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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Phillip R. Shaver is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with extensive contributions to subfields including social psychology, clinical psychology, demography, sociology and political science, and safety research.

The main topics addressed in Shaver's work include attachment and relationship dynamics, family dynamics and relationships, grief, bereavement and mental health, child welfare and adoption, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychotherapy techniques and applications, and family support in illness.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shaver are:

  • Mario Mikulincer
  • Pehr Granqvist
  • Jude Cassidy
  • Jessica Stern
  • Tommie Forslund

Shaver has published extensively in well-known venues such as:

  • Attachment & Human Development
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Significant recent papers from Shaver's research include:

  • "Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues," 2021, Attachment & Human Development
  • "Attachment theory and religion," 2020, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Enhancing the "Broaden and Build" Cycle of Attachment Security in Adulthood: From the Laboratory to Relational Contexts and Societal Systems," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "An attachment perspective on loss and grief," 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Security Providing Leadership: A Job Resource to Prevent Employees' Burnout," 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

In recognition of professional contributions, Shaver was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process

    Cindy Hazan;Phillip Shaver

  • Self-report measurement of adult attachment: An integrative overview.

    Kelly A. Brennan;Catherine L. Clark;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Handbook of attachment : theory, research, and clinical applications

    Jude Cassidy;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes

    John P. Robinson;Phillip R. Shaver;Lawrence S. Wrightsman

  • Review of personality and social psychology

    Ladd Wheeler;Phillip Shaver

  • Emotion knowledge: further exploration of a prototype approach.

    Phillip Shaver;Judith Schwartz;Donald Kirson;Cary O'Connor

  • Attachment as an Organizational Framework for Research on Close Relationships

    Cindy Hazan;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related Strategies

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver;Dana Pereg

  • Adult Romantic Attachment: Theoretical Developments, Emerging Controversies, and Unanswered Questions

    R. Chris Fraley;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Intimacy as an interpersonal process

    Harry T. Reis;Phillip Shaver

  • Love and work: An attachment-theoretical perspective.

    Cindy Hazan;Phillip R. Shaver

  • The Attachment Behavioral System in Adulthood: Activation, Psychodynamics, and Interpersonal Processes.

    Mario Mikulincer;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Attachment-related psychodynamics

    Phillip R. Shaver;Mario Mikulincer

  • Dimensions of Adult Attachment, Affect Regulation, and Romantic Relationship Functioning

    Kelly A. Brennan;Phillip R. Shaver

  • Measures of social psychological attitudes

    John P. Robinson;Phillip R. Shaver

  • The Geographic Distribution of Big Five Personality Traits Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations

    David P. Schmitt;Jüri Allik;Robert R. McCrae;Verónica Benet-Martínez

  • Attachment Styles, Emotion Regulation, and Adjustment in Adolescence

    M. Lynne Cooper;Phillip R. Shaver;Nancy L. Collins

  • CHAPTER 1 – Criteria for Scale Selection and Evaluation

    John P. Robinson;Phillip R. Shaver;Lawrence S. Wrightsman

  • Measurement of individual differences in adolescent and adult attachment.

    Judith A. Crowell;R. Chris Fraley;Phillip R. Shaver

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Mikulincer
Mario Mikulincer Reichman University
Omri Gillath
Omri Gillath University of Kansas
R. Chris Fraley
R. Chris Fraley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jude Cassidy
Jude Cassidy University of Maryland, College Park
Baljinder K. Sahdra
Baljinder K. Sahdra Australian Catholic University
Tsachi Ein-Dor
Tsachi Ein-Dor Reichman University
Gail S. Goodman
Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis
Emilio Ferrer
Emilio Ferrer University of California, Davis
Bette L. Bottoms
Bette L. Bottoms University of Illinois at Chicago
Pehr Granqvist
Pehr Granqvist Stockholm University

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