handbook of temperament (pp. 497-516). New York: Guilford Press.

• Zentner, M., & Shiner, R. L. (2012). Fifty years of progress in temperament research: A synthesis of major themes, findings, and challenges and a look ahead. In M. Zentner & R. L. Shiner (Eds.), Handbook of temperament (pp. ). New York: Guilford Press.

• Shiner, R. L., Buss, K. A., McClowry, S. G., Putnam, S. P., Saudino, K. J., & Zentner, M. (2012), What is temperament now? Assessing progress in temperament research on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Goldsmith et al. (1987). Child Development Perspectives.

• Shiner, R. L. (2010). Mapping the landscape of personality in childhood and adolescence. Social Psychology and Personality Compass, 4, 1084-1097.

• Shiner, R. L. (2009). The development of personality disorders: Perspectives from normal personality development in childhood and adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 715-734.

• Shiner, R. L., & Masten, A. S. (2008). Personality in childhood: A bridge from early temperament to adult outcomes. European Journal for Developmental Science, 2, 158-175. Special Issue: Current Trends in the Study of Child Temperament.

• Caspi, A., & Shiner, R. L. (2008). Temperament and personality. In M. Rutter, D. Bishop, D. Pine, S. Scott, J. Stevenson, E. Taylor, & A. Thapar (Eds.), Rutter’s child and adolescent psychiatry (5^th ed., pp. 182-199). London: Blackwell.

• Shiner, R. L. (2007). Personality disorders. In E. J. Mash & R. A. Barkley (Eds.), Assessment of childhood disorders (4^th ed., pp. 781-816). New York: Guilford Press.

• Roberts, B. W., Kuncel, N. R., Shiner, R. L., Caspi, A., & Goldberg, L. R. (2007), The power of personality: The comparative validity of personality traits, socioeconomic status, and cognitive ability for predicting important life outcomes. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 2, 313-345.

• Shiner, R. L. (2006), Temperament and personality in childhood. In D. K. Mroczek & T. Little (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 213-230). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

• Caspi, A., & Shiner, R. L. (2006). Personality development. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & N. Eisenberg (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology, Vol. 3. Social, emotional, and personality development (6th edition, pp. 300-365). New York: Wiley.

•  Shiner, R. L. (2005). A developmental perspective on personality disorders: Lessons from research on normal personality development in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Personality Disorders, 19, 202-210.

• Caspi, A., Roberts, B. W., & Shiner, R. L. (2005). Personality development: Stability and change. Annual Review of Psychology, 56, 453-484.

• Shiner, R. L. (2005). A developmental perspective on personality disorders: Lessons from research on normal personality development in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Personality Disorders, 19, 202-210.

• Shiner, R. L. (2005). An emerging developmental science of personality: Current progress and future prospects.Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 51, 379-387.

• Shiner, R. L., Masten, A. S., & Roberts, J. M. (2003). Childhood personality foreshadows adult personality and life outcomes two decades later. Journal of Personality, 71, 1145-1170. Special issue: Personality development.

• Shiner, R. L., & Caspi, A. (2003). Personality differences in childhood and adolescence: Measurement, development, and consequences. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 44, 1-31.

• Shiner, R. L., & Masten, A. S. (2002). Transactional links between personality and adaptation from childhood through adulthood. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 580-588.

• Shiner, R. L., Masten, A. S., & Tellegen, A. (2002). A developmental perspective on personality in emerging adulthood: Childhood antecedents and concurrent adaptation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 1165-1177.

• Shiner, R. L. (2000). Linking childhood personality with adaptation: Evidence for continuity and change across time into late adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 310-325.

• Shiner, R. L., & Marmorstein, N. R. (1998). Family environments of adolescents with lifetime depression: Associations with maternal depression history. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 37, 1152-1160.

• Shiner, R. L. (1998). How shall we speak of children’s personality traits in middle childhood? A preliminary taxonomy. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 308-332.

• University of Minnesota Department of Psychology Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award 2024
• Charles A. Dana Chair, 2021 - present
• Master Lecturer, Personality, American Psychological Association, Personality, 2021
• Fellow, Association for Psychological Science, Clinical Science, 2019
• Service Award, Association for Research in Personality, 2019
• Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2018
• Princeton Review's Best 300 Professors, 2012
• Colgate Presidential Scholar, 2008-2011

• Professor, 2013 – present 
• Founder and Faculty Director, Ciccone Residential Commons, 2015 – 2021 
• Chair, Department of Psychology, 2010 – 2013     
• University Professor, Scientific Perspectives Program, 2007 – 2010
• Associate Professor, 2005 – 2013
• Assistant Professor, 1999 – 2005
• Psychology Intern, University of Rochester Medical Center, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1998 – 1999
• Research Coordinator, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 1991 – 1992
• Case Administrator, Cambridge and Somerville Cooperative Apartment Project, 1990 – 1991

• Introduction to Psychology
• Personality Psychology
• Developmental Psychopathology
• Psychotherapy and Behavior Change
• The Good Life: Perspectives from Psychological Science (Scientific Perspectives course)
• Resilience in the Face of Suffering and Adversity
• Senior Research in Psychology

• Board Member, Central New York Psychological Association, 2021 – present
• Committee Member, Primarily Undergraduate Institutions Committee, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2020 –2022
• Executive Officer, Association for Research in Personality, 2015 – 2017
• Instructor, Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Personality Development course, 2015
• Executive Board Member-at-Large, Association for Research in Personality, 2007 – 2010
• Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2009
• Consultant, DSM-5 Working Group on Personality and Personality Disorders, 2008-2013

• Associate Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2015 – 2017    
• Governing Consortium Member, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2015 – 2016
• Associate Editor, Journal of Personality, 2004 – 2008
• Consultant Editor:Personality Disorders:
  • Theory, Research, and Treatment, 2009 – 2014;
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2009 – 2013;
  • European Journal of Personality, 2001 – 2012;
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2008 – 2011;
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2009 – 2010;
  • Journal of Personality, 2008 – 2011;
  • Journal of Research in Personality, 2003 – 2005

Colgate publications: “Tolerating uncertainty: How to cope with the unpredictable nature of our current times” in Colgate Magazine, Summer 2020; “Negative emotionality and neuroticism from childhood through adulthood” in Colgate Research (12/20/19)

Online article: “Teaching tips: Up film series paper assignment.” P: The online newsletter for personality science, Vol. 14, 2020. 

Audio book: Find the right therapy: Cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy, family counseling, and other treatments that work (15 lecture course). Learn 25. Published April 2019.

Guest blog post writer at Thrive Global, “When it comes to decisions, are you a maximizer or a satisficer?” (7/6/17).

Media expert included in BBC Future: “How lockdown may have changed your personality” (7/28/20); NYMag Science of Us: “What is ‘Presidential temperament,’ anyway?” (10/11/16); “’Introvert or extravert’ is the wrong way to define your identity” (10/27/16); “How to (kind of) master your neuroticism” (11/11/16); “This revolutionary parenting insight will help your love life” (11/17/16). 

Media discussions of Shiner (2015), “Maximizers, satisficers, and their satisfaction with and preferences for reversible versus irreversible decisions”: NYMag Science of Us (11/10/15), BYU Radio—Matt Townsend Show (11/23/15), PsychologicalScience.org—Minds for Business (10/22/15).