M. Lynne Cooper is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri Columbia. She is a social-personality psychologist whose research focuses broadly on risk-taking and adjustment among adolescents and young adults, with particular emphasis on (1) elucidating the roles of personality, motivation, and emotion-regulation in risk-taking, and (2) understanding the sources of covariation among risky behaviors, especially between alcohol use and risky sexual behaviors.
Early Life and Educational Background
Cooper was born in Louisville, KY, on September 20, 1950. She received a BA in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974, and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from California State University, San Jose, in 1978. She earned her PhD in social/personality psychology in 1987 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was co-mentored by Elliot Aronson and David Harrington.
Professional Career
Cooper held a research scientist...
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Selected Bibliography
Collins, N. L., Cooper, M. L., Albino, A. W., & Allard, L. (2002). Psychosocial vulnerability from adolescence to adulthood: A prospective study of attachment style differences in relationship functioning and partner choice. Journal of Personality, 70, 965–1008.
Cooper, M. L. (1994). Motivations for alcohol use among adolescents: Development and validation of a four-factor model. Psychological Assessment, 6, 117–128.
Cooper, M. L. (2002). Alcohol use and risky sexual behavior among college students and youth: Evaluating the evidence. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, (Suppl 14), 101–117.
Cooper, M. L. (2006). Does drinking promote risky sexual behavior? A complex answer to a simple question. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 19–23.
Cooper, M. L. (2010). Toward a person X situation model of sexual risk-taking behaviors: Illuminating the conditional effects of traits across sexual situations and relationship contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 319–341.
Cooper, M. L., & Larsen, R. (2014). APA handbook of personality and social psychology: v4 personality processes and individual differences (Series Editors: Phil Shaver & Mario Mikulincer). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Cooper, M. L., Frone, M. R., Russell, M., & Mudar, P. (1995). Drinking to regulate positive and negative emotions: A motivational model of alcohol use. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 990–1005.
Cooper, M. L., Shapiro, C. M., & Powers, A. M. (1998a). Motivations for sex and risky sexual behavior among adolescents and young adults: A functional perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1528–1558.
Cooper, M. L., Shaver, P. R., & Collins, N. L. (1998b). Attachment styles, emotion regulation, and adjustment in adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1380–1397.
Cooper, M. L., Agocha, V. B., & Sheldon, M. S. (2000). A motivational perspective on risky behaviors: The role of personality and affect regulatory processes. Journal of Personality, 68, 1059–1088.
Cooper, M. L., Wood, P. K., Orcutt, H. K., & Albino, A. W. (2003). Personality and the predisposition to engage in risky or problem behaviors during adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 390–410.
Cooper, M. L., Krull, J. L., Agocha, V. B., Flanagan, M., Grabe, S. A., Orcutt, H. K., Jackson, M., & Dermen, K. H. (2008). Motivational pathways to alcohol use and abuse among Black and White adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 485–501.
Cooper, M. L., Barber, L., Zhaoyang, R., & Talley, A. E. (2011). Motivational pursuits in the context of human sexual relationships. Journal of Personality, 79(6), 1031–1066.
Cooper, M. L., Kuntsche, E., Levitt, A., Barber, L. L., & Wolf, S. (2016). A motivational perspective on substance use: Review of theory and research. In K. J. Sher (Ed.), Oxford handbook of substance use disorders (pp. 375–421). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Cooper, M.L. (2019). Cooper, M. Lynne. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_409-1
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