Courses Taught:
Psychology of Personality; Seminar in Positive Psychology
Research Interests:
Professor Larsen conducts research on emotion, primarily in terms of differences between people. Topics studied include mood variability, jealousy, attraction, depression, and strategies for the self-management of self-esteem and emotion. Methods of investigation have included psychophysiological techniques and experience sampling methods in addition to standard research methods. Other interests in circadian, and longer, rhythms in mood and social behavior have lead to a related interest in applied time-series statistics and the study of change over time.
Selected Publications:
Larsen, R. J., & Buss, D. M. (2007). Personality psychology: Domains of knowledge about human nature (3rd Edition). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Eid, M., & Larsen, R. J. (2007). The science of subjective well-being. New York: Guilford.
Larsen, R. J. (2009). Affect intensity. In M. R. Leary and R. H. Hoyle (Eds.), Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behaviors (pp. 241-254). New York: Guilford.
Larsen, R. J., & Augustine, A. A. (2008). Basic personality dispositions related to approach and avoidance: Extraversion/neuroticism, BIS/BAS, and positive/negative affect. In A. J. Elliot (Ed.), Handbook of approach and avoidance motivation (pp. 151-163).Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Augustine, A. A., Larsen, R. J., Walker, M. S., & Fisher, E. B. (2008). Personality predictors of the time course for lung cancer onset. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1448-1455.
Duchek, J. M., Balota, D. A., Storandt, M., & Larsen, R. J. (2007). The power of personality in discriminating between healthy aging and early stage Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Gereontology, 62B, 353-361.
Larsen, R. J. (2004). Emotion and cognition: The case of automatic vigilance, Psychological Science Agenda, 18(11). Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/science/psa/sb-larsen.html |
