Michael Shopshire
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Researcher, writer, teacher |
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | I started doing research in high school. My first major award-winning research program was on musical acoustics. I recorded music, played it through an oscilloscope and tried to break it down into its component parts. I decided to use the same approach to study emotions. When I was 18, I developed my own theory of emotion, but was soon disappointed to find it had already been discovered by Aaron Beck and elaborated in his cognitive theory of depression, but I have studied emotion regulation for almost 30 years. I studied emotion with Albert Marston at USC and with Richard Lazarus at the University of California, Berkeley. After earning my Ph.D., I developed a very popular award-winning anger management treatment, which is disseminated by SAMHSA (and appears in "The Soloist"). In 2000, I extended my work to help traders control their emotions, and in 2003 wrote "The Winning Trader: Developing a Mental Edge for Market Success." |
| Favorite movies | Chances Are, The Family Man, Birth, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Defending Your Life |
| Favorite music | I'm stuck in the late 1970s and early 1980s |
| Favorite books | Feeling Good by David Burns, Riding Through the Downers Hassles Snags and Funks by Ari Kiev, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |