Shirley McGuire
Professor
Shirley McGuire Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology, Director of
the Honors in Psychology Program, and Co-Founder of Child and Youth
Studies. She completed her B.A. in Psychology at Queens University,
her M.A. in Experimental Psychology at Western Carolina University,
and her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies at The
Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. McGuire's research involves using a
biocontextual approach to examine sibling relationships and links
between sibling dynamics and children's socio-emotional
development and adjustment in middle childhood and adolescence. She
is the Principal Investigator of the Twins, Adoptees, Peers, and
Siblings (TAPS) study, a NIMH-funded research project focusing on
sibling socialization effects in school-aged children. The study is
being conducted in collaboration with Dr. Nancy Segal at the
California State University, Fullerton. Dr.
McGuire's secondary interests include understanding
genetic contributions to children's personality
development and family experiences during the school-aged and
teenaged years.
Administrative Appointments
Director, Honors in Psychology Program
Publications
Dr. McGuire has authored or co-authored papers on the nature
of children's sibling relationships and the heritability
of personality development and family experiences in international
recognized journals, such as American Psychologist, Psychological
Science, Child Development Perspectives, Child Development,
Developmental Psychology, Journal of Child Psychology and
Psychiatry, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Personality and Social
Psychology, Development & Psychopathology, Social Development,
and Personality and Individual Differences. She a
contributing author to many books including: K. Rotenberg (Ed.)
(2010) Interpersonal Trust during
Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge University Press) and
R. Larson (Ed.) (2009), New
Directions in Child Development (Wiley).
She has also has served as a grant reviewer for National Science
Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (US), and the
Economic & Social Research Council (UK) and on the Editorial
Board of the British Journal of
Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology. She is an ad-hoc reviewer for over 15 research
journals in her field and has served on review panels for both the
Society for Research in Child Development and the Society for
Research on Adolescence conferences.
Other
Please see Dr. McGuire’s Curriculum Vitae for more information about her research and other scholarly activities.
