• Professor, Chair, Psychology

Randy Larsen

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• Ph.D. in Personality Psychology at University of Illinois-Champaign
• M.A. in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University
• B.A. in Psychology at Loras College

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Holiday stress Psychology research offers 20 strategies for staying upbeat, coping with stress during holidays Dec. 6, 2006 -- While it's known as "the season to be jolly," the holidays can be a time of stress, conflict, and pressure for many people. Some people feel overwhelmed and become depressed during the holidays. Don't dismay. There are strategies for coping with the emotional stresses and strains of the holiday season. More...

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WUSTL's Randy Larsen offers tips on beating holiday stress St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec. 15, 2004 -- When the holidays aren't as happy as they're supposed to be, counselors call the mental state - unofficially - the holiday blues. The generic moniker doesn't describe a clinical condition, but one that's all too common. Randy Larsen, head of the Department of Psychology at Washington University, prefers to frame the malady as holiday stress rather than blues. "The people who get in trouble around the holidays are people who do too much, expecting too much of themselves and others," he said.

Publications - Journals

Judge, T., & Larsen, R. J. (in press). Dispositional sources of job satisfaction: A review and theoretical extension. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Buss, D. M., Shackelford, T. K, , Kirkpatrick, L. A., & Larsen, R. J. (in press). A half century of mate preferences: The cultural evolution of values. Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Larsen, R. J. (2000). Toward a science of mood regulation. Psychological Inquiry, 11,129-141.

Larsen, R. J. (2000). Maintaining hedonic balance: Reply to commentaries. Psychological Inauiry, 11, 218-225.

Amdur, R. L., Larsen, R., & Liberzon, I. (2000). Emotional processing in combat-related post traumatic stress disorder: A comparison with traumatized and normal controls. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 13, 219-238.

Larsen, R. J. (2000). Emotion and personality: Introduction to the special symposium. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 651-654.

Zelenski, J. M., & Larsen, R. J. (2000). The distribution of emotions in everyday life: A state and trait perspective from experience sampling data. Journal of Research in Personality, 34, 178-197.

Zelenski, J. M., & Larsen, R. J. (1999). Susceptibility to affect: A comparison of three personality taxonomies. Journal of Personality, 67, 761-791.

Shackelford, T. K. & Larsen, R. J. (1999). Facial attractiveness and physical health. Evolution and Human Behavior, 20, 71-76.

Rusting, C. L., & Larsen, R. J. (1999). Clarifying Gray's theory of personality: A response to Pickering, Corr, and Gray. Personality and Individual Differences, 26, 367-372.

Casada, J. H., Amdur, R., Larsen, R., & Liberzon, I. (1998). Psychophysiological responsivity in post traumatic stress disorder: Generalized hyperresponsiveness vs. trauma specificity. Biological Psychiatry, 44, 1037-1044.

Rusting, C. L., & Larsen, R. J. (1998). Personality and cognitive processing of affective information. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 200-213

Rusting, C. L., & Larsen, R. J. (1998). Diurnal patterns of unpleasant mood: Associations with neuroticism, depression, and anxiety. Journal of Personality. , 66, 85-103.

Schackelford, T. K. & Larsen, R. J. (1997). Facial asymmetry as an indicator of psychological, emotional, and physiological distress. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 72, 456-466

Rusting, C. L., & Larsen, R. J.(1997). Extraversion, neuroticism, and susceptibility to positive and negative affect: A test of two theoretical models. Personality and Individual Differences, 22, 607-612.

Buss, D. M., Larsen, R. J., & Westen, D. (1996). Sex differences in jealousy: Not gone, not forgotten, and not explained by alternative hypotheses. Psychological Science, 7, 373-375

Cutler, S. E., Bunce, S. C., & Larsen, R. J. (1996). Repressive coping style and its relation to daily emotional experience and remembered emotional experience. Journal of Personality, 64, 379-405.

Larsen, R. J., Billings, D., & Cutler, S. (1996). Affect intensity and individual differences in cognitive style. Journal of Personality, 64, 185-208.

Larsen, R. J., & Cutler, S. (1996). The complexity of individual emotional lives: A within-subject analysis of affect structure. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 15, 206-230.

Larsen, R. J. & Schackelford, T. K. (1996). Gaze avoidance: Personality and social judgments of people who avoid direct face-to-face contact. Personality and Individual Differnces, 21, 907-917.

Bunce, S. C., Larsen, R. J., & Peterson, C. (1995). Life after trauma: Personality and daily life experiences of traumatized persons. Journal of Personality, 63, 165-188.

Cruz, M. & Larsen, R. J. (1995). Personality correlates of individual differences in electrodermal lability. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 23, 93-104.

Rusting, C., & Larsen, R. J. (1995). Moods as sources of stimulation: Relationships between personality and desired mood states. Personality and Individual Differences, 18, 321-329.

Bunce, S. C., Larsen, R, J., & Cruz, M. (1993). Individual differences in the excitation transfer effect. Personality and Individual Differences, 15, 507-514.

Buss, D. M., Larsen, R. J., Semmelroth, J., & Westin, D. (1992). Sex differences in jealousy: Evolution, physiology, and psychology. Psychological Science, 3, 251-255.

Larsen, R. J. (1992). Neuroticism and selective encoding and recall of symptoms: Evidence from a combined concurrent-retrospective study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 480-488.

Larsen, R. J., & Diener, E. (1992). Problems and promises with the circumplex model of emotion. Review of Personality and Social Psychology, 13, 25-59.

Larsen, R. J., Kasimatis, M., & Frey, K. (1992). Facilitating the furrowed brow: An unobtrusive test of the facial feedback hypothesis applied to unpleasant affect. Cognition and Emotion, 6, 321-338.

Larsen, R. J. & Kasimatis, M. (1991). Day-to-day physical symptoms: Individual differences in the occurrence, duration, and emotional concomitants of minor daily illnesses. Journal of Personality, 59, 387-423.

Larsen, R. J., & Ketelaar, T. (1991). Personality and susceptibility to positive and negative emotional states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 61, 132-140.

Larsen, R. J., & Sinnett, L. (1991). Meta-analysis of manipulation validity: Factors affecting the Velten mood induction procedure. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17, 323-334.

Larsen, R. J. & Zarate, M. (1991). Extending reducer/augmenter theory into the emotion domain: The role of emotion in regulating stimulation level. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 713-722.

Fricker, J., & Larsen, R. J. (1990). Safety belts and turn signals: Driver disposition and the law. Transportation Research Record, 1210, 47-52.

Larsen, R. J., & Kasimatis, M. (1990). Individual differences in entrainment of mood to the weekly calendar. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 164-171.

Larsen, R. J., & Ketelaar, T. (1989). Extraversion, neuroticism, and susceptibility to positive and negative mood induction procedures. Personality and Individual Differences, 10, 1221-1228.

Larsen, R. J., & Cowan, G. S. (1988). Internal focus of attention and depression: A study of daily experience. Motivation and Emotion, 12, 237-249.

Larsen, R. J., & Diener, E. (1987). Affect intensity as an individual difference characteristic: A review. Journal of Research in Personality, 21, 1-39.

Larsen, R. J. (1987). The stability of mood variability: A spectral analytic approach to daily mood assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52, 1195-1204.

Larsen, R. J., Diener, E., & Cropanzano, R. (1987). Cognitive operations associated with individual differences in affect intensity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 767-774.

Larsen, R. J. (1987). Depression in the elderly. The Later Years, 1, 1-2.

Emmons, R. A., Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1986). Choice and avoidance of everyday situations and affect congruence: Two models of reciprocal interactionism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 815-826.

Larsen, R. J., & Baggs, D. (1986). Some psychophysical and personality correlates of the Strelau Temperament Inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 7, 561-565.

Larsen, R. J., Diener, E., & Emmons, R. A. (1986). Affect intensity and reactions to daily life events. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 803-814.

Larsen, R. J., & Seidman, E. (1986). Gender schema theory and sex-role inventories: Some conceptual and psychometric considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 205-211.

Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The Satisfaction With Life Scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49, 71-75.

Diener, E., Larsen, R. J., Levine, S., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). Frequency and intensity: Dimensions underlying positive and negative affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 1253-1265.

Diener, E., Sandvik, E., Larsen, R. J. (1985). Age and sex effects for affect intensity. Developmental Psychology, 21, 542-546.

Emmons, R. A., Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1985). Choice of situations and congruence models of interactionism. Personality and Individual Differences, 6, 693-702.

Larsen, R. J., & Diener, E. (1985). A multitrait-multimethod examination of affect structure: Hedonic level and emotional intensity. Personality and Individual Differences, 6, 631-636.

Larsen, R. J. (1985). Individual differences in circadian activity rhythms and personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 6, 305-311.

Larsen, R. J., Diener, E., & Emmons, R. A. (1985). An evaluation of subjective well-being measures. Social Indicators Research, 17, 1-18.

Sandvik, E., Diener, E., & Larsen, R. J. (1985). Opponent process theory and emotional response intensity. Motivation and Emotion, 9, 407-418.

Diener, E. & Larsen, R. J. (1984). Temporal stability and cross-situational consistency of affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 871-883.

Diener, E., Larsen, R. J., & Emmons, R. A. (1984). Person x situation interactions: Choice of situations and congruence response models. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 580-592.

Larsen, R. J. (1984). Psychology of personality: A structured learning workbook. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education and Public Service.

Lamiell, J. T., Foss, M. A., Larsen, R. J., & Hempel, A. M. (1983). Studies in intuitive personology from an idiothetic point of view: Implications for personality theory. Journal of Personality, 51, 438-467.

Publications - Book Chapters:

Larsen, R. J., & Diener, E. (invited chapter). Individual differences and measurement issues. In R. Lord, R., Klimoski, & R. Kanfer (Eds.), Emotions and work.

Larsen, R. J. (2000). Personality processes. Encyclopedia of stress, Vol. 3, (pp 149-155), In G. Fink (Ed.). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Larsen, R. J., & Fredrickson, B. L. (1999). Measurement issues in emotion research. In D. Kahneman, E. Diener, and N. Schwarz (Eds.), Understanding quality of Life: Scientific Perspectives on enjoyment and suffering. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Apter, M. J., & Larsen, R. J. (1993). Sixty consecutive days: Telic and paratelic states in everyday life. In J. H. Kerr, S. Murgatroyd, and M. J. Apter (Eds.), Advances in reversal theory (pp. 107-122). Amsterdam: Swetson-Zeitlinger Press.

Larsen, R. J. (1993). Strategies and tactics for person-situation interaction. In J. Hettema and I. Deary (Eds.), Foundations of personality (pp. 165-173). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.

Diener, E. & Larsen, R. J. (1993). The experience of emotional well-being. In M. Lewis and J. M. Haviland (Eds.), Handbook of emotions.(pp. 405-415). New York: Guilford.

Larsen, R. J. (1991). Personality and emotion. In V. Derlega, B. Winstead, and W. Jones (Eds.), Contemporary research in personality (pp. 407-432). Chicago: Nelson- Hall.

Larsen, R. J. (1990). Spectral analysis of psychological data. In A. Von Eye (Ed.), Statistical methods in longitudinal research, Volume II: Time series and categorical longitudinal data (pp. 319-349). Boston: Academic Press.

Larsen, R. J. (1989). A process approach to personality: Utilizing time as a facet of data. In D. Buss and N. Cantor (Eds.), Personality psychology: Recent trends and emerging directions (pp. 177-193). New York: Springer-Verlag.

Publications - Book Reviews:

Larsen, R. J. & Z. Prizmic-Larsen. (2000). Marrying a culture when you marry a person. Contemporary Psychology. 44, 538-540.

Larsen, R. J. (1996). A report on the 'decade of emotion.' Contemporary Psychology, 40, 1054-1056.

Larsen, R. J. (1995). On teaching what we do: Review of three personality psychology textbooks. Contemporary Psychology, 40, 40-41.

Larsen, R. J. (1987). Review of "Personality dimensions and arousal," by J. Strelau & H. J. Eysenck. Biological Psychology, 25, 191-193.

Published Conference Proceedings:

Larsen, R. J., Cruz, M., Ketelaar, T., Welsh, W., & Billings, D. (1990). Individual differences in trait happiness and physiological response to emotional stimuli. Psychophysiology, 27(Suppl. 4A), 47.

Larsen, R. J., Bunce, S., & Ketelaar, T. (1991). Facial muscle control: Individual differences. Psychophysiology, 28 (Suppl. 3A), S37.

Larsen, R. J., & Buss, D. M. (1991). Sex differences in jealousy. Psychophysiology, 28 (Suppl. 3A), S36.

Non-Refereed Reports:

Larsen, R. J., & Gschwandtner, L. B. (1995). A better day. Personal Selling Power, March, 41-49.

Larsen, R. J., & Gold, B. (1990). Measurement of physiological responses to psychological states. Scientific Computing and Automation, Feb., 31-35.