The Personality Studies Lab studies the interplay between personality and psychopathology with a primary focus on externalizing (EXT) disorders and outcomes. Within the broad EXT grouping, our interest lies most strongly with the domain of Antagonism vs. Agreeableness. We see this as the core of multiple disorders including narcissism/narcissistic personality disorder, psychopathy/ASPD, and other related constructs (e.g., Machiavellianism). We tend to use structural models of general and pathological personality for much of our work (e.g. Five Factor Model/Big Five; DSM-5 AMPD) as we find it has great utility in organizing many of the constructs used in psychology and psychopathology with fewer concerns re: jingle-jangle fallacies. We work on a variety of issues within this topic including diagnostic models of personality disorder, creating and validating assessments for these constructs, and building parsimonious empirical models of personality and psychopathology. Lab site: Visit the Personality Studies lab site
