Marvin Zuckerman

Professor 

Department of Psychology
Phone: (302) 831-8197: Office : (410) 398-8190: Home

Office: Room 214 Wolf Hall: 831-4621: Lab: (302) 831-3645: Fax 

Research Interests

Laboratory News:

Michael Kraft (B.A., University of Delaware) has successfully defended a thesis on "Perceived parental behavior of biological parents and step-parents reported by young adults and relationships between perceived parenting and personality."

Carolyn N. Johnson (M.A., University of Delaware) has successfully defended a dissertation on "Independent and interactive effects of personality and alcohol use on AIDs-related risky sexual behavior."

Marvin Zuckerman and D. Michael Kuhlman have developed a new "Alternative Five Factor" model of personality and a test to measure these five factors (Sociability, Neuroticism-Anxiety, Impulsive Sensation Seeking, Aggression-Hostility, and Activity): Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ) (Zuckerman, M., Kuhlman, D. M., Joireman, J., Teta, P., & Kraft, M. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 757-768). The test has been given to large normative samples of American and Japanese students and to special samples: Drug abusers, prostitutes, students engaged in various college team sports, and others. Copies of the questionnaire are available for interested researchers.

Recent Books and Articles

• Zuckerman, M. (1991). Psychobiology of Personality. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
• Zuckerman, M. (1994). Behavioral expressions and biosocial bases of personality. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Zuckerman, M. (1995). Good and bad humors: Biochemical bases of personality and its disorders. Psychological Science, 6, 325-332.

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