Faculty Profile: Michael E. Sadler

Biography

My path to psychology might be considered nontraditional: I began in music school studying the classical guitar at the Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore, MD) completing a bachelor's degree in music performance at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) and continuing there as Director of the Classical Guitar Program. I went on to complete my master's and doctoral degrees in clincal psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwauke. I spent my formative years in several European countries and I continued to travel, live, work and study in countries that include Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy and Sweden (I am a strong believer in the value of an international perspective and diversity).

Courses Taught

I generally teach courses and conduct research in the areas of psychopathology, personality, and related topics such as psychological testing and measurement.

Scheduled Fall 2013

• Honors Introduction to Psychology
• Psychopathology
• Psychological Assessment
• Research Practicum

Educational History

• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Pre-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Internship, St. Louis Metropolitan Psychiatric Center, St. Louis, MO
• M.S., Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• B.M., Music Performance, University of South Carolina, Columbia
• Music Performance Scholarship, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
   

Professional Societies

• Association for Psychological Science
• Association for Research in Personality
• Behavior Genetics Association
• International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
• International Society for Twin Studies
• Midwestern Psychological Association
• Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology

Publications

• Estabrook, R., Sadler, M., Christensen, K., & McGue, M. (2012). Differential item functioning in the CAMDEX depression scale across middle age and late-life. Paper presented at the Behavior Genetics Association conference, June, 2012, Edinburg, SCT (manuscript in preparation)
• Sadler, M., Miller, C., Christensen, K., & McGue, M. (2011). Subjective well-being and longevity: A co-twin control study. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 14(3), 249–256.
• Sadler, M., Hunger, J., & Miller, C. J. (2010). Personality and impression management: Mapping the Multidimensional Personality Inventory onto twelve self-presentation tactics. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 623–628.
• Sadler, M., & Miller, C. (2010). Performance anxiety: A longitudinal study of the roles of personality and experience in musicians. Social and Personality Psychological Science, 1(3), 280–287.
• Sadler, M., Ziegler-Graham, K., & Martin, S. Raising and maintaining subjective-wellbeing: A test of gratitude and kindness activities (manuscript in preparation)

Scholarship/Research

I am interested broadly in understanding differences between people in personality traits and psychopathology, the origins of these differences, and their effects on important life outcomes. I am also interested in late-life psychological functioning and aging generally, and, in particular, the nature and impact of affect, primarily depression. I have been fortunate to conduct research in aging using data from ongoing twin studies in Denmark; I particularly enjoy international and interdisciplinary collaborations.

"Often before now I have applied my thoughts to the puzzling question – one, probably, which will puzzle me for ever – why it is that, while all Greece lies under the same sky and all Greeks are educated alike, it has befallen us to have characters so variously constituted." Theophrastus