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126
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196
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

David Watson is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, philosophy, psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

Their work covers core topics including personality disorders and psychopathology, mental health research topics, mental health and psychiatry, personality traits and psychology, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, schizophrenia research and treatment, and psychotherapy techniques and applications.

The scientist has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, notable among which are:

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Quantitative Nosology Based on Consensus of Evidence (2021, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology)
  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) in psychiatric practice and research (2022, Psychological Medicine)
  • The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) (2020, Journal of Personality)
  • Development of Measures for the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Collaborative Scale Development Project (2021, Assessment)
  • What Is the General Factor of Psychopathology? Consistency of the p Factor Across Samples (2020, Assessment)

David Watson often collaborates with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Roman Kotov
  • Lee Anna Clark
  • Leonard J. Simms
  • Aidan G.C. Wright
  • Robert F. Krueger

Their research is regularly published in a set of journals including:

  • Assessment
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Frontiers in Psychology

David Watson has been recognized by the American Psychological Association as a Fellow since 1989.

Best Publications

  • Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark;Auke Tellegen

  • Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development

    Lee Anna Clark;David Watson

  • Toward a consensual structure of mood.

    David Watson;Auke Tellegen

  • Negative affectivity: The disposition to experience aversive emotional states

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

  • Tripartite model of anxiety and depression: psychometric evidence and taxonomic implications.

    Lee Anna Clark;David Watson

  • Measurement of social-evaluative anxiety.

    David Watson;Ronald Friend

  • The PANAS-X: Manual for the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule - Expanded Form

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

  • Health complaints, stress, and distress: exploring the central role of negative affectivity.

    David Watson;James W. Pennebaker

  • The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A Dimensional Alternative to Traditional Nosologies

    Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson;Thomas M. Achenbach

  • Linking "big" personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: a meta-analysis.

    Roman Kotov;Wakiza Gamez;Frank Schmidt;David Watson

  • The two general activation systems of affect: Structural findings, evolutionary considerations, and psychobiological evidence

    David Watson;David Wiese;Jatin Vaidya;Auke Tellegen

  • Temperament, personality, and the mood and anxiety disorders.

    Lee Anna Clark;David Watson;Susan Mineka

  • Positive and negative affectivity and their relation to anxiety and depressive disorders.

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark;Greg Carey

  • Initial construction of a maladaptive personality trait model and inventory for DSM-5.

    Robert F. Krueger;Jaime Derringer;Kristian E. Markon;David Watson

  • COMORBIDITY OF ANXIETY AND UNIPOLAR MOOD DISORDERS

    Susan Mineka;David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

  • Mood and temperament

    David Watson

  • On traits and temperament: general and specific factors of emotional experience and their relation to the five-factor model.

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

  • Extraversion and Its Positive Emotional Core

    David Watson;Lee Anna Clark

  • Testing a tripartite model: I. Evaluating the convergent and discriminant validity of anxiety and depression symptom scales.

    David Watson;Kris Weber;Jana Smith Assenheimer;Lee Anna Clark

  • Rethinking the mood and anxiety disorders: a quantitative hierarchical model for DSM-V.

    David Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee Anna Clark
Lee Anna Clark University of Notre Dame
Roman Kotov
Roman Kotov Stony Brook University
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Camilo J. Ruggero
Camilo J. Ruggero University of North Texas
Kelsie T. Forbush
Kelsie T. Forbush University of Kansas
Kristian E. Markon
Kristian E. Markon University of Iowa
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Leonard J. Simms
Leonard J. Simms University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Nicholas R. Eaton
Nicholas R. Eaton Stony Brook University
Miriam K. Forbes
Miriam K. Forbes Macquarie University

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