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Robert Krueger

Robert Krueger

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
krueg038@umn.edu

Robert F. Krueger, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Personality Psychology, and Differential Psychology / Behavior Genetics in the Department of Psychology, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Child Psychology in the Institute of Child Development, at the University Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received the 2005 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Individual Differences, a 2003 Early Career Award from the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, and also holds a McKnight Presidential Fellowship from the University of Minnesota Dr. Krueger obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and completed his clinical internship at Brown University He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology and the Journal of Personality, and has served on the editorial boards of a variety of other journals. His research interests reflect the breadth of human individual differences, but an important thread of his research continues to focus on pulling together ideas in the study of personality, psychopathology, personality disorders, behavior genetics, and quantitative methods to work toward an empirically-based model of personality and psychopathology. He served as a Core Working Group Member of the American Psychiatric Association / National Institute of Mental Health DSM/ICD Research Planning Conference on Personality Disorders.



Representative Publications
Johnson, W., & Krueger, R.F. (2007). The psychological benefits of vigorous exercise: A study of discordant MZ twin pairs. Twin Research & Human Genetics, 10(2), 275-283.

Johnson, W., & Krueger, R.F. (2007). The psychological benefits of vigorous exercise: A study of discordant MZ twin pairs. Twin Research & Human Genetics, 10(2), 275-283.

Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2006). How money buys happiness: Genetic and environmental processes linking finances and life satisfaction Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 680-691.

Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Higher perceived life control decreases genetic variance in physical health: Evidence from a national twin study. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 88(1), 165-173.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Predictors of physical health: Toward an integrated model of genetic and environmental antecedents. Journal of Gerontology, 60B(1), 42-52.
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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005). Genetic effects on physical health: Lower at higher income levels. Behavior Genetics, 35(5), 579-590..
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Markon, K., Krueger, R. F., & Watson, D. (2005). Delineating the structure of normal and abnormal personality: An integrative hierarchical approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 139-157.

Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2004). Genetic and environmental structure of adjectives describing the domains of the big five model of personality: A nationwide US twin study. Journal of Research in Personality, 38(5), 448-472.
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Krueger, R. F., Nichol, P. E., Hicks, B. M., Markon, K. E., Patrick, C. J., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2004). Using latent trait modeling to conceptualize an alcohol problems continuum. Psychological Assessment, 16, 107-119.

Krueger, R. F., Chentsova>-Dutton, Y. E., Markon, K. E., Goldberg, D., & Ormel, J. (2003). A cross cultural study of the structure of comorbidity among common psychopathological syndromes in the general health care setting. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 437-447.

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., Hicks, B. M., & McGue, M. (2001). Altruism and antisocial behavior: Independent tendencies, unique personality correlates, distinct etiologies. Psychological Science, 12, 397-402.

Krueger, R. F. (2000). Phenotypic, genetic, and non-shared environmental parallels in the structure of personality: A view from the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 1057-1067.

Krueger, R. F. (1999). The structure of common mental disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 56, 921-926.

South, S.C., & Krueger, R.F. (Date currently unavailable). Marital quality moderates genetics and environmental influences on the internalizing spectrum. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.