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M. Brent Donnellan

M. Brent Donnellan

Chair, Department of Psychology

An expert in personality traits, personality assessment, personality development, and research practices in the psychological sciences.

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Area of Expertise

Relationships Personality Disorders Personalities Temperament

Biography

Donnellan investigates research questions at the intersections of personality psychology, developmental psychology, and psychological assessment. His current research efforts focus on the assessment of well-being, personality trait development, and methodological reform in psychological science. He currently serves as the Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Research in Personality.

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Education

University of California, Davis.: Ph.D., Human Development | 2001

University of California, Davis.: B.S., Psychology | 1994

Selected Press

Nature or Nurture? It’s All About the Message

MSU Today | 2014-09-03

The research started as part of Schroder’s honors thesis as an undergraduate at MSU working in the Clinical Psychophysiology Lab directed by Jason Moser, MSU assistant professor. Moser co-authored the study along with Tim Moran, an MSU graduate student in cognitive psychology, and Brent Donnellan, a former MSU professor who now works at Texas A&M University...

Spouses do not grow more alike, study finds

ScienceDaily | 2010-08-25

The research team also included M. Brent Donnellan and S. Alexandra Burt from the MSU Department of Psychology and William G. Iacono and Matthew McGue from the University of Minnesota...