Research
The causes and assessment of personality disorders (especially psychopathic personality) and personality traits; personality assessment (e.g., the validity of projective techniques); psychiatric classification and diagnosis; pseudoscience and clinical psychology; evidence-based clinical practice; scientific thinking and its application to psychology; philosophical psychology.
Current Research Projects
- The self-report detection of psychopathic personality traits
- Antisocial behavior and emotional processing
- Successful psychopathy
- Sex and cultural differences in the behavioral manifestation of psychopathic personality traits
- Personality and behavioral correlates of absorption
- Popular psychology misconceptions
Lab Members
- Meredith Jones, Graduate Student
- Erin Collier, Graduate Student
- Patrick Sylvers, Graduate Student (co-advised with Dr. Patricia Brennan)
- Katherine Long, Undergraduate Student
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