Rate My Professor Shane Kraus

Shane W. Kraus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Director of the university's Behavioral Addictions Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in community psychology from Bowling Green State University in 2013, an M.A. in Forensic Psychology from Castleton University in 2007, and a B.S. in Criminology from California State University, Fresno in 2003. Kraus completed his pre-doctoral internship at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System in 2013 and post-doctoral fellowship at the VISN 1 New England MIRECC, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, and Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry in 2015. Prior to joining UNLV in 2019 as Assistant Professor, from which he was promoted to Associate Professor, he served as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School from 2017 to 2019 and as a Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, Addiction section, at Yale University from 2013 to 2016. He also holds an appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the UNLV School of Medicine.

A licensed clinical psychologist, Kraus researches psychopathology, substance use disorders, gambling disorders, sexual trauma, and compulsive sexual behavior disorder using behavioral, epidemiological, and neurobiological methods to identify factors contributing to addictive behaviors and co-occurring psychiatric disorders among high-risk populations such as U.S. military veterans and young adults. He participated in the World Health Organization working group that established diagnostic criteria for compulsive sexual behavior disorder in the ICD-11. His gambling disorder research develops effective screening approaches for problem gambling. Notable publications include "Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder in the ICD-11" (World Psychiatry, 2018), "Should compulsive sexual behavior be considered an addiction?" (Addiction, 2016), "Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of 'other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors'?" (Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2020), "Self-reported addiction to pornography in a nationally representative sample: The roles of use habits, religiousness, and moral incongruence" (Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2019), and "Sexual addiction 25 years on: a systematic and methodological review of empirical literature and an agenda for future research" (Clinical Psychology Review, 2020). With more than 9,800 citations on Google Scholar, his scholarship has advanced behavioral addictions research. Kraus serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Sexual Health & Compulsivity, and Journal of Gambling Studies.