Phillip R. Shaver

Phillip R. Shaver is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. Shaver conducts research in two areas: social relationships and emotions. In the close relationships area, he has studied the application of Bowlby and Ainsworth's attachment theory to research on romantic love and couple communication, relationship loss and grieving, attachment-related mental processes. In the field of emotions, he has used a prototype methodology to map individuals' and cultures' cognitive representations of the emotion domain and everyday conceptions of emotions in various cultures. He has published numerous books, including Handbook of Attachment, and over 400 journal articles and book chapters.

Shaver is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science and is past president of the International Association for Relationship Research, from which he received the Distinguished Career Award. He has also received a Distinguished Career Awards from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Her earned his Ph.D. at University of Michigan.