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Overview

Aaron L. Pincus is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology. Other subfields of their work include experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, social psychology, and philosophy.

Their main topics of research cover a broad range of areas within mental health and personality studies. These topics include personality disorders and psychopathology, personality traits and psychology, mental health research topics, mental health and psychiatry, psychotherapy techniques and applications, behavioral health and interventions, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Pincus include the following:

  • "Age and gender differences in narcissism: A comprehensive study across eight measures and over 250,000 participants.", 2023, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "It's time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders.", 2022, American Psychologist
  • "Contemporary integrative interpersonal theory: Integrating structure, dynamics, temporal scale, and levels of analysis.", 2023, Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science
  • "Importance of Self and Other in Defining Personality Pathology", 2020, Psychopathology
  • "Six assumptions of contemporary integrative interpersonal theory of personality and psychopathology", 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology

The researcher frequently collaborates with several colleagues. Among the most frequent co-authors are Christopher J. Hopwood, A. Esin Asan, Alexandra L. Halberstadt, Aidan G.C. Wright, and Chloe F. Bliton.

Pincus's publications have appeared in several academic venues, with the most frequent being the Journal of Personality Assessment, PsycTESTS Dataset, American Psychologist, Journal of Personality Disorders, and Assessment.

In addition to journal articles, Pincus has contributed to book publications. Notably, there is a forthcoming book titled The interpersonal situation: Contemporary integrative interpersonal theory, assessment, and psychotherapy. to be published by the American Psychological Association in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Initial Construction and Validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory

    Aaron L. Pincus;Emily B. Ansell;Claudia A. Pimentel;Nicole M. Cain

  • Construction of Circumplex Scales for the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems

    Lynn E. Alden;Jerry S. Wiggins;Aaron L. Pincus

  • Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

    Aaron L. Pincus;Mark R. Lukowitsky

  • Narcissism at the crossroads: phenotypic description of pathological narcissism across clinical theory, social/personality psychology, and psychiatric diagnosis.

    Nicole M. Cain;Aaron L. Pincus;Emily B. Ansell

  • Interpersonal analysis of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism.

    Kelly A. Dickinson;Aaron L. Pincus

  • A component analysis of cognitive-behavioral therapy for generalized anxiety disorder and the role of interpersonal problems

    T. D. Borkovec;Michelle G. Newman;Aaron L. Pincus;Richard Lytle

  • Conceptions of Personality Disorders and Dimensions of Personality

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Aaron Lee Pincus

  • The Hierarchical Structure of DSM-5 Pathological Personality Traits

    Aidan G.C. Wright;Katherine M. Thomas;Christopher J. Hopwood;Kristian E. Markon

  • Personality: Structure and Assessment

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Aaron L. Pincus

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

    Robert F. Krueger;Roman Kotov;David Watson;Miriam K. Forbes

  • Interpersonal Theory of Personality

    Aaron L. Pincus;Emily B. Ansell

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

    Christopher C. Conway;Miriam K. Forbes;Kelsie T. Forbush;Eiko I. Fried

  • The interpersonal core of personality pathology.

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Aidan G.C. Wright;Emily B. Ansell;Aaron L. Pincus

  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • The higher order factor structure and gender invariance of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory.

    Aidan G. C. Wright;Mark R. Lukowitsky;Aaron L. Pincus;David E. Conroy

  • Narcissistic Grandiosity and Narcissistic Vulnerability in Psychotherapy

    Aaron L. Pincus;Nicole M. Cain;Aidan G. C. Wright

  • Paradigms of Personality Assessment

    Jerry S. Wiggins;Rebecca S. Behrends;Yossef S. Ben-Porath;Sidney J. Blatt

  • Interpersonal Problems and Conceptions of Personality Disorders

    Aaron L. Pincus;Jerry S. Wiggins

  • The three faces of interpersonal dependency: structural analyses of self-report dependency measures.

    Aaron Lee Pincus;Michael B. Gurtman

  • Externalizing Pathology and the Five-Factor Model: A Meta-Analysis of Personality Traits Associated with Antisocial Personality Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, and Their Co-Occurrence

    Mark A. Ruiz;Aaron L. Pincus;John A. Schinka

  • NEO PI-R Predictors of Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Problems

    Mark A. Ruiz;Aaron L. Pincus;Kelly A. Dickinson

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Conroy
David E. Conroy Pennsylvania State University
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Nilam Ram
Nilam Ram Stanford University
Christopher J. Hopwood
Christopher J. Hopwood University of Zurich
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Michelle G. Newman
Michelle G. Newman Pennsylvania State University
Emily B. Ansell
Emily B. Ansell Pennsylvania State University
Kristian E. Markon
Kristian E. Markon University of Iowa
Denis Gerstorf
Denis Gerstorf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mark F. Lenzenweger
Mark F. Lenzenweger Binghamton University

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