Psychology

Phillip Shaver

Distinguished Professor

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Dr. Shaver conducts research in two areas: close relationships and emotions. In the close relationships area he has studied the application of Bowlby and Ainsworth's attachment theory to research on relationship loss and adult romantic love. Currently, he is extending this work to the study of attachment-style differences in defenses or coping strategies, and in couple communication. In the field of emotions, he has proposed a prototype methodology for mapping individuals' and cultures' cognitive representations of the emotion domain and, with the help of students from other countries, is investigating everyday conceptions of emotions such as love and shame in various cultures. Dr. Shaver, who has served as Executive Officer of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and received a Distinguished Career Award from the International Association for Relationship Research, is past editor of Review of Personality and Social Psychology, current associate editor of Attachment and Human Development, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personal Relationships. He is co-editor of several books, including Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications, which is currently being revised, Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes, and Measures of Political Attitudes. With Mario Mikulincer, he has in press a book about adult attachment research, Patterns of Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change. A list of his publications since 1987 appears on his lab group's web site: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/labs/Shaver