Carolin Showers is Professor of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma – Norman. She is a social-personality psychologist who conducts research on the structure of the self-concept; optimism, pessimism, and depression; coping strategies and self-esteem; emotion; and ethical behavior.
Early Life and Educational Background
Showers was born in Philadelphia, PA. She attended public high school in suburban Philadelphia, where her favorite subjects were math and creative writing; her extracurricular interests were music and art history; and her athletic interests were ice hockey and bicycling. Pursuing a passion for the natural environment, she earned a B.S.E. degree in Civil and Geological Engineering from Princeton University and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, both with a focus on groundwater modeling. After working for a major oil company as an environmental policy analyst, she decided the important questions related to environmental policy were...
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Showers, C. (2020). Showers, Carolin J.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_436
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