My research starts from the idea that personality pathology reflects both enduring patterns and contextual variation: people develop characteristic ways of understanding themselves and relating to others, but they express these patterns differently across relationships, situations, perspectives, and time. I study personality functioning and interpersonal processes, with particular interest in integrating dimensional models of psychopathology with interpersonal, psychodynamic, and developmental theories of personality. I am especially interested in moments when different methods or observers portray the same person differently, and in what those discrepancies can reveal about the organization of personality pathology.
Faculty Advisors: Aidan Wright and Craig Rodriguez-Seijas
My research starts from the idea that personality pathology reflects both enduring patterns and contextual variation: people develop characteristic ways of understanding themselves and relating to others, but they express these patterns differently across relationships, situations, perspectives, and time. I study personality functioning and interpersonal processes, with particular interest in integrating dimensional models of psychopathology with interpersonal, psychodynamic, and developmental theories of personality. I am especially interested in moments when different methods or observers portray the same person differently, and in what those discrepancies can reveal about the organization of personality pathology.
