M. Lynne Cooper

     
Institution
University of Missouri, Columbia

Current Position
Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Psychology from University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987

Research Interests
Applied Social Psychology
Emotion
Gender
Health
Sexuality/Sexual Orientation

 
M. Lynne Cooper
Department of Psychological Sciences
University of Missouri-Columbia
105 McAlester Hall
Columbia, Missouri 65211
U.S.A.

Home Page
Phone: (573) 882-2365
Fax: (573) 882-7710


M. Lynne Cooper
Some of my research interests include: cognitive and motivational underpinnings of risk-taking behavior; stress, coping and health behaviors; affect regulation; causal and noncausal models of relationships between and among risk-taking behaviors; and gender differences in the above processes.

I am currently working on three inter-related projects focusing on the psychosocial antecedents of and inter-relationships among health risk behaviors, especially alcohol use and risky sexual behavior.


  • Agocha, V.B., & Cooper, M.L. (1999). Risk perceptions and safer-sex intentions: Does a partner's physical attractiveness undermine the use of risk-relevant information? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 746-759.
  • 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., Agocha, V.B., & Powers, A.M. (1999). Motivations for condom use: Do pregnancy prevention goals undermine disease prevention among heterosexual adults? Health Psychology, 18, 464-474.
  • 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. (Ed.). (2002). Personality and close relationships [Special issue]. Journal of Personality, 70(6).
  • 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., & Orcutt, H.K. (1997). Drinking and sexual experience on first dates among adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 191-202.
  • Cooper, M.L., Shapiro, C.M., & Powers, A.M. (1998). Motivations for sex and risky sexual behavior among adolescents and young adults: A functional perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1528-1558. Lead article.
  • Cooper, M.L., Shaver, P.R., & Collins, N.L. (1998). Attachment styles, emotion regulation, and adjustment in adolescence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1380-1397.
  • Cooper, M.L., & Sheldon, M.S. (2002). Seventy years of research on personality and close relationships: Substantive and methodological trends over time. Journal of Personality, 70, 783-812.
  • 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.
  • Huselid, R.F., & Cooper, M..L. (1994). Gender roles as mediators of sex differences in expressions of pathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103, 595-603. Lead Article.

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