Robert Krueger, Ph.D Associate Professor Phone: (612) 624-8204 E-mail:  krueg038@umn.edu

Education

• 1996, Ph.D., Psychology,University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
• 1993, M.S., Psychology,University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
• 1991, B.A., Psychology,University of Wisconsin-Madison,WI

Statement of Interests

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.

Selected Publications

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

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., 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., 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., 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., 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.

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.

Krueger, R. F. (in press). Continuity of Axes I and II: Toward a unified model of personality, personality disorders, and clinical disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders. Also to be published in abbreviated form in Advancing the Research Agenda for DSM-V: I. Dimensional models of personality disorder. Edited by T. A. Widiger & E. Simonsen, Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Krueger, R. F., Markon, K. E., Patrick, C. J., & Iacono, W. G. (in press). Externalizing psychopathology in adulthood: A dimensional-spectrum conceptualization and its implications for DSM-V. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.