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Avshalom Caspi August 10 1 Avshalom Caspi [email protected] [email protected] My research spans the fields of psychology, epidemiology, and genetics. My current work is concerned with three broad questions: 1) How do genetic differences between people shape the way they respond to their environments? (2) How do childhood experiences shape the course of health inequalities across the life span? (3) What are the best ways to assess and measure personality differences between people? Date of Birth: May 5, 1960 Jerusalem, Israel Education: Ph.D. Cornell University, 1986 M.A. Cornell University, 1983 B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz, 1981 Current Positions: Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Professor of Personality Development MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, England Research Interests: Behavioural genetics Life-span developmental psychology Children’s mental health Personality assessment Health psychology Longitudinal methodology Personal Interests: Traveling; cooking; photography; playing basketball; hiking; farming Bibliometrics: Times cited=14,450, Average citations per item=66, H-index =65 January 2010, ISI Web of Science Avshalom Caspi August 10 2 POSITIONS HELD 1995-2007 Faculty member, NSF National Consortium on Violence Research, Carnegie-Mellon University 1995-2007 Faculty member, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1991 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, UC Berkeley 1989-2007 Assistant, Associate (1991), Full (1995) Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1986-1989 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard University 1986 Research Associate, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1985 Research Associate, Berlin Longitudinal Study on Youth Development, Technical University of Berlin, West Germany HONORS AND AWARDS 2008 Rema Lapouse Award for Significant Contributions to the Scientific Understanding of Epidemiology and Control of Mental Disorders, American Public Health Association (with T.E. Moffitt) 2008 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD) (with T.E. Moffitt) 2007 Mortimer D. Sackler MD Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Developmental Psychobiology, by the faculties of the Sackler Institutes of Developmental Psychobiology at Columbia University Medical Center and at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University 2007 Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science 2006 ISI Highly Cited Research (field: Psychology/Psychiatry). ISI identifies the “top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence on their field as measured by citations” (http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/home.cgi). 2006 Elected Fellow of the British Academy 2006 Royal Society - Wolfson Research Merit Award 2005 Elected Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association 2003 Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association (book award received for Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour) 2002 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) 2002 John P. Hill Memorial Award, Society for Research in Adolescence (with T.E. Moffitt) 1998 Selected as Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto 1995 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (Developmental Psychology), American Psychological Association 1995 Robert L. Fantz Award, American Psychological Foundation 1995-1996 University of Wisconsin Vilas Foundation Associate 1994 Margaret Bernauer Research Award, Wisconsin Psychological Association 1993-1998 University of Wisconsin H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow 1990-1992 National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship 1984 Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Graduate Fellowship 1983 Foundation for Child Development, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship 1981 Highest Honors in Major, UC-Santa Cruz Avshalom Caspi August 10 3 PUBLICATIONS 1984 Caspi, A. (1984). Contact hypothesis and inter-age attitudes: A field study of cross-age contact. Social Psychology Quarterly, 47, 74-81. 1985 Elder, G. H., Jr., Van Nguyen, T., & Caspi, A. (1985). Linking family hardship to children's lives. Child Development, 56, 361-375. PMID:3987413 1986 Caspi, A., & Elder, G. H., Jr. (1986). Life satisfaction in old age: Linking social psychology and history. Psychology and Aging, 1, 18-26. PMID:3267374 Cornelius, S. W., & Caspi, A. (1986). Self-perceptions of intellectual control and aging. Educational Gerontology, 12, 345-357. Elder, G. H., Jr., Caspi, A., & Van Nguyen, T. (1986). Resourceful and vulnerable children: Family influences in stressful times. In R. Silbereisen, K. Eyferth, & G. Rudinger (Eds.), Development as action in context: Problem behavior and normal youth development. New York: Springer. [Reprinted in R. D. Parke & E. M. Hetherington (Eds.), Contemporary readings in child development. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.] Elder, G. H., Jr., Caspi, A., & Downey, G. (1986). Problem behavior and family relationships: Life course and intergenerational themes. In A. Sorensen, F. Weinert, & L. Sherrod (Eds.), Human development and the life course: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1987 Caspi, A. (1987). Personality in the life course. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 1203-1213. PMID:3694456 Caspi, A., Bolger, N., & Eckenrode, J. (1987). Linking person and context in the daily stress process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 184-195. PMID:3820071 Caspi, A., Elder, G. H., Jr., & Bem, D. J. (1987). Moving against the world: Life-course patterns of explosive children. Developmental Psychology, 23, 308-313. [Reprinted in J.M. Jenkins, K. Oatley & N. L. Stein (Eds). Human emotions: A reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.] Cornelius, S. W., & Caspi, A. (1987). Everyday problem solving in adulthood and old age. Psychology and Aging, 2, 144-153. PMID:3268204 Avshalom Caspi August 10 4 1988 Caspi, A., Elder, G. H., Jr., & Bem, D. J. (1988). Moving away from the world: Life-course patterns of shy children. Developmental Psychology, 24, 824-831. [Reprinted in S. Chess, A. Thomas, & M. E. Hertzig (Eds.), Annual progress in child psychiatry and child development (Vol. 22). New York: Brunner-Mazel, 1990.] Elder, G. H., Jr., & Caspi, A. (1988). Economic stress: Developmental perspectives. Journal of Social Issues, 44, 24-25. Bolger, N., Caspi, A., Downey, G. & Moorehouse, M. (Eds.) (1988). Persons in context: Developmental processes. New York: Cambridge University Press. Bolger, N., Caspi, A., Downey, G., & Moorehouse, M. (1988). Development in context: Research perspectives. In N. Bolger, A. Caspi, G. Downey, & M. Moorehouse (Eds.), Persons in context: Development processes. New York: Cambridge University Press. Elder, G. H., Jr., & Caspi, A. (1988). Human development and social change: An emerging perspective on the life course. In N. Bolger, A. Caspi, G. Downey, & M. Moorehouse (Eds.), Persons in context: Developmental processes. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Reprinted in K. U. Mayer (Ed.), Lebensverlaufe und Sozialer Wandel. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990.] Caspi, A., & Elder, G. H., Jr. (1988). Childhood precursors of the life course: Early personality and life disorganization. In E. M. Hetherington, R. M. Lerner, & M. Perlmutter (Eds.), Child development in life-span perspective. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Caspi, A., & Elder, G. H., Jr. (1988). Emergent family patterns: The intergenerational construction of problem Behavior and relationships. In R. A. Hinde & J. Stevenson-Hinde (Eds.), Relationships within families: Mutual influences. New York: Oxford University Press. Elder, G. H., Jr., Caspi, A., & Burton, L. M. (1988). Life transitions in developmental perspective: Sociological and historical insights on adolescence. In M. Gunnar & W. A. Collins (Eds.), Minnesota symposia on child psychology (Vol. 21). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1989 Caspi, A., Bem, D. J., Elder, G. H., Jr. (1989). Continuities and consequences of interactional styles across the life course. Journal of Personality, 57, 375-406. PMID:2769561 Caspi, A. (1989). On the continuities and consequences of personality: A life-course perspective. In D. M. Buss & N. Cantor (Eds.), Personality psychology: Recent trends and emerging directions. New York: Springer. Cornelius, S. W., Kenney, S., & Caspi, A. (1989). Academic and everyday intelligence in adulthood: Conceptions of self and ability tests. In J. Sinnott (Ed.), Everyday problem solving: Theory and application. New York: Praeger. Avshalom Caspi August 10 5 1990 Caspi, A., & Herbener, E. S. (1990). Continuity and change: Assortative marriage and the consistency of personality in adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 250-258. PMID:2319443 Caspi, A., Elder, G. H., Jr., & Herbener, E. (1990). Childhood personality and the prediction of life-course patterns. In L. N. Robins & M. Rutter (Eds.), Straight and devious pathways from childhood to adult life. New York: Cambridge University Press. Caspi, A., & Bem, D. J. (1990). Personality continuity and change across the life course. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research.