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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). . New York: Guilford Press.

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

Articles and Book Chapters:

• Shiner, R. L. (2024). , 84(1), 10-13.
• Gillespie, S., Shiner, R. L., Masten, A. S., & Motti-Stefanidi, F. (2024).  European Journal of Personality, 38(1), 53-66.
• Shiner, R. L., van den Berg, T., van Aken, M. A. G., & Laceulle, O. M. (2023). . 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). . 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). . 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). (2022). Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 13(4), 340-342.
• Tappenden, P. C., Shiner, R. L., & Mo, F. (2022). Journal of Traumatic Stress, 35, 288-301. *Tappenden and Shiner were co-first authors.
• Shiner, R. L., Soto, C. J., & De Fruyt, F. (2021). . 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
• ������ 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

������ publications: “; (12/20/19)

Online article: “” P: The online newsletter for personality science, Vol. 14, 2020. 

Audio book: (15 lecture course). Learn 25. Published April 2019.

Guest blog post writer at Thrive Global, “?” (7/6/17).

Media expert included in BBC Future: “” (7/28/20); NYMag Science of Us: “” (10/11/16); “’” (10/27/16); “” (11/11/16); “” (11/17/16). 

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