Robert Frank Krueger is Hathaway Distinguished Professor of

Clinical Psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Psychology at the

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. He is known for his research on

personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals. It aims to show how people are individually different due to psychological forces. Its areas of focus include: * construction of a c ...

clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

quantitative psychology Quantitative psychology is a field of scientific study that focuses on the mathematical modeling, research design and methodology, and statistical analysis of psychological processes. It includes tests and other devices for measuring cognitive ab ...

developmental psychology Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...

personality disorders Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture ...

, behavioral genetics, and

psychopathology Psychopathology is the study of abnormal cognition, behaviour, and experiences which differs according to social norms and rests upon a number of constructs that are deemed to be the social norm at any particular era. Biological psychopatholo ...

. He is the co-

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of the '' Journal of Personality Disorders''. According to Krueger, the goal of his work is to "reduce the burden these problems place on society by working to understand why some people experience psychopathology, while others remain resilient." Krueger primarily studies the

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between personality disorders and

anxiety Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Anxiety is different than fear in that the former is defined as the anticipation of a future threat wh ...

, as well as twins,

heritability Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of ''variation'' in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population. The concept of h ...

personality development Personality development encompasses the dynamic construction and deconstruction of integrative characteristics that distinguish an individual in terms of interpersonal behavioral traits. Personality development is ever-changing and subject to cont ...

conduct disorder Conduct disorder (CD) is a mental disorder diagnosed in childhood or adolescence that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior that includes theft, lies, physical violence that may lead to destruction, and reckles ...

, and

antisocial personality disorder Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD or infrequently APD) is a personality disorder characterized by a long-term pattern of disregard of, or violation of, the rights of others as well as a difficulty sustaining long-term relationships. Lack ...

. Krueger received the

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's Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology in 2005. Krueger helped work on the section III diagnostic criteria of the Personality and Personality Disorders in the

DSM-5 The ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition'' (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'', the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric ...

. He is also one of the highest cited researchers according to the Web of Science. Robert attended the

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and completed his

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Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

Publications

* Krueger, R.F. (1999). ''The structure of common mental disorders''. Archives of General Psychiatry, 56, 921-926. * Krueger, R. F., Hicks, B. M., Patrick, C. J., Carlson, S. R., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2002). ''Etiologic connections among substance dependence, antisocial behavior, and personality: Modeling the externalizing spectrum''. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 411-424. * Krueger, R. F., & Markon, K. E. (2006). ''Reinterpreting comorbidity: A model-based approach to understanding and classifying psychopathology.'' Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2, 111-133. *Krueger, R. F., Markon, K. E., Patrick, C. J., Benning, S. D., & Kramer, M. (2007)''. Linking antisocial behavior, substance use, and personality: An integrative quantitative model of the adult externalizing spectrum.'' Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 645-666. *Krueger, R. F., & Eaton, N. (2010). ''Personality traits and the classification of mental disorders: Toward a more complete integration in DSM 5 and an empirical model of psychopathology.'' Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 1, 97-118. *Krueger, R. F., Eaton, N. R., Clark, L. A., Watson, D., Markon, K. E., Derringer, J., Skodol, A., & Livesley, W. J. (2011). ''Deriving an empirical structure of personality pathology for DSM-5. Journal of Personality Disorders,'' 25, 170-191. *Krueger, R. F., Derringer, J., Irons, D. E., & Iacono, W. G. (2010). ''Harsh discipline, childhood sexual assault, and MAOA genotype: An investigation of main and interactive effects on diverse clinical externalizing outcomes. Behavior Genetics'', 40, 639-648. *Krueger, R. F., Eaton, N. R., Keyes, K. M., Balsis, S., Skodol, A. E., Markon, K. W., Grant, B. F., & Hasin, D. S. (2012)''. An invariant dimensional liability model of gender differences in mental disorder prevalence: Evidence from a national sample''. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 282-288. * Krueger, R.F., A.G., Hobbs, M.J., Markon, K.E., Eaton, N.R., & Slade, T. (in press). ''The structure of psychopathology: toward an expanded quantitative empirical model''. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. * Krueger, R.F., Derringer, J., Markon, K.E., Watson, D. (2012). ''Initial construction of a maladaptive personality trait model and inventory for DSM-5''. Psychological Medicine. * Krueger, R.F., Fowles, D.C., Patrick, C.J, (2009). ''Triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy: developmental origins of disinhibition, boldness, and meanness''. Development and Psychopathology. * Krueger, R.F., Watson, D., Markon, K.E. (2005). ''Delineating the Structure of Normal and Abnormal Personality: An Integrative Hierarchical Approach''. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. * Krueger, R.F., Achenbach., T.M., Watson, D., Kotov, R. (2017). ''The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies''. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. * Krueger, R.F., Fraley, C., Robins, R.W. (2007). ''Handbook of research methods in personality psychology''. * Krueger, R.F., Benning, S.D., Patrick, C.J., Hicks, B.M., Blonigen, D.M. (2003) ''Factor structure of the psychopathic personality inventory: validity and implications for clinical assessment''. Psychological Assessment.

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