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Overview

Ashley L. Watts is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, publishing 88 works primarily focused on areas including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, epidemiology, statistical and nonlinear physics, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research spans multiple interconnected topics, with a concentration on mental health research, personality disorders and psychopathology, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive abilities and testing, personality traits, and complex network analysis techniques.

Frequently collaborating with other scholars, Watts has worked notably with Douglas Steinley, Michael J. Brusco, Kenneth J. Sher, Robert F. Krueger, and Roman Kotov. This network of coauthors supports a consistent publication output in various scholarly journals.

Watts's work has been published predominantly in these venues:

  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • Psychological Methods
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Assessment

Among Watts's recent papers are:

  • "Meaningful associations in the adolescent brain cognitive development study," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)," 2020, Journal of Personality
  • "Three recommendations based on a comparison of the reliability and validity of the predominant models used in research on the empirical structure of psychopathology," 2021, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • "The etiologic, theory-based, ontogenetic hierarchical framework of alcohol use disorder: A translational systematic review of reviews," 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • "Building Theories on Top of, and Not Independent of, Statistical Models: The Case of the p-factor," 2020, Psychological Inquiry

Best Publications

  • Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency: implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership.

    Scott O. Lilienfeld;Irwin D. Waldman;Kristin Landfield;Ashley L. Watts

  • Successful Psychopathy A Scientific Status Report

    Scott O. Lilienfeld;Ashley L. Watts;Sarah Francis Smith

  • An examination of the Dirty Dozen measure of psychopathy: a cautionary tale about the costs of brief measures.

    Joshua D. Miller;Lauren R. Few;L. Alana Seibert;Ashley Watts

  • The Double-Edged Sword of Grandiose Narcissism Implications for Successful and Unsuccessful Leadership Among U.S. Presidents

    Ashley L. Watts;Scott O. Lilienfeld;Sarah Francis Smith;Joshua D. Miller

  • Meaningful associations in the adolescent brain cognitive development study

    Anthony Steven Dick;Daniel A. Lopez;Ashley L. Watts;Steven Heeringa

  • Psychopathy Deconstructed and Reconstructed: Identifying and Assembling the Personality Building Blocks of Cleckley's Chimera.

    Scott O. Lilienfeld;Ashley L. Watts;Sarah Francis Smith;Joanna M. Berg

  • Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in everyday life: results from a large community survey

    Scott O. Lilienfeld;Robert D. Latzman;Ashley L. Watts;Sarah F. Smith

  • Riskier Tests of the Validity of the Bifactor Model of Psychopathology

    Ashley L. Watts;Holly E. Poore;Irwin D. Waldman

  • What features of psychopathy might be central? A network analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) in three large samples.

    Bruno Verschuere;Sophia van Ghesel Grothe;Lourens Waldorp;Ashley L. Watts

  • Does psychopathy manifest divergent relations with components of its nomological network depending on gender

    Joshua D. Miller;Ashley Watts;Shayne E. Jones

  • Misconceptions regarding psychopathic personality: implications for clinical practice and research

    Joanna M Berg;Sarah F Smith;Ashley L Watts;Rachel Ammirati

  • The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP).

    Colin G DeYoung;Michael Chmielewski;Lee Anna Clark;David M Condon

  • Factor structure, measurement and structural invariance, and external validity of an abbreviated youth version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale.

    Ashley L Watts;Gregory T Smith;Deanna M;Kenneth J Sher

  • Three recommendations based on a comparison of the reliability and validity of the predominant models used in research on the empirical structure of psychopathology.

    Miriam K. Forbes;Ashley L. Greene;Holly F. Levin-Aspenson;Ashley L. Watts

  • Strengths and Weaknesses of Two Empathy Measures: A Comparison of the Measurement Precision, Construct Validity, and Incremental Validity of Two Multidimensional Indices:

    Brett A. Murphy;Thomas H. Costello;Ashley L. Watts;Yuk Fai Cheong

  • Do psychopathic individuals possess a misaligned moral compass? A meta-analytic examination of psychopathy's relations with moral judgment.

    Julia Marshall;Ashley L Watts;Scott O Lilienfeld

  • On the trail of the elusive successful psychopath.

    Sarah Francis Smith;Ashley L. Watts;Scott O. Lilienfeld

  • Building theories on top of, and not independent of, statistical models: The case of the p-factor.

    Ashley L. Watts;Sean P. Lane;Wes Bonifay;Douglas Steinley

  • Alcohol Use Disorder and Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorders.

    Ashley C Helle;Ashley L Watts;Timothy J Trull;Kenneth J Sher

  • Measuring the hierarchical general factor model of psychopathology in young adults.

    Benjamin B. Lahey;David H. Zald;Scott F. Perkins;Victoria Villalta-Gil

  • The nature and correlates of the dark triad: The answers depend on the questions.

    Ashley L. Watts;Irwin D. Waldman;Sarah Francis Smith;Holly E. Poore

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
Robert D. Latzman
Robert D. Latzman Georgia State University
Irwin D. Waldman
Irwin D. Waldman Emory University
Joshua D. Miller
Joshua D. Miller University of Georgia
Phillip K. Wood
Phillip K. Wood University of Missouri
Donald R. Lynam
Donald R. Lynam Purdue University West Lafayette
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis

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