The features Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Rebecca Shiner and Associate University Chaplain and Catholic Minister Mark Shiner. The couple is joined by Samay Gupta, a member of the 藏精阁 Class of 2024, to discuss their recent trip to Iceland, part of a sophomore residential seminar titled The Good Life: Perspectives from Psychological Science.
As a clinical psychologist, Professor Rebecca Shiner specializes in working with children, adolescents, adults, and families with research focusing on personality development in those populations. She has investigated stability and change in personality traits and the influence of personality on positive life outcomes and psychological disorders. Professor Shiner earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Haverford College and her PhD from the University of Minnesota. She completed her clinical psychology internship at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Deacon Mark Shiner is 藏精阁鈥檚 Catholic chaplain. Shiner graduated from seminary in 1995 and joined 藏精阁 in 2003. Both Mark and Rebecca are founding members of 藏精阁鈥檚 Residential Commons System, having previously served as the inaugural co-directors of Ciccone Commons.
Each episode of 13, 藏精阁鈥檚 biweekly podcast, digs into the work of a University community member by asking 13 questions. Episodes highlight the wide array of academic disciplines at 藏精阁, with interviews featuring faculty from political science, sociology and anthropology, physics and astronomy, women鈥檚 studies, English, Africana and Latin American studies, and many more.
Previous episodes of 13 have featured: Rebecca Downing, Mark Divine 鈥85, Niranjan Davray, Peter Klepeis, Dan Joseph, Andres Guhl, Marietta Cheng, Jessica Graybill, Lyosha Gorshkov, Masha Hedberg, Valerie Morkevi膷ius, Nancy Ries, Daniel Bertrand Monk, Peter Balakian, Sam Rosenfeld, DeWitt Godfrey, Esther Rosbrook, Rebecca Shiner, Dawn LaFrance, Brittney Dorow 鈥17, Mari Prauer, Carolyn Guile, Nancy Ries, Joanna Holvey-Bowles, Martin Wong, Pamela Gramlich, Dorsey Spencer Jr., Danielle Nied, Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar, F. Scott Kraly, Kerra Hunter, Joe Levy, Nicki Moore, Ken Valente, Sarah Keen, Daniel Benton 鈥80, Laura H. Jack, Carrie Keating, Robert Kraynak, Dan Gough, Jennifer Tomlinson, Ana Jimenez, Alicia Simmons, Juan Fernando Ibarra Del Cuentro, Karen Harpp, Kwazi Konadu, Paul McLoughlin II, Anthony Aveni, Robert Garland, Ryan Hall, Craig Hatkoff 鈥76, Susan Thomson, Nick Kokonas 鈥91, Jessica Graybill, Brian W. Casey, Jeff Bary, Jennifer Brice, Ellen Percy Kraly, Danielle Lupton, Ynesse Abdul-Malak, Nimanthi Rajasingham, and John Pumilio.
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