Richard W. Robins

Department of Psychology

University of California

Davis, CA  95616-8686

(530) 754-8299

rwrobins@ucdavis.edu

 

 

EDUCATION

1995                Ph.D., Psychology (Social/Personality), University of California, Berkeley,

1988                B.A., Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

 

POSITIONS

2004-present   Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

2000-2004       Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

1996-2000       Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

1996-present   Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley

1998                Visiting Researcher, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London

1995-1996       Postdoctoral Research Psychologist, Institute of Personality and Social Research, University of California, Berkeley

 

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2003-2008       Principal investigator, “Predoctoral training consortium in affective science,” National Institute of Mental Health (Subcontract to T32-MH-20006)

2003-2006       Principal investigator, “A cohort-sequential study of self-esteem development,” National Institute on Aging (R03-AG-022057)

2000-2001       Institute of Governmental Affairs ("Age differences in self-esteem across the lifespan"), University of California, Davis

2000-2001       Principal investigator, "Effects of communication medium on interpersonal interaction," National Institute of Mental Health (R03-MH-61829)

2000-2001       Principal investigator, “Personality types and life outcomes,” National Institute of Mental Health (Subcontract to R01-MH-49414)

1999-2003       Co-investigator, “Predoctoral training consortium in affective science,” National Institute of Mental Health (T32-MH-20006)

1998                Fellowship, Developmental Programme on Personality and Psychopathology, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London

1996-1997       Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Davis

1996                Summer Research Fellowship, University of California, Davis

1994-1995       Chancellor's Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1994                Provost's Dissertation Research Award, University of California, Berkeley

1989-1992              National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

2003                Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution, American Psychological Association

2002                Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

2002-2007              Chancellor’s Fellow, University of California, Davis

 

EDITORIAL SERVICE

Associate Editor (2003-2006), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Guest Editor (2002, 2003), Journal of Research in Personality

Consulting Editor

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1999-2002)

Journal of Personality (2000-2002)

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (1999- )

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (2003)

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member (2007-2008), Selection committee for Murray Research Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Chair (2005), Selection committee for Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Review

Chair (2005), Selection committee for Student Publication Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Member (2005), Review Panel (“Childhood: Personality Processes”), Society for Research in Child Development

Member (2005), Review Panel (“Development of Personality, Emotion, and Identity”), Society for Research on Adolescence

Invited participant (2005), Science Leadership Conference, American Psychological Association

Member (2004), Selection committee for Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Member (2004), Selection committee for Editor of Self and Identity

Ad Hoc Grant reviewer (2004), National Science Foundation

Member (2003-2006), Publications Committee, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Member (2003-2006), Executive Committee, International Society for Self and Identity

Member (2001-2004), Executive Committee, Association for Research in Personality

Member (1999-2000), Personality and Social Cognition Review Committee (NIH RPHB-4)

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

            Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (in press).  The nonverbal expression of pride: Evidence for cross-cultural recognition.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

            Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (in press).  The automaticity of emotion recognition. Emotion.

 

Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (in press). Going forward by drawing from the past: Personal strivings, personally meaningful memories, and personality traits. Journal of Personality.

 

John, O. P., Robins, R. W., & Pervin, L. A. (in press).  Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd Edition).  New York: Guilford.

 

Robins, R. W., Tracy, J. L., & Trzesniewski, K. H. (in press).  Naturalizing the self.  In John, O. P., Robins, R. W., & Pervin, L. A. (Editors).  Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd Edition).  New York: Guilford.

 

Trzesniewski, K. H., Donnellan, M. B., & Robins, R. W. (in press).  Do today’s college students really think they are so extraordinary? An examination of secular changes in narcissism and self-enhancement.  Psychological Science. 

 

            Trzesniewski, K. H., Donnellan, M. B., & Robins, R. W. (in press).  Is “Generation Me” really more narcissistic than previous generations?  Journal of Personality. 

 

                Donnellan, M. B., & Robins, R. W. (in press).  The development of personality across the life span. In G. Matthews and P. Corr (Eds), Cambridge Handbook of Personality. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (in press). The prototypical pride expression: Development of a nonverbal behavior coding scheme.  Emotion.

 

            Donnellan, M. B., Assad, K. K., Robins, R. W., & Conger, R. D. (in press). Do negative interactions mediate the effects of negative emotionality, communal positive emotionality, and constraint on relationship satisfaction? Journal of Personal and Social Relationships.

 

            Robins, R. W., Trzesniewski, K. H., & Schriber, R. A. (in press).  Assessing self-esteem. In F. T. L. Leong (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Counseling.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.  

 

            Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (in press). Self-conscious emotions: Where self and emotion meet. In C. Sedikides & S. Spence (Eds.), The self in social psychology. Frontiers of social psychology.  New York: Psychology Press.      

 

            Tracy, J. L. & Robins, R. W. (2007).  The nature and function of pride.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 147-150.             

 

            Noftle, E. E., & Robins, R. W. (2007).  Personality predictors of academic outcomes: Big Five correlates of GPA and SAT scores.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 116-130.

 

            Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2007). Phenomenology of autobiographical memories: The Memory Experiences Questionnaire.  Memory.

 

            Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007). The psychological structure of pride: A tale of two facets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 506-525.

 

Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Tangney, J. (2007).  The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research.  New York: Guilford. 

 

            Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007). A neglected yet (self) important self-conscious emotion: Theory and research on pride. In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research.  New York: Guilford. 

 

            Robins, R. W., Noftle, E. E., & Tracy, J. L. (2007). Assessing self-conscious emotions: A review of self-report and nonverbal measures.  In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robins, and J. Tangney, The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research (pp. 443-467).  New York: Guilford. 

 

            Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007). The self in self-conscious emotions: A cognitive appraisal approach. In J. L. Tracy, R. W. Robins, & J. P. Tangney (Eds), The self-conscious emotions: Theory and research.  New York: Guilford. 

 

Robins, R. W., Fraley, R. C., & Krueger, R. F. (Eds.) (2007).  Handbook of research methods in personality psychology.  New York: Guilford.

 

            Robins, R. W., Tracy, J. L., & Sherman, J. W. (2007).  What makes a personality psychologist? A survey of journal editors and editorial board members. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, and R. F. Krueger (Eds), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 673-678)  New York: Guilford.

 

            Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2006).  Appraisal antecedents of shame, guilt, and pride: Support for a theoretical model.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1339-1351.

 

            Trzesniewski, K. H., Donnellan, M. B., Moffitt, T. E., Robins, R. W., Poulton, R., & Caspi, A. (2006). Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poor health, criminal behavior, and limited economic prospects during adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 42, 381-390.

 

Donnellan, M. B., Trzesniewski, K. H., & Robins, R. W. (2006).  Personality and self-esteem development in adolescence.  In D. Mroczek & T. Little (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 285-310).  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Robins, R. W. (2005).  The nature of personality: Genes, culture, and national character.  Science, 310, 62-63.

 

Robins, R. W., & Trzesniewski, K. H. (2005).  Self-esteem development across the lifespan.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 158-162.

 

Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2005).  Can children recognize pride?  Emotion, 5, 251-257.

 

            Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (2005).  Continuity and correlates of emotions and motives in self-defining memories.  Journal of Personality, 73, 793-824.

 

Donnellan, M. B., Trzesniewski, K. H., Robins, R. W., Moffitt, T. E., & Caspi, A. (2005). Exploring the link between self-esteem and externalizing behaviors:  Low self-esteem is related to antisocial behavior, conduct disorder, and delinquency.  Psychological Science, 16, 328-335.

Robins, R. W., Noftle, E. E., Trzesniewski, K. H., & Roberts, B. W. (2005).  Do people know how their personality has changed? Correlates of perceived and actual personality change in young adulthood.  Journal of Personality, 73, 489-521.

 

Roberts, B. W., O’Donnell, M., & Robins, R. W. (2004).  Goal and personality trait development in emerging adulthood.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 541-550.

 

Vazire, S., & Robins, R. W. (2004). Beyond the Justification Hypothesis: A broader theory of the evolution of self-consciousness.  Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60, 1271-1273.

 

Paulhus, D. L., Robins, R. W., Trzesniewski, K. H., & Tracy, J. L. (2004). Two replicable suppressor situations in personality research.  Multivariate Behavioral Research, 39, 303-328.

 

Trzesniewski, K. H., Robins, R. W., Roberts, B. W., & Caspi, A. (2004).  Personality and self-esteem development across the lifespan.  In P. T. Costa, Jr. and I. C. Siegler (Eds), Recent advances in psychology and aging (pp. 163-185).  Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

 

            Kwan, V. S. Y., John, O. P., Kenny, D. A., Bond, M. H., & Robins, R. W. (2004).  Reconceptualizing individual differences in self-enhancement bias with the Social Relations Model: An integration of social and personality perspectives. Psychological Review, 111, 94-110. [Awarded the “Theoretical Innovation Prize” from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology]

 

Robins, R. W., & Cooper, L. (2004).  Overview of the proceedings of the 2003 meeting of the Association for Research in Personality.  Journal of Research in Personality, 38, 1-2.

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2004). Keeping the self in self-conscious emotions: Further arguments for a theoretical model. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 171-177 [authors’ response]. 

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2004). Putting the self into self-conscious emotions: A theoretical model. Psychological Inquiry, 15, 103-125 [target article].

 

Robins, R. W., Mendelsohn, G. A., Connell, J. B., & Kwan, V. (2004).  Do people agree about the causes of behavior?  A Social Relations Analysis of behavior ratings and causal attributions.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 334-344.

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2004).  Show your pride: Evidence for a discrete emotion expression.  Psychological Science, 15, 194-197.

 

Roberts, B. W., & Robins, R. W. (2004). Person-environment fit and its implications for personality development: A longitudinal study.  Journal of Personality, 72, 89-110.

 

Tracy, J. L., Robins, R. W., & Gosling, S. D. (2004).  Exploring the roots of contemporary psychology: Using empirical indices to identify scientific trends.  In T. C. Dalton and R. B. Evans (Eds.), The life cycle of psychological ideas: Understanding prominence and the dynamics of intellectual change (pp. 105-130).  New York: Plenum.

 

Roberts, B. W., Robins, R. W., Caspi, A., & Trzesniewski, K. H. (2003).  Personality trait development in adulthood.  In J. T. Mortimer & M. Shanahan (Eds.), Handbook of the life course (pp. 579-595). New York: Plenum.

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2003). Does pride have a recognizable expression? In P. Ekman, J. J. Campos, R. J. Davidson, & F. B. M. de Waal (Eds.), Emotions inside out: 130 years after Darwin’s “The expression of emotions in man and animals.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1000, 313-315.

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2003). Does pride belong in the pantheon? Emotion Reports, 18, 7-8.

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2003).  “Death of a (narcissistic) salesman”: An integrative model of fragile self-esteem. Psychological Inquiry, 14, 57-62. [Comment]

 

Robins, R. W., & Tracy, J. L. (2003). Setting an agenda for a person-centered approach to personality development: Commentary. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 68, 110-122.

 

            Trzesniewski, K. H., Donnellan, M. B., & Robins, R. W. (2003). Stability of self-esteem across the lifespan.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 205-220.

 

Robins, R. W. (2002).  Overview of the proceedings of the 2002 meeting of the Association for Research in Personality.  Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 539-540.

 

Robins, R. W., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T. (2002).  It's not just who you're with, it's who you are: Personality and relationship experiences across multiple relationships.  Journal of Personality, 70, 925-964.

 

Robins, R. W., & Pals, J. L. (2002).  Implicit self-theories in the academic domain: Implications for goal orientation, attributions, affect, and self-esteem change.  Self and Identity, 1, 313-336.

 

Robins, R. W., Trzesniewski, K. H., Tracy, J. L., Gosling, S. D., & Potter, J. (2002).  Global self-esteem across the lifespan. Psychology and Aging, 17, 423-434.

 

Robins, R. W., & Beer, J. S. (2001). Positive illusions about the self: Short-term benefits and longterm costs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 340-352.

 

Robins, R. W., Tracy, J. L., Trzesniewski, K. H., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2001). Personality correlates of self-esteem.  Journal of Research in Personality, 35, 463-482.

 

Robins, R. W., Tracy, J. L., & Shaver, P. R. (2001).  Shamed into self-love: Dynamics, roots, and functions of narcissism.  Psychological Inquiry, 12, 230-236. [Comment]

 

Moffitt, T.E., Robins, R.W., & Caspi, A. (2001).  A couples analysis of partner abuse with implications for abuse prevention. Criminology and Public Policy, 1, 5-36. 

 

Robins, R. W., Fraley, R. C., Roberts, B. W., & Trzesniewski, K. H. (2001). A longitudinal study of personality change in young adulthood.  Journal of Personality, 69, 617-640.

 

Robins, R. W., & Paulhus, D. P. (2001). The character of self-enhancers: Implications for organizations.  In R. T. Hogan & B. W. Roberts (Eds.), Personality psychology in the workplace (pp. 193-219).  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

 

Robins, R. W., Hendin, H. M., & Trzesniewski, K. H. (2001). Measuring global self-esteem: Construct validation of a single item measure and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 151-161.

 

Connell, J. B., Mendelsohn, G. A., Robins, R. W., & Canny, J. (2001).  Effects of communication medium on interpersonal perceptions: Don’t hang up on the telephone yet!  Proceedings of the ACM Group Conference (Boulder, CO: September).  Sheridan Press.

 

Robins, R. W., Caspi, A., & Moffitt., T. (2000). Two personalities, one relationship: Both partners’ personality traits shape the quality of a relationship.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 251-259.

 

Roberts, B. W., & Robins, R. W. (2000).  Broad dispositions, broad aspirations: The intersection of personality and major life goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 1284-1296.

 

Robins, R. W., Gosling, S. D., & Craik, K. H. (2000).  Trends in psychology: An empirical issue.  American Psychologist, 55, 276-277.  [Response to comments]

 

Robins, R. W., Norem, J. K., & Cheek, J. M. (1999). Naturalizing the self.  In L. A. Pervin and O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (2nd Edition; pp. 443-477).  New York: Guilford.

 

Robins, R. W., Gosling, S. D., & Craik, K. H. (1999).  An empirical analysis of trends in psychology.  American Psychologist, 54, 117-128.

 

Robins, R. W., Gosling, S. D., & Craik, K. H. (1998, July-August). Psychological science at the crossroads. American Scientist, 86, 310-313.

 

Robins, R. W., Gosling, S., & Donahue, E. M. (1998).  Are personality judgments based on physical appearance consensual and accurate?  In J. Bermudez, B. de Raad, A.M. Perez, A. Sanchez-Elvira, & G. Van Heck (Eds.), Recent developments in personality psychology in Europe (pp. 70-75). Tilburg, Netherlands: Tilburg University Press.

 

Gosling, S. D., John, O. P., Craik, K. H., & Robins, R. W. (1998). Do people know how they behave? Self-reported act frequencies compared with on-line codings by observers. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1337-1449. [Reprinted in The Personality Puzzle: Readings in Theory and Research, Funder & Ozer (2000)]

 

John, O. P., & Robins, R. W. (1998).  Recent trends in Big Five research: Development, predictive validity, and personality types.  In J. Bermudez, B. de Raad, A.M. Perez, A. Sanchez-Elvira, & G. Van Heck (Eds.), Recent developments in personality psychology in Europe (pp. 6-16). Tilburg, Netherlands: Tilburg University Press.

 

Robins, R. W., John, O. P., & Caspi, A. (1998).  The typological approach to studying personality development.  In R. B. Cairns, L. Bergman, & Kagan, J. (Eds.), Method and models for studying the individual (pp. 135-160).  Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

 

Robins, R. W., & Hendin, H. M. (1997).  Helping adolescent coping research grow up: Review of “Stress, Coping, and Relationships in Adolescence.”  Contemporary Psychology, 42, 730-731.

 

Robins, R. W., & John, O. P. (1997).  The quest for self-insight: Theory and research on accuracy and bias in self-perception.  In R. T. Hogan, J. A. Johnson, & S. R. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology (pp. 649-679).  New York: Academic Press.

 

Robins, R. W., & John, O. P. (1997).  Effects of visual perspective and narcissism on self-perception: Is seeing believing?  Psychological Science, 8, 37-42.  [Reprinted in Perspectives: Personality (Zirkel, 1999)]

 

Robins, R. W., Spranca, M., & Mendelsohn, G. A. (1996).  The actor-observer effect revisited: Effects of individual differences and repeated social interactions on actor and observer attributions.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 375-389.

 

Robins, R. W., & John, O. P. (1996).  Toward a broader agenda for research on self and other perception.  Psychological Inquiry, 7, 279-287.

 

Robins, R. W., John, O. P., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (1996). Resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled boys: Three personality types in early adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 157-171.

 

John, O. P., & Robins, R. W. (1994).  Accuracy and bias in self-perception: Individual differences in self-enhancement and the role of narcissism.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 206-219.

 

Robins, R. W., & Craik, K. H. (1994).  A more appropriate test of the Kuhnian displacement thesis.  American Psychologist, 49, 815-816.  [Comment]

 

John, O. P., Caspi, A., Robins, R. W., Moffitt, T. E., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (1994).  The "little five":  Exploring the nomological network of the five-factor model of personality in adolescent boys.  Child Development, 65, 160-178.

 

John, O. P., & Robins, R. W. (1994).  Traits and types, dynamics and development: No doors should be closed in the study of personality.  Psychological Inquiry, 5, 137-142.  [Comment]

 

Robins, R. W., John, O. P., & Caspi, A. (1994).  Major dimensions of personality in early adolescence.  In C. F. Halverson, G. A. Kohnstamm, & R. P. Martin (Eds.), The developing structure of temperament and personality from infancy to adulthood (pp. 267-291).  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Robins, R. W., & Craik, K. H. (1993).  Is there a citation bias in the judgment and decision literature?  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 54, 225-244.

 

Block, J., & Robins, R. W. (1993).  A longitudinal study of consistency and change in self-esteem from early adolescence to early adulthood.  Child Development, 64, 909-923.

 

John, O. P., & Robins, R. W. (1993).  Determinants of interjudge agreement on personality traits: The Big Five domains, observability, evaluativeness, and the unique perspective of the self.  Journal of Personality, 61, 521-551.

 

John, O. P., & Robins, R. W. (1993).  Gordon Allport: Father and critic of the Five-Factor Model.  In K. H. Craik, R. T. Hogan, & R. N. Wolfe (Eds.), Fifty years of personality research (pp. 215-236).  New York: Plenum.

 

Donahue, E. M., Robins, R. W., Roberts, B. W., & John, O. P. (1993).  The divided self: Concurrent and longitudinal effects of psychological adjustment and social roles on self-concept differentiation.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 834-846.

 

 

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

 

            Lodi-Smith, J., Geise, A. C., Roberts, B. W., & Robins, R. W. (under review). Narrating personality change: Antecedents and consequences of personality change narratives in young adulthood.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

            Kwan, V. S. Y., John, O. P., Robins, R. W., & Kuang, L. L. (under review). Conceptualizing and assessing self-enhancement bias: A componential approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

            Sutin, A. R., & Robins, R. W. (under review). When the “I” looks at the “Me”: Autobiographical memory, visual perspective, and the self.  Personality and Social Psychology Review.

 

Noftle, E. E., & Robins, R. W. (under review).  How are actions and inhibited actions related to discrete emotions?  A functionalist perspective.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

            Orth, U., Robins, R. W., & Roberts, B. W. (under review).  Low self-esteem prospectively predicts depression in adolescence and young adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

 

 

BOOKS UNDER CONTRACT

 

            John, O. P., Robins, R. W., & Pervin, L. A. (Editors).  Handbook of personality: Theory and research (3rd Edition).  New York: Guilford.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007, August). Symposium chair, New directions in self-conscious emotion research.  Annual meeting of the American Psychological Association Convention. Washington, DC.