AIDAN G. C. WRIGHT, Ph.D. - University of Pittsburgh · 2017-08-08 · Advisor: Patrick M. Markey, Ph.D. 1999 – 2003 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

Curriculum Vitae

AIDAN G. C. WRIGHT, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology Office: (412) 624-3065 University Pittsburgh E-Mail: [email protected] 4121 Sennott Square Lab webpage: www.personalityprocesses.com 210 S. Bouquet Street Department webpage: LINK Pittsburgh, PA 15260

POSITIONS 2014-Present Assistant Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Fellowship Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo 2012 Postdoctoral Scholar, Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Trainee Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

ACADEMIC HISTORY 2006 – 2012 Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

Dissertation: Comparing Methods to Model Stability and Change in Personality and its Pathology

Advisor: Aaron L. Pincus, Ph.D. 2011 – 2012 Predoctoral Clinical Internship, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 2004 – 2006 Master of Science, Psychology, Villanova University Thesis: Retrospective Complementarity and the Interpersonal Situation Advisor: Patrick M. Markey, Ph.D. 1999 – 2003 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

HONORS AND AWARDS*

2013-2015 National Institute of Health Clinical Loan Repayment Program

Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (L30 MH101760)

2013 & 2014 Early Career Travel Grant, Society for Personality Assessment

2011 Rising Star Award, Association for Research in Personality

A.G.C. Wright Curriculum Vitae

2011 Jerry S. Wiggins Student Award for Outstanding Interpersonal Research, Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research

2010 Mary S. Cerney Award for Outstanding Student Research Paper, Society for Personality Assessment

2010 Raymond Lombra Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences, College of the Liberal Arts, The Pennsylvania State University

2009 Martin T. Murphy Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychology Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

2009 Outstanding Publication by a Graduate Student in Psychology Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

2007-2008 Penn State Quantitative Social Science Initiative Predoctoral Fellowship (http://qssi.psu.edu/)

2005-2006 Villanova University Graduate Assistantship

2005 Psi Chi Honor Society

*A comprehensive list of departmental and scientific society student travel awards is available on request.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 2005-Pres. Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research – Member at Large 2006-Pres. Association for Research in Personality 2006-Pres. Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2006-2012 American Psychological Association 2006-Pres. Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Division 12), Section IX – Assessment Psychology 2008-Pres. Society for Personality Assessment 2010-Pres. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2012-Pres. Society for Research in Psychopathology 2013-Pres. Association for Psychological Science 2013-2014 North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders 2015-Pres. Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology 2015-Pres. Society for Ambulatory Assessment

JOURNAL RELATED ACTIVITY Editorial Board:

2012-Pres. Consulting Editor – Journal of Personality Assessment 2012-Pres. Consulting Editor – Journal of Personality Disorders 2012-Pres. Consulting Editor – Assessment 2014-Pres. Consulting Editor – Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment 2015-Pres. Consulting Editor – Psychological Assessment 2015-Pres. Consulting Editor – Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2015-Pres. Consulting Editor – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – Personality Processes and Individual Differences Section


Ad hoc Reviewer:

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Personality; Journal of Research in Personality; Development and Psychopathology; Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training; Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Organizational Management Journal; Comprehensive Psychiatry; European Journal of Personality; Journal of Psychiatric Practice; SAGE Open; Frontiers in Psychology; IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing; Philosophical Psychology; European Journal of Psychological Assessment; Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; Social Psychological and Personality Science; Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology; Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology; JAMA: Psychiatry; Neurocomputing; Psychology of Addictive Behaviors; Molecular Psychiatry; Psychological Review; Journal of Anxiety Disorders; Psychological Medicine.

Special Series Coordinator (with Michael N. Hallquist, Ph.D.) – Statistical Developments and Applications Section of the Journal for Personality Assessment: “Special Series on Mixture Modeling in Personality Assessment” – Published 2014

Special Issue Editor (with Christopher J. Hopwood, Ph.D.) – Assessment: “Assessing Dynamic Psychological

Processes” Guest Editor: Journal of Personality Disorders – 1 Manuscript, 2015

PUBLICATIONS

Manuscripts in press 74. Creswell, K.G., Bachrach, R.B., Wright, A.G.C., Pinto, A.L., & Ansell, E.B. (in press). Predicting

problematic alcohol use with the DSM-5 alternative model of personality pathology in treatment seeking and non-seeking samples. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

73. Wright, A.G.C., Scott, L.N., Stepp, S.D., Hallquist, M.N., & Pilkonis, P.A. (in press). Personality pathology

and interpersonal problem stability. Journal of Personality Disorders. 72. Wright, A.G.C (in press). Factor analytic support for the five-factor model. In T.A. Widiger (Ed.) Oxford

handbook of the five-factor model. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 71. Wright, A.G.C., Zalewski, M., Hallquist, M.N., Hipwell, A.E., & Stepp, S.D. (in press). Developmental

trajectories of borderline personality disorder symptoms and psychosocial functioning in adolescence. Journal of Personality Disorders.

70. Wright, A.G.C. & Simms, L.J. (in press). A metastructural model of mental disorders and pathological

personality traits. Psychological Medicine. 69. Wright, A.G.C., Hopwood, C.J., & Simms, L.J. (in press). Daily interpersonal and affective dynamics in

personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders. 68. Sharp, C., Wright, A.G.C., Fowler, J.C., Freuh, C., Allen, J.G., Oldham, J., & Clark, L.A. (in press). The

structure of personality pathology: Both general ('g') and specific ('s') factors? Journal of Abnormal Psychology.


67. Waller, R., Wright, A.G.C., Shaw, D.S., Gardner, F., Dishion, T.J., Wilson, M.N., & Hyde, L.W. (in press). Factor structure and construct validity of the parent-reported Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits among high-risk 9 year olds. Assessment.

66. Creswell, K.G., Wright, A.G.C., Troxel, W.M., Ferrell, R.E., Flory, J.D., & Manuck, S. (in press). Variation

in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphism predicts social relationships through its effects on social temperament. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

65. Creswell, K.G., Chung, T., Wright, A.G.C., Clark, D.B., Black, J., & Martin, C.S. (in press). Personality,

negative affect coping, and drinking alone: A structural equation modeling approach to examine correlates of adolescent solitary drinking. Addiction.

64. Fairbairn, C.E., Sayette, M.S., Wright, A.G.C., Levine, J.M., Cohn, J.F., & Creswell, K.G. (in press).

Extraversion and the rewarding effects of alcohol in a social context. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 63. Wright, A.G.C., & Markon, K.E. (in press). Longitudinal designs. In J.C. Norcross, G.R. VandenBos, & D.K.

Freedheim (Eds.) American Psychological Association handbook of clinical psychology, Vol. II. Clinical psychology: Theory and research. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

62. Beeney, J.E., Stepp, S.D., Hallquist, M.N., Wright, A.G.C., Ellison, W.D., Nolf, K.A., Pilkonis, P.A., (in

press). Attachment and Social Cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder: Specificity in Relation to Antisocial and Avoidant Personality Disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

61. Lenzenweger, M.F., Hallquist, M.N., & Wright, A.G.C. (in press). Understanding stability and change in the

personality disorders: Methodological and substantive issues underpinning interpretive challenges in the road ahead. In J. Livesley & R. Larstone, (Eds). Handbook of personality disorders (2nd ed). New York: Guilford.

60. Levine, J.M., Alexander, K.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Higgins, T.C. (in press). Group brainstorming: When

regulatory non-fit enhances performance. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 59. Pincus, A.L., Hopwood, C.J., & Wright, A.G.C. (in press). The situation through an interpersonal lens.

European Journal of Personality. 2015 58. Wright, A.G.C. Calabrese, W.R., Rudick, M.M., Yam, W.H., Zelazny, K., Rotterman, J., & Simms, L.J.

(2015). Stability of the DSM-5 Section III pathological personality traits and their longitudinal associations with functioning in personality disordered individuals. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124(1), 199-207.

57. Wright, A.G.C., Hopwood, C.J., & Zanarini, M.C. (2015). Associations between changes in normal

personality traits and borderline personality disorder symptoms over 16 years. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6(1), 1-11.

56. Scott, L.N., Stepp, S.D., Hallquist, M.N., Whalen, D.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Pilkonis, P.A. (2015). Daily

shame and hostile irritability in adolescent girls with borderline personality disorder symptoms. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6(1), 53-63.


55. Byrd, A.L., Wright, A.G.C., Sen, S., Shedden, K., & Manuck, S.B. (in press). Appropriate approaches to summarizing GxE studies: Reply to Laoutidis and Luckhous. Biological Psychiatry, 77(1), e3–e4.

54. Dinger, U., Barrett, M.S., Zimmermann, J., Schauenburg, H., Wright, A.G.C., Renner, F., Zilcha-Mano, S.,

& Barrber, J.P. (2015). Interpersonal problems, dependency, and self-criticism in major depressive disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71(1), 93-104.

53. Wright, A.G.C. & Zimmermann, J. (2015). At the nexus of science and practice: Answering basic clinical

questions in personality disorder assessment and diagnosis with quantitative modeling techniques. In S. Huprich (Ed.), Personality disorders: Toward theoretical and empirical integration in diagnosis and assessment (pp. 109-144). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

52. Cain, N.M., Lukowitsky, M.R., & Wright, A.G.C. (2015). The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire.

In R. Cautin & S. Lilienfeld (Eds.) Encyclopedia of clinical psychology (pp. 1-6). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

51. Ansell, E.B., Wright, A.G.C., Markowitz, J.C., Sanislow, C., Hopwood, C.J., Zanarini, M., Yen, S., Pinto, A.

& Grilo, C.M. (in press). Personality disorder risk factors for suicide attempts over 10 years of follow-up. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6(2), 161-167.

2014 50. Wright, A.G.C., & Simms, L.J. (2014). On the structure of personality disorder traits: Conjoint analyses of

the CAT-PD, PID-5, and NEO-PI-3 trait models. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 5(1), 43-54.

49. Wright, A.G.C., Hallquist, M.N, Swartz, H.A., Frank, E., & Cyranowski, J.M. (2014). Treating co-occurring

depression and anxiety: Modeling the dynamics of psychopathology and psychotherapy using the time varying effect model. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(5), 839-853.

48. Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Donnellan, M.B., Wright, A.G.C., McDevitt-Murphy, M.E., Ansell, E.B.,

Shea, M.T., Markowitz, J.C., Skodol, A.E., Grilo, C.M., McGlashan, T.H., Sanislow, C.A., Zanarini, M.C., & Morey, L.C. (2014). Personality heterogeneity in PTSD: Distinct temperamental and interpersonal typologies. Psychological Assessment, 26(1), 23-34.

47. Wright, A.G.C. & Hallquist, M.N. (2014). Introduction to the special series on mixture modeling in

personality assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 96(3), 253-255. 46. Hallquist, M.N. & Wright, A.G.C. (2014). Mixture modeling methods for the assessment of normal and

abnormal personality part I: Cross-sectional models. Journal of Personality Assessment, 96(3), 256-268. 45. Wright, A.G.C. & Hallquist, M.N. (2014). Mixture modeling methods for the assessment of normal and

abnormal personality part II: Longitudinal models. Journal of Personality Assessment, 96(3), 269-282. 44. Grosse Holtforth, M., Altenstein, D., Krieger, T., Flückiger, C., Wright, A.G.C., & Caspar, F. (2014).

Interpersonal differentiation within depression diagnosis: Relating interpersonal subgroups to symptom load and the quality of the early therapeutic alliance. Psychotherapy Research, 24(4), 429-441.


43. Pincus, A.L., Sadler, P., Woody, E., Roche, M.J., Thomas, K.M., & Wright, A.G.C., (2014). Assessing interpersonal dynamics. In C.J. Hopwood & R.F. Bornstein (Eds.), Multimethod clinical assessment (pp. 52-91). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

42. Wright, A.G.C. (2014). Integrating trait and process based conceptualizations of pathological narcissism in

the DSM-5 era. In A. Besser (Ed.) Handbook of psychology of narcissism: Diverse perspectives (pp. 153-174). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

41. Wright, A.G.C. (2014). Stirring up the personality and psychopathology pond. European Journal of

Personality, 28(4), 403-404. 40. Wright, A.G.C. (2014). Narcissism and its discontents. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and

Treatment, 5(2), 232-233. 39. Krueger, R.F., Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Markon, K.E. (2014). The role of DSM-5 along the road

towards the empirical classification of personality and psychopathology. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 21(3), 245-261.

38. Trucco, E.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Colder, C.R. (2014). Stability and change of social goals in adolescence.

Journal of Personality, 82(5), 379-389. 37. Pincus, A.L., Cain, N.M., & Wright, A.G.C. (2014). Narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability in

psychotherapy. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 5(4), 439-443. 36. Krueger, R.F., Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Markon, K.E. (2014). Challenges and strategies in helping

DSM become more dimensional and empirically based. Current Psychiatry Reports, 16(12), 1-6. 35. Wright, A.G.C. (2014). Current directions in personality science and the potential for advances through

computing. IEEE: Transactions on Affective Computing, 5(3), 292-296. 2013 34. Wright, A.G.C., Hallquist, M.N., Beeney, J.E., & Pilkonis, P.A. (2013). Borderline personality pathology and

the stability of interpersonal problems. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122(4), 1094-1100. 33. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2013). A parallel process growth model of avoidant

personality disorder symptoms and personality traits. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 4(3), 230-238.

32. Wright, A.G.C., Hallquist, M.N., Morse, J.Q., Scott, L.N., Stepp, S.D., Nolf, K.A., & Pilkonis, P.A. (2013)

Clarifying interpersonal heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder using latent mixture modeling. Journal of Personality Disorders, 27(2), 125-143.

31. Wright, A.G.C., Krueger, R.F., Hobbs, M.J., Markon, K.E., Eaton, N.R., & Slade, T. (2013). The structure of

psychopathology: Toward an expanded quantitative empirical model. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122(1), 281-294.

30. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Markon, K.E., & Krueger, R.F. (2013).

Conceptions of Narcissism and the DSM-5 Pathological Personality Traits. Assessment, 20(3), 339-352.


29. Dawood, S., Thomas, K.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Hopwood, C.J. (2013). Heterogeneity of interpersonal problems among depressed young adults: Differential risk for substance abuse and pathological personality traits. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95(5), 513-522.

28. Thomas, K.M., Yalch, M.M., Krueger, R.F., Wright, A.G.C., Markon, K.E., & Hopwood, C.J. (2013). The

convergent structure of DSM-5 personality trait facets and the five-factor model (FFM) trait domains. Assessment, 20(3), 308-311.

27. Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., Krueger, R.F., Shade, N., Markon, K.E., & Morey, L.C. (2013). DSM-5

Pathological personality traits and the Personality Assessment Inventory. Assessment, 20(3), 269-285. 26. Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., Ansell, E.B., & Pincus, A.L. (2013). The interpersonal core of personality

pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 27(3), 271-295. 25. Trucco, E.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Colder C.R. (2013). A revised interpersonal circumplex measure of

children’s social goals. Assessment, 20(1), 98-113. 24. Hopwood, C.J., Schade, N., Krueger, R.F., Wright, A.G.C., & Markon, K.E. (2013). Connecting DSM-5

personality traits and pathological beliefs: Toward a unifying model. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 35(2), 162-172.

23. Scott, L.N., Kim, Y., Nolf, K.A., Hallquist, M.N., Wright, A.G.C., Stepp, S.D., Morse, J.Q., & Pilkonis, P.A.

(2013). Preoccupied attachment and emotional dysregulation: Specific aspects of borderline personality disorder or general dimensions of personality pathology? Journal of Personality Disorders, 27(4), 473-495.

2012 22. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2012). An empirical examination of distributional

assumptions underlying the relationship between personality disorder symptoms and personality traits. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121(3), 699-706.

21. Wright, A.G.C., Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Markon, K.E., Pincus, A.L. & Krueger, R.F. (2012). The

hierarchical structure of DSM-5 pathological personality traits. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121(4), 951-957.

20. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2012). Interpersonal development, stability, and change

in young adulthood. Journal of Personality, 80(5), 1339-1372. 19. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., Hopwood, C.J., Thomas, K.M., Markon, K.E., & Krueger, R.F. (2012). An

interpersonal analysis of pathological personality traits in DSM-5. Assessment, 19(3), 263-275. 18. Cain, N.M., Ansell, E.B., Wright, A.G.C., Hopwood, C.J., Thomas, K.M., Pinto, A.N., Markowitz, J.C.,

Sanislow, C.A., Zanarini, M., Shea, M.T., Morey, L.C., McGlashan, T.H., Skodol, C.M., & Grilo, C.M. (2012). Interpersonal pathoplasticity in the course of major depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 80(1), 78-86.

17. Donnellan, M.B., Hopwood, C.J., & Wright, A.G.C. (2012). Reevaluating the evidence for the general factor

of personality in the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire: Concerns about Rushton and Irwing (2009). Personality and Individual Differences, 52(2), 285-289.


16. Thomas, K.M., Wright, A.G.C., Lukowitsky, M.R., Donnellan, M.B., & Hopwood, C.J. (2012). Evidence for

the criterion validity and clinical utility of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Assessment, 19(2), 135-145.

15. Hopwood, C.J., Thomas, K.M., Markon, K.E., Wright, A.G.C., & Krueger, R.F. (2012). DSM-5 personality

traits and DSM-IV personality disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121(2), 424-432. 14. Hopwood, C.J. & Wright, A.G.C. (2012). A comparison of passive aggressive and negativistic personality.

Journal of Personality Assessment, 94(3), 296-303. 2011 13. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2011). Development of personality and the remission

and onset of personality pathology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(6), 1351-1358. 12. Wright, A.G.C. (2011). Quantitative and qualitative distinctions in personality disorder. Journal of

Personality Assessment, 93(4), 370-379. 11. Hopwood, C.J., Ansell, E.B., Pincus, A.L., Wright, A.G.C., Lukowitsky, M.R., & Roche, M.J. (2011). The

circumplex structure of interpersonal sensitivities. Journal of Personality, 79(4), 707-740. 10. Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Donnellan, M.B. (2011). Evaluating the evidence for the general factor of

personality across multiple inventories. Journal of Research in Personality, 45(5), 468-478. 9. Pincus, A.L. & Wright, A.G.C. (2011). Interpersonal diagnosis of psychopathology. In L.M. Horowitz and S.

Strack (Eds.) Handbook of Interpersonal Psychology: Theory, Research, Assessment, and Therapeutic Interventions (pp. 359-381). New York: Wiley.

2010 8. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2010). Modeling stability and change in borderline

personality disorder symptoms using the Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales - Big Five (IASR-B5). Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(6), 501-513.

7. Wright, A.G.C., Lukowitsky, M.R., Pincus, A.L., & Conroy, D.E. (2010). The higher-order factor structure

and gender invariance of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Assessment, 17(4), 467-483. 6. Pincus, A.L., Lukowitsky, M.R., & Wright, A.G.C. (2010). The interpersonal nexus of personality and

psychopathology. In T. Millon, R.F. Krueger, & E. Simonsen (Eds.) Contemporary directions in psychopathology: Scientific Foundations for the DSM-V and ICD-11 (pp. 523-552). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

5. Kraus, D., Boswell, J.F., Wright, A.G.C., Castonguay, L.G., & Pincus, A.L., (2010). Factor structure of the

Treatment Outcome Package for children. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 66(6), 627-640. 2009


4. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., Conroy, D.E., & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2009). Integrating methods to optimize circumplex description and comparison of groups. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(4), 311-322.

3. Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., Conroy, D.E., & Elliot, A. (2009). The pathoplastic relationship between

interpersonal problems and fear of failure. Journal of Personality, 77(4), 997-1024. 2. Pincus, A.L., Ansell, E.B., Pimentel, C.A., Cain, N.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Levy, K.N. (2009). The initial

development and derivation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 21(3), 365-379.

1. Pincus, A.L., Lukowitsky, M.R., Wright, A.G.C., & Eichler, W.C. (2009). The interpersonal nexus of persons,

situations, and psychopathology. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(2), 264-265. Manuscripts under review †Zimmerman, J. & Wright, A.G.C. (under review). Beyond description in interpersonal construct validation:

Methodological advances in the circumplex structural summary approach. †First authorship for this manuscript is shared.

Read, J.P., Bachrach, R.L., Wright, A.G.C., & Colder, C.R. (in revision). Trauma, trauma sequelae, and alcohol

use across the first year of college: A latent transition analysis. Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Pincus, A.L. (under review). The interpersonal situation: Integrating clinical

assessment, formulation, and intervention. Dermody, S.S., Wright, A.G.C., Cheong, J., Miller, K., Muldoon, M.F., Flory, J.D., Gianaros, P.J., Marsland,

A.L., & Manuck, S.B. (revision invited). Personality correlates of midlife cardiometabolic risk: The explanatory role of higher-order factors of the five-factor model.

Wright, A.G.C. (under review). On the measure and mismeasure of narcissism: Response to Miller, Lynam, &

Campbell. Assessment. Waugh, M.H., Hopwood, C.J., Krueger, R.F., Pincus, A.L., & Wright, A.G.C. (under review). Psychological

assessment with the DSM-5 Alternative Model for personality disorders: Tradition and innovation. Wright, A.G.C. & Simms, L.J. (under review). Pathological personality traits, stress processes, and symptom

expression in daily life.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Wright, A.G.C. (April, 2015). Challenges facing an empirically supported personality disorder model:

Integrating structure and dynamic processes. Villanova University Department of Psychology Colloquium Series.

Wright, A.G.C. (March, 2014). Toward a scientific foundation for personality disorder: Integrating structure

and dynamic processes. Wake Forest University Department of Psychology Colloquium Series.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS


Wright, A.G.C., Ross, J.M., Girard, J.M., Scott, L.N., Beeney, J.E., Hallquist, M.N., Stepp, S.D., & Pilkonis,

P.A. (October, 2015). Personality pathology and momentary interpersonal behavior during conflict resolution. Paper to be presented as part of the symposium Interpersonal processes in personality disorders: From the person to the network, A.G.C. Wright (chair), at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, LA.

Hallquist, M.N., Wright, A.G.C., Stepp, S.D., Beeney, J.E., Scott, L.N., & Pilkonis, P.A. (October, 2015). The

disruptive effects of personality dysfunction on romantic couples’ social networks. Paper to be presented as part of the symposium Interpersonal processes in personality disorders: From the person to the network, A.G.C. Wright (chair), at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, LA.

Williams, T.F., Simms, L.J., & Wright, A.G.C. (October, 2015). Characterizing antagonistic personality traits

across levels of interpersonal functioning. Poster presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, New Orleans, LA.

Wright, A.G.C. (October, 2015). The opportunity and challenge in integrating structure and dynamic processes

in a scientific model of personality disorder. Paper to be presented as part of the Young Researcher Symposium, M. Kaess & C. Sharp (Chairs), at the 14th International Congress on the Disorders of Personality, Montreal, Canada.

Wright, A.G.C., Simms, L.J., & Hopwood, C.J. (August, 2015). Daily interpersonal and affective dynamics in

personality disorder. Paper to be presented as part of the symposium, Beyond DSM-5: Connecting personality structure and dynamics in personality disorders, A.L. Pincus (Chair), at the American Psychological Association annual convention, Toronto, Canada.

Wright, A.G.C., Stepp, S.D., & Pilkonis, P.A. (June, 2015). The effect of narcissistic personality pathology on

interpersonal interactions in romantic couples. Paper to be presented as part of the symposium, Being (with) a narcissist: A multidimensional approach to the conceptualization and social consequences of narcissism, M. Back (Chair), at the 4th biannual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, St. Louis, MO.

Wright, A.G.C., Gates, K.M., Beltz, A.M., Molenaar, P.C.M., & Simms, L.J. (June, 2015). Using group iterative

multiple model estimation (GIMME) to study dynamic individual structures in ambulatory assessment data of psychiatric patients. Paper to be presented at the 4th biannual meeting of the Society for Ambulatory Assessment, State College, PA.

Creswell, K.G., Chung, T., Wright, A.G.C., Black, J.J., Clark, D.B., & Martin, C.S. (June, 2015). Personality,

negative affect coping, and drinking alone: A structural equation modeling approach to examine correlates of adolescent solitary drinking. Poster presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Antonio, TX.

Dermody, S.S., Hopwood, C.J., Thomas, K.M., Shade, N., & Wright, A.G.C. (May, 2015). Modeling the

complexity of dynamic, momentary interpersonal behavior: Applying the time-varying effect model to test predictions from interpersonal theory. Paper presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Toronto, Canada.


Williams, T.F., Simms, L.J., & Wright, A.G.C. (May, 2015). A Cross-Surface Interpersonal Analysis of Antagonistic Personality Traits. Poster presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Toronto, Canada.

Wright, A.G.C., Stepp, S.D., Scott, L.N., Hallquist, M.N., Beeney, J.E., & Pilkonis, P.A. (May, 2015). The effect

of pathological narcissism on interpersonal and affective processes in social interactions. Paper presented at the 18th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Toronto, Canada.

Donofry, S.D., Roecklein, K.A., Miller, M.A., Hasler, B.P., Wright, A.G.C., Franzen, P.L., Wood-Vasey, W.M.,

& Gamlin, P.D. (May, 2015). Melanopsin-specific retinal sub-sensitivity in seasonal affective disorder. Poster presented at the 70h Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada.

Miller, K.A., Wright, A.G.C., Peterson, L.M., Kamarck, T.W., & Manuck, S.B. (2015, March). Positive

emotionality is associated with a steeper diurnal cortisol slope. Paper presented as part of the paper session, Genetic, mitochondrial, and psychosocial influences on cortisol, at the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, Savannah, GA.

Atkins, D.C., Jacobsen, N., Laurenceau, J., Rappaport, L., & Wright, A.G.C. (2014, November). Intensive data:

Bringing intensive longitudinal data and ambulatory assessment to clinical research and practice. Panel Discussion at the annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Wright, A.G.C. & Simms, L.J. (2014, November). Transactional processes between personality traits and daily

stress in personality disordered individuals. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Can environment trigger a personality disorder? New evidence and clinical lessons from stress research, R.P. Auerbach & C. Conway (Chairs), at the annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Wright, A.G.C. (November, 2014). Systematizing the study of social interaction using interpersonal theory of

personality. Paper presented at the Workshop on Computationally Intensive Modeling of Social Interaction, Biosphere, Tucson, Arizona.

Amole, M.C., Cyranowski, J.M., Swartz, H.A., & Wright, A.G.C. (November, 2014). The physiologic

responsiveness of mother-daughter pairs during interactions. Poster presented at the Workshop on Computationally Intensive Modeling of Social Interaction, Biosphere, Tucson, Arizona.

Wright, A.G.C. (October, 2014). Interpersonal theory as a foundation for studying social processes in

psychopathology. Paper presented as part of the symposium, The interface of psychopathology with basic social and personality psychology, W. Fleeson (Chair), at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Columbus, Ohio.

Wright, A.G.C., (2014, August). Stress processes as a general framework for clarifying the distinction between

normal and abnormal personality functioning. Paper presented at the Minnesota Personality and Psychopathology Meeting, Long Lake, Minnesota.

Wright, A.G.C., Simms, L.J., & Molenaar, P.C.M. (July, 2014). Placing the person at the center of personality

disorder using idiographic modeling. Paper presented as part of the symposium, Contemporary issues in personality pathology, J. Zimmermann & A.G.C. Wright (Chairs), at the 17th European Conference on Personality, Lausanne, Switzerland.


Wright, A.G.C., & Simms, L.J. (June, 2014). Daily dynamics associated with interpersonal problems in personality disorder. Paper presented at the 17th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, New Haven, CT.

Wright, A.G.C. (May, 2014). At the nexus of science and practice in pathological narcissism: Empirical

approaches for evaluating and refining the DSM-5 Section III model. Paper presented as part of the symposium Narcissistic personality disorder – DSM-5 and beyond, E. Ronningstam (Chair), at the 167th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY.

Wright, A.G.C., & Simms, L.J. (April, 2014). A naturalistic study of daily fluctuations in personality disorder

symptoms. Paper presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the North America Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Boston, MA.

Wright, A.G.C. (March, 2014). Discussant for the symposium The Psychopathology Spectra Inventory:

Broadband measure based on quantitative models of psychopathology, M.A. Blais (Chair), at the 76th annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA.

Burchette, D., Lowmaster, S.E., Lukowitsky, M.R., Samuel, D.B., & Wright, A.G.C. (March, 2014). Roundtable

discussion, Starting an Assessment Research Career, M.J. Roche (Chair), at the 76th annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA.

Wright, A.G.C., Sharp, C., Fowler, J.C., Oldham, J.M., & Clark, L.A. (March, 2014). Borderline personality

disorder symptoms as general markers of personality pathology. Paper presented as part of the symposium Measuring the DSM-5 Description of Criterion A, M. Roche (Chair), at the 76th annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA.

Wright, A.G.C., Zimmermann, J., Dammann, G.W., Hörz, S., & Benecke, C. (March, 2014). On the structure of

personality organization in community and clinical samples. Paper presented as part of the symposium Dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models of personality and its pathology, A.G.C. Wright (chair), at the 76th annual convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA.

Hallquist, M.N., & Wright, A.G.C. (March, 2014). What is a mixture model? A brief conceptual primer. Paper

presented as part of the symposium Dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models of personality and its pathology, A.G.C. Wright (chair), at the 76th annual convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA.

Hallquist, M.N., Wright, A.G.C., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (March, 2014). Mapping the longitudinal covariation of

personality, personality disorders, mood, and anxiety. Paper presented as part of the symposium Dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models of personality and its pathology, A.G.C. Wright (chair), at the 76th annual convention of the Society for Personality Assessment, Arlington, VA.

Creswell, K.G., Wright, A.G.C., Troxel, W. M., Ferrell, R.E., Flory, J.D., & Manuck, S.B. (March 14, 2014).

Oxytocin, social temperament, and social relationships. Poster presented at the 72nd annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Creswell, K.G., Wright, A.G.C., Troxel, W.M., Ferrell, R.E., Flory, J.D., & Manuck, S.B. (2014, February).

OXTR polymorphism predicts social relationships through its effects on social temperament. Poster presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.


Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Morey, L.C. (2013, November). Personality typologies as indicators of risk and resilience in PTSD. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Wright, A.G.C., & Simms, L.J. (2013, September). On the daily dynamics of personality pathology. Paper

presented as part of the symposium Major contemporary issues in personality pathology: Structure, dynamics, and diagnosis, A.G.C. Wright (chair), at the 27th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Oakland, CA.

Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., Krueger, R.F., Shade, N., Markon, K.E., & Morey, L.C. (2013, September). The

conjoint structure of DSM-5 pathological traits and Personality Assessment Inventory psychopathology constructs. Paper presented as part of the symposium on Personality disorder assessment, R.F. Krueger (chair), at the 13th International Congress on the Disorders of Personality, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Wright, A.G.C., Fisher, C.S., Kimber, J.M., Moore, F. & Simms, L.J. (2013, June). The daily expression of

pathological narcissism in the links between interpersonal stressors and emotions. Paper presented as part of the symposium Interpersonal and affective dynamics in personality and its pathology, A.G.C. Wright (chair), at the 3rd biannual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Charlotte, NC.

Cain, N.M. & Wright, A.G.C. (2013, June). A look at the development of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory.

Paper presented as part of the symposium Recent advances in the assessment of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder, J.D. Miller (chair), at the 3rd biannual meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Charlotte, NC.

Wright, A.G.C. & Simms, L.J. (2013, April). A meta-structural model of psychopathology: Integrating Axis I,

Axis II, and pathological trait models. Paper presented at the 1st annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Boston, MA.

Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Zanarini, M.C. (2013, April). The longitudinal association of five-factor

model traits and borderline personality disorder symptoms over 16 years. Paper presented at the 1st annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, Boston, MA.

Wright, A.G.C. & Pilkonis, P.A. (2013, March). Borderline personality disorder and interpersonal problem

stability: A yearlong prospective study. Paper presented as part of the symposium Assessing borderline personality C.J. Hopwood (chair) at the 75th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Diego, CA.

Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., & Zanarini, M.C. (2013, March). The longitudinal association of five-factor

model traits and borderline personality disorder symptoms over 16 years. Paper to be presented as part of the symposium Assessing borderline personality C.J. Hopwood (chair) at the 75th Annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Diego, CA.

Wright, A.G.C., Hallquist, M.N, Swartz, H.A., Frank, E., & Cyranowski, J.M. (2012, November). Modeling the

dynamics of psychopathology and psychotherapy using time varying effects models. Poster presented at the Clinical Research Methods and Statistics Special Interest Group Poster Session at the annual convention for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, National Harbor, MD.

Wright, A.G.C., Stepp, S.D., & Hipwell, A.E. (2012, October). The development, stability, and dynamics of

borderline personality pathology and functioning in adolescent women. Paper presented as part of the symposium Personality pathology and associated impairment: Structural and developmental


investigations L.J. Simms & A.G.C. Wright (chairs) at the 26th annual meeting for the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Donnellan, M.B., Wright, A.G.C., & Morey, L.C. (2012, October). Personality

heterogeneity in PTSD: Distinct temperament and interpersonal typologies. Poster presented at the 26th annual meeting for the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

Yalch, M.M., Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Wright, A.G.C., Markon, K.E., & Krueger, R.F. (2012, October).

The convergent structure of DSM-5 personality trait facets and FFM trait domains. Poster presented at the 26th annual meeting for the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Ann Arbor, MI.

Zimmermann, J. & Wright, A.G.C. (2012, May). Going beyond description in interpersonal construct

validation: A bootstrap method for assessing confidence limits of structural summary parameters. Paper presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Montreal, Canada.

Wright, A.G.C. & Zimmermann, J. (2012, May). Going beyond description in interpersonal construct

validation: Application of the bootstrap method to interpersonal problem profiles of personality disorders. Paper presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Montreal, Canada.

Pincus, A.L., Wright, A.G.C., Conroy, D.E., Hyde, A.L., & Ram, N. (2012, May). Exploring the construct

validity of the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems—Short Circumplex and the Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values using intensive repeated measures in naturalistic settings. Paper presented at the 15th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Montreal, Canada.

Wright, A.G.C., Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Markon, K.E., Pincus, A.L. & Krueger, R.F. (2012, March). The

hierarchy of DSM-5 pathological personality traits. Paper presented as part of the symposium The DSM-5 personality traits: Measurement, structure, and associations A.G.C. Wright (chair) at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

Hopwood, C.J., Thomas, K.M., Markon, K.E., Wright, A.G.C., & Krueger, R.F. (2012, March). DSM-5 personality traits and DSM-IV personality disorders. Paper presented as part of the symposium The DSM-5 personality traits: Measurement, structure, and associations A.G.C. Wright (chair) at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

Wright, A.G.C., Morse, J.Q., Hallquist, M.N., & Pilkonis, P.A. (2012, March) Modeling interpersonal heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder using latent mixture modeling. Paper presented as part of the symposium Personality typologies: Empirical approaches and clinical utility C.J. Hopwood (Chair) at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

Thomas, K.M., Wright, A.G.C., Krueger, R.F., A.L. Pincus, Markon, K.E., & Hopwood, C.J. (2012, March). Are the proposed DSM-5 personality disorders reflected in an empirically derived typology of the DSM-5 personality traits? Paper presented as part of the symposium Personality typologies: Empirical approaches and clinical utility C.J. Hopwood (Chair) at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

Wright, A.G.C., Trucco, E.M., & Colder, C.R. (2012, March). A longitudinal study of adolescent personality development. Poster presented at the 14th biennial meeting for the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, Canada.


Bachrach, R.L., Wright, A.G.C., Colder, C. R., & Read, J.P. (2011, November). The course of PTSD symptomatology across the first year of college: A latent transition analysis. Poster presented at the Disaster and Trauma Special Interest Group at the 45th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Toronto, Canada.

Bachrach, R.L., Wright, A.G.C., & Read, J.P. (2011, November). The structure of PTSD symptomatology in trauma-exposed college students: Latent class analysis of self-report and clinical interview data. Poster presented at the 45th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Toronto, Canada.

Wright, A.G.C. & Lenzenweger, M.F. (October, 2011). Overview of the longitudinal study of personality disorders. Presented as part of the invited symposium Emerging adulthood in a longitudinal context. K.H. Trzesniewski & M.B. Donnellan (Chairs) the 5th annual Conference of Emerging Adulthood, Providence, RI.

Hopwood, C.J. & Wright, A.G.C. (2011, September). The role of pathoplastic personality characteristics in psychiatric taxonomy. Paper presented as part of the symposium Articulating key features of an empirically based model of psychopathology. R.F. Krueger (Chair) the 25th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Boston, MA.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2011, August). Departures and arrivals: Maturation of personality and the course of personality pathology. Paper presented as part of the symposium Charting the development of personality pathology using genes, environment, and basic personality/temperament as our guides. M.F. Lenzenweger & A.G.C Wright (Chairs). American Psychological Association national convention, Washington, DC.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2011, June). Interpersonal development, stability, and change in young adulthood. Paper presented at the 14th annual meeting for the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Zurich, Switzerland.

Pincus, A.L., Wright, A.G.C., Hopwood, C.J., & Krueger, R.F. (2011, June). An interpersonal analysis of pathological personality traits in DSM-5. Paper presented at the 14th annual meeting for the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Zurich, Switzerland.

Grosse-Holtforth, M., Altenstein, D., Wright, A.G.C., Ansell, E.B., Caspar, F. (2011, June). Interpersonal problems of depressed outpatients. Paper presented at the 14th annual meeting for the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Zurich, Switzerland.

Ansell, E.B., Cain, N.M., Wright, A.G.C., Hopwood, C.J., Thomas, K.M., & Grilo, C.M. (2011, June). Interpersonal subtypes and pathoplasticity in course of major depression. Paper presented at the 14th annual meeting for the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Zurich, Switzerland.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2011, June). A new approach to measuring personality stability and change: Latent transition analysis. Paper presented as part of the Rising Stars Symposium at the 2nd biennial meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Riverside, CA.

Pincus, A.L. & Wright, A.G.C. (2011, June). Narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability: Clinical examples and research implications. Paper presented as part of the symposium The paradox of narcissism: From individual differences to clinical manifestations at the 2nd biennial meeting of the Association for Research in Personality, Riverside, CA.


Ansell, E.B., Wright, A.G.C., & Grilo, C.M. (2011, May). Interpersonal trait profiles and risk in patients who made suicide attempts. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.

Wright, A.G.C. (2011, March). Bifactor and confirmatory factor analysis of the Pathological Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Scale. Paper presented as part of the symposium A new approach to the assessment of obsessive compulsive personality A. Pinto (chair). Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Wright, A.G.C. & Pincus, A.L. (2011, March). The interpersonal profiles of narcissism. Paper presented as part of the symposium Further advances in the assessment of pathological narcissism. M.R. Lukowitsky (chair). Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, Cambridge, MA.

Thomas, K.M., Hopwood, C.J., Donnellan, M.B., Wright, A.G.C., & Lukowitsky, M.R. (2011, March). Quantifying the Construct Validity of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Paper presented as part of the symposium Further advances in the assessment of pathological narcissism. M.R. Lukowitsky (chair). Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, Cambridge, MA.

Sims, J.A, Thomas, K.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Hopwood, C.J. (2011, March). Diagnostic overlap of passive-aggressive and negativistic personality disorders. Poster presented at the Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Wright, A.G.C., Bachrach, R.L., Hohn, N.J., Gowda, A.S., & Pincus, A.L. (2010, November). Currents of interpersonal dependency in the DSM personality disorders. Poster presented at the 44th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.

Wright, A.G.C., Hopwood, C.J., Gowda, A.S., Hohn, N.J., & Pincus, A.L. (2010, November). The structure and construct validity of passive-aggressive/negativistic personality disorder. Poster presented at the 44th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.

Trucco, E.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Colder, C.R. (2010, November). Replication and revision of the circumplex structure of adolescent interpersonal goals. Poster presented at the 44th annual convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, San Francisco, CA.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2010, October). Comparing methods to model the relationship between personality and its pathology. Poster presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Seattle, WA.

Wright, A.G.C. & Pincus, A.L. (2010, June). Cross-sectional Intraindividual Variability in Interpersonal Functioning. Paper presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Philadelphia, PA.

Roche, M.J., Hopwood, C.J., Ansell, E.B., Pincus, A.L., Wright, A.G.C., & Lukowitsky, M.R. (2010, June). The Influence of Relationship Context on Interpersonal Sensitivities. Poster presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Philadelphia, PA.

Wright, A.G.C. (2010, March). The quantitative-qualitative quandary in the personality and psychopathology relationship. Paper presented as part of the symposium Personality assessment in the context of the DSM-V. C.J. Hopwood (Chair). Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, San Jose, CA.


Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Conroy, D.E. (2010, March). The interpersonal impacts of narcissism. Paper presented as part of the paper session on Advancements in the assessment of pathological narcissism. A.G.C. Wright (Chair). Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, San Jose, CA.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Ram, N. (2009, May). A new approach to interpersonal analysis: The interpersonal radex. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Toronto, CA.

Pincus, A.L., Hopwood, C.J., Ansell, E.B., Wright, A.G.C., Lukowitsky, M.R., & Roche, M.J. (2009, May). Initial construction and validation of the Interpersonal Stressors Circumplex. Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research, Toronto, CA.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2009, March). Using the Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales-Big Five (IAS-B5) to predict stability and change in personality pathology in the Longitudinal Personality Disorder Study Sample. Paper presented at the symposium on Integrating personality, psychopathology, and psychotherapy using interpersonal assessment. A.L. Pincus (Chair). Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Wright, A.G.C., Lukowitsky, M.R., & Pincus, A.L. (2008, August). The hierarchical factor structure of the

Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI). Poster presented at the American Psychological Association national convention, Boston, MA.

Kraus, D., Castonguay, L.G., Pincus, A.L., Boswell, J.F., & Wright, A.G.C. (2008, June). Treatment Outcome

Package for Children: An examination of its factor structure. Paper presented at the symposium on The TOP: Psychometric qualities of adult, adolescent, and child versions of a treatment outcome battery designed for naturalistic settings. L.G. Castonguay (chair). Society for Psychotherapy Research annual meeting, Barcelona, SP.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., Rohlfing, J.E., Lehner, A.N. and Roche, M.J. (2008, May) Cognitive adherence to circumplex structure, parataxic distortion, and the interpersonal transaction cycle. Paper presented at the symposium on Normative and non-normative adherence to the interpersonal circumplex, T.J.G. Tracey (chair). Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research annual meeting, Tempe, AZ.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., Conroy, D.E., & Hilsenroth, M.J. (2008, March). Integrating methods to optimize circumplex description and comparison of groups. Paper presented at the symposium on Jerry Wiggins’ legacy: Advances in the circumplex approach to personality assessment, A.L. Pincus (chair). Society for Personality Assessment annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., & Conroy, D.E. (2008, February). The pathoplastic relationship between

interpersonal problems and shame based fear of failure. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM.

Wright, A.G.C., Kovach, B.C., Propst, M.E., Pincus, A.L., & Conroy, D.E. (2007, June). Forms of narcissism,

fear of failure, and interpersonal problems. Paper presented at the symposium on Distinguishing pathological narcissism and normal narcissistic traits: On and beyond the circumplex. Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research annual meeting, Madison, WI.

Cain, N.M., Lukowitsky, M.R., Wright, A.G.C., Pincus, A.L., Conroy, D.E. (2007, June). Assessment of

narcissistic traits: Expanding the interpersonal nomological net. Paper presented at the symposium on


Distinguishing pathological narcissism and normal narcissistic traits: On and beyond the circumplex. Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research annual meeting, Madison, WI.

Wright, A.G., Bachrach, R.L., & Markey, P.M. (2006, May). Retrospective complementarity in interpersonal

interactions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Wright, A.G., Giumetti, G.W., Markey, P.M. (2006, March). Evaluation of the complementarity and subjective

valence of interpersonal interactions. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Lowmaster, S., Wright, A.G., & Markey, P.M. (2006, March).Complementarity: Gender specificity or gender

neutrality. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Baltimore, MD Giumetti, G.W., Grisillo, J., Wright, A.G., & Markey, P.M. (2006, March). Violent video games and aggression:

The moderating role of personality. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting, Baltimore, MD.

Wright, A.G., Giumetti, G.W., Markey, P.M., & Markey, C.N. (2006, January). Examining the link between the

interpersonal styles of romantic partners and depression. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual meeting, Palm Springs, CA.

Pimentel, C.A., Pincus, A.L., Ansell, E.B., White, C., Uliaszek, A., Wright, A.G., Reid, J.J., & Cain, N. M.

(2004, July). Initial derivation and validation of the Vulnerable Narcissism Scale. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association annual meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

Creswell, K.G. & Wright, A.G.C. (August, 2012). An introduction to cognitive behavioral therapy: Skills and

applications. Training given to the Dual Diagnosis Inpatient Treatment Unit staff, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Wright, A.G.C. (April, 2011). Development and maturation in personality, stability and change in personality

disorder. Talk given as part of the Pennsylvania State University Psychological Clinic grand rounds. Wright, A.G.C. (April, 2008). Circular modeling of human behavior: Directional statistics and cosine curve

modeling applied to interpersonal functioning. Talk given as part of the requirements for the predoctoral fellowship from the Quantitative Social Science Initiative, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Wright, A.G.C. (November, 2007). Beyond undergraduate psychology. Talk given to The Pennsylvania State

University Altoona Campus Chapter of the Psi Chi Honor Society, Altoona, PA.

WORKSHOPS


Wright, A.G.C. (March, 2012). Latent Class and Latent Profile Analysis. Half-day conference workshop given at the annual meeting for the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.

Wright, A.G.C. (June, 2012). Cross-sectional and longitudinal categorical latent variable modeling in

personality and its pathology. Invited methodological workshop given to the personality and personality disorder group at the University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

RESEARCH SUPPORT Current R01 MH103313 Roecklein (PI) 09/17/2014-07/31/2019 National Institute of Mental Health Melanopsin Photosensitivity and Psychopathology The aim of this study is to determine if the melanopsin pathway, originating in the retina and projecting to central brain areas, is involved in dysphoric mood, over eating, over sleeping, and fatigue in winter. My role on this project is to serve as the quantitative methodologist, developing and implementing multilevel models to test the primary aims. Role: Co-Investigator Effort: 7% R01 AG041778 Kamarck (PI) 07/15/2013-06/30/2018 National Institute of Aging Social integration, daily social interaction, and health risk pathways in midlife. The goal of this research is to examine how patterns of daily social interaction (as assessed by EMA methods) may help to explain observed associations between social integration and affective, biological, and behavioral markers of health risk. On this project is to serve as the quantitative methodologist, developing and implementing statistical models to test the primary aims. Role: Co-Investigator Effort: 5% Completed F32 MH097325 Wright (PI) 01/01/2013-12/31/2013 National Institute of Mental Health Total cost: $100,121.00 Dynamic Expression of Antagonistic Personality Pathology in Daily Life Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship This project investigates the dynamic expression of maladaptive personality traits in daily life in order to clarify the nature, variability, and predictors of dysfunctional behavior in a sample of patients with personality disorders over a 100-day period. Role: PI T32 MH018269 Pilkonis (PI) 06/15/2012-12/31/2012 National Institute of Mental Health Clinical Research Training for Psychologists Post-doctoral research training focused on working effectively with patients with major psychiatric disorders, collaborating with members of an interdisciplinary medical team, and to compete successfully for independent research funding.


Role: Trainee F31 MH087053 Wright (PI) 06/01/2010-08/31/2011 National Institute of Mental Health Total costs: $56,338.00 Comparing Methods to Model Stability and Change in Personality and its Pathology Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral Fellowship This study used quantitative methodology to articulate emerging conceptions of personality disorder (PD) that account for simultaneous change in normative personality and PD over time, and non-normality in the distribution of PD and how this affects their relationship. Role: PI Young Investigator Award Ansell (PI) 02/01/2010-01/31/2012 American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Support: $3,000.00 Provided statistical consultation to develop models of the relationship between personality disorders and suicidal behaviors, including differentiating predictors of single and multiple suicide attempts. Role: Statistical Consultant R01 DA018993 Read (PI) 05/01/2006-01/31/2012 National Institute of Drug Abuse Support: $500.00 Trauma, Trauma Sequelae, and Substance Use in College Developed a latent transition model of post traumatic stress symptoms and alcohol use over the first year of college for a four-year long, prospective, multi-wave study of college students matriculating into school with post-traumatic stress disorder and matched controls. Role: Statistical Consultant

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

2006-2011 – Staff Clinician – Penn State Psychological Clinic

2008-2009 – Neuropsychological Assessor – Penn State Psychological Clinic

2011-2012 – Psychological Intern – Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

2012-2013 – Staff Clinician – University at Buffalo Psychological Services Center

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor: Structural Equation Modeling (Spring & Fall, 2015) – University of Pittsburgh

Abnormal Psychology (Summer, 2010; PSU World Campus) – Penn State Introduction to Psychology (Summer, 2008 & 2009) – Penn State

Clinical Supervisor: Advanced psychotherapy Practicum (Fall, 2013) – University at Buffalo

Introduction to psychotherapy (Summer, 2009) – Penn State Graduate Lecturer: Basic Research Methods in Psychology (Summer, 2007) – Penn State Teaching Assistant: Neuropsychological Assessment (Spring, 2010; Graduate course) – Penn State

Forensic Psychology (Spring, 2010) – Penn State Clinical Neuropsychology (Fall, 2009) – Penn State


Introduction to Personality (Spring, 2009) – Penn State The Self and Social Judgment (Fall, 2008) – Penn State Development Throughout Adulthood (Spring, 2007) – Penn State Abnormal Psychology (Spring, 2007) – Penn State Madness in the First Person (Fall, 2006, 2009 [Honors]) – Penn State Introduction to Psychology (Fall, 2006) – Penn State

THESES

Honors Theses: Megan A. Schambura Samantha C. Dashineau (Chair) Master’s Theses: Marlissa C. Amole Doctoral Dissertations: Caiyan A. Zhang (Education)

SERVICE University of Pittsburgh:

Clinical Brown Bag Coordinator – 2014-2016

Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic:

Psychotherapy Training Committee – 2011-2012

Society for Interpersonal Theory and Research:

Student Representative to the Executive Committee – 2009-2011 Membership Committee Co-chair – 2012-current Member at Large – 2013-current Society for Research in Psychopathology:

Smadir Levin Award Judge – 2015

Society for Personality Assessment:

President of the Society for Personality Assessment Graduate Student Association – 2010-2011. Society for Personality Assessment Board of Trustees – 2010-2011

Documents

AIDAN G. C. WRIGHT, Ph.D. - University of Pittsburgh · 2017-08-08 · Advisor: Patrick M. Markey, Ph.D. 1999 – 2003 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University