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Clinical Psychology
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Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.

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; critical thinking and its application to psychology.

Current Research Projects
  • The self-report assessment of psychopathic personality traits
  • Antisocial behavior and somatization
  • Psychopathy and frontal lobe dysfunction
  • Sex and cultural differences in the behavioral manifestation of psychopathic personality traits
  • Personality and behavioral correlates of absorption
Lab Members
  • Katherine Fowler, Graduate Student
  • Erin Collier, Graduate Student
  • Patrick Sylvers, Graduate Student (co-advised with Dr. Patricia Brennan)
  • Hollis Wright, Undergraduate Student
  • Reed Mayo, Undergraduate Student

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