Early Life and Educational Background
Robin Edelstein was born on January 13, 1975, in Los Angeles, California.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997, and her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of California, Davis, in 2005. Her Ph.D. was completed under the supervision of Phillip Shaver and Gail Goodman, and her dissertation focused on the implications of individual differences in adult attachment for attention to and memory for emotional experiences and information. In particular, she was interested in why individuals with an avoidant attachment style (i.e., those who are uncomfortable with closeness) have difficulty remembering potentially threatening information and the mechanisms that might contribute to these difficulties. After completing her Ph.D., Edelstein spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California,...
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Chopik, W. J., Edelstein, R. S., & Grimm, K. J. (in press). Longitudinal changes in attachment orientation over a 59-year period. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Edelstein, R. S. (2006). Attachment and emotional memory: Investigating the source and extent of avoidant memory deficits. Emotion, 6, 340–345.
Edelstein, R. S., & Chin, K. (in press). Hormones and close relationship processes: Neuroendocrine bases of partnering and parenting. In O. C. Schultheiss & P. H. Mehta (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of social neuroendocrinology. Abingdon: Routledge.
Edelstein, R. S., & Gillath, O. (2008). Avoiding interference: Adult attachment and emotional processing biases. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 171–181.
Edelstein, R. S., Alexander, K. W., Shaver, P. R., Schaaf, J. M., Quas, J. A., Lovas, G. S., & Goodman, G. S. (2004). Adult attachment style and parental responsiveness during a stressful event. Attachment and Human Development, 6, 31–52.
Edelstein, R. S., Ghetti, S., Quas, J. A., Goodman, G. S., Alexander, K. W., Redlich, A. D., & Cordon, I. M. (2005). Individual differences in emotional memory: Adult attachment and long-term memory for child sexual abuse. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1537–1548.
Edelstein, R. S., Yim, I. S., & Quas, J. A. (2010). Narcissism predicts cortisol reactivity to a psychosocial stressor in men. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 565–572.
Edelstein, R. S., Chopik, W. J., & Kean, E. L. (2011). Sociosexuality moderates the association between relationship status and testosterone in men and women. Hormones and Behavior, 60, 248–255.
Edelstein, R. S., Kean, E. L., & Chopik, W. J. (2012a). Women with an avoidant attachment style show attenuated estradiol responses to emotionally intimate stimuli. Hormones and Behavior, 61, 167–175.
Edelstein, R. S., Newton, N. J., & Stewart, A. J. (2012b). Narcissism in midlife: The developmental course and correlates of women’s narcissistic personality traits. Journal of Personality, 80, 1179–1204.
Edelstein, R. S., van Anders, S. M., Chopik, W. J., Goldey, K. L., & Wardecker, B. M. (2014). Dyadic associations between testosterone and relationship quality in couples. Hormones and Behavior, 65, 401–407.
Edelstein, R. S., Chopik, W. J., Saxbe, D. E., Wardecker, B. M., Moors, A. C., & LaBelle, O. P. (2017). Prospective and dyadic associations between expectant parents’ prenatal hormone changes and postpartum parenting outcomes. Developmental Psychobiology, 59, 77–90.
Levine, L. J., & Edelstein, R. S. (2009). Emotion and memory narrowing: A review and goal-relevance approach. Cognition & Emotion, 23, 833–875.
Saxbe, D. E., Edelstein, R. S., Lyden, H., Wardecker, B. M., Chopik, W. J., & Moors, A. C. (2017). Fathers’ decline in testosterone and hormonal synchrony with partner testosterone during pregnancy predicts greater postpartum relationship investment. Hormones and Behavior, 90, 39–47.
Wardecker, B. M., Smith, L. K., Edelstein, R. S., & Loving, T. J. (2015). Intimate relationships then and now: How old hormonal processes are influenced by our modern psychology. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 1, 150–176.
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Edelstein, R. (2019). Edelstein, Robin S.. 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_435-1
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