Dr. Michael Shopshire is a psychologist who is an expert in emotion control and has conducted research in this area for over 20 years. The National Institute on Health has funded his research and the United States Department of Health and Human Services has published and nationally distributed Anger Management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Patients (coauthored with Dr. Patrick Reilly). In addition to his research on emotions, Dr. Shopshire has received national recognition for his innovative work in personality assessment. With Dr. Kenneth Craik, he pioneered the use of video recording equipment to study personality characteristics of business managers as they interacted and made decisions in real-world business settings.

Dr. Shopshire has held the position of Research Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, where he taught and conducted research. He has also worked as a Senior Assessment Psychologist at the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, where he assessed business managers and studied personality characteristics associated with high performance on decision-making and management tasks. Dr. Shopshire has published widely in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, and has developed numerous psychological assessment measures.

Currently the editor of Innerworth.com's Mind Over Markets newsletter, Dr. Shopshire has worked with the pioneering website since 2000. He created their assessment profile, wrote The Winning Trader, Developing a Mental Edge for Market Success and interviewed such traders as ________________, ____________________ and ________________ for their popular Master Interview series, patterned after the Market Wizards series of books.

Using his experience in the field of personality assessment, coupled with six years of studying the behaviors or traders, Dr. Shopshire now works with individual traders to get at the personal traits that might be limiting their overall success in the markets.

Dr. Shopshire received his B.A. degree in psychology from the University of Southern California, and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.