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Overview

Donald R. Lynam is affiliated with Purdue University in West Lafayette, United States. The primary field of study is Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Applied Psychology.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Personality Traits and Psychology, Mental Health Research Topics, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, Mental Health and Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Donald R. Lynam include:

  • "Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn," 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)," 2020, Journal of Personality
  • "Tutorial: Power Analyses for Interaction Effects in Cross-Sectional Regressions," 2023, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "A Comparison of the Validity of Very Brief Measures of the Big Five/Five-Factor Model of Personality," 2020, Assessment
  • "Personality disorders as predictors of intimate partner violence: A meta-analysis," 2021, Clinical Psychology Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Donald R. Lynam include:

  • Joshua D. Miller
  • Colin Vize
  • Tianwei V. Du
  • Chelsea Sleep
  • Nathaniel L Phillips

Publication activity shows frequent contributions to the following venues:

  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Assessment
  • Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Personality Disorders
  • Journal of Personality Assessment

Best Publications

  • The Five Factor Model and impulsivity: using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity

    Stephen Perry Whiteside;Donald R. Lynam

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

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

  • Developmental Trajectories of Childhood Disruptive Behaviors and Adolescent Delinquency: A Six-Site, Cross-National Study

    Lisa M. Broidy;Daniel S. Nagin;Richard E. Tremblay;John E. Bates

  • The Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire: Differential Correlates of Reactive and Proactive Aggression in Adolescent Boys.

    Adrian Raine;Kenneth A. Dodge;Rolf Loeber;Lisa Gatzke-Kopp

  • Early identification of chronic offenders: who is the fledgling psychopath?

    Donald R. Lynam

  • Validation of the UPPS Impulsive Behaviour Scale: a Four-factor Model of Impulsivity

    Stephen P. Whiteside;Donald R. Lynam;Joshua D. Miller;Sarah K. Reynolds

  • Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Youth

    Kenneth A. Dodge;John D. Coie;Donald Lynam

  • ADHD Combined Type and ADHD Predominantly Inattentive Type Are Distinct and Unrelated Disorders

    Richard Milich;Amy C. Balentine;Donald R. Lynam

  • Using the five-factor model to represent the DSM-IV personality disorders: an expert consensus approach.

    Donald R. Lynam;Thomas A. Widiger

  • Explaining the relation between IQ and delinquency: Class, race, test motivation, school failure, or self-control?

    Donald Lynam;Terrie E. Moffitt;Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

  • Unraveling Girls' Delinquency: Biological, Dispositional, and Contextual Contributions to Adolescent Misbehavior

    Avshalom Caspi;Donald Lynam;Terrie E. Moffitt;Phil A. Silva

  • Pursuing the psychopath: capturing the fledgling psychopath in a nomological net.

    Donald R. Lynam

  • Longitudinal Evidence that Psychopathy Scores in Early Adolescence Predict Adult Psychopathy

    Donald R. Lynam;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Rolf Loeber

  • STRUCTURAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY AND THEIR RELATION TO ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR: A META‐ANALYTIC REVIEW*

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald Lynam

  • The interaction between impulsivity and neighborhood context on offending: The effects of impulsivity are stronger in poorer neighborhoods

    Donald R. Lynam;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Per-Olof H. Wikström

  • Understanding the role of impulsivity and externalizing psychopathology in alcohol abuse: Application of the UPPS Impulsive Behavior Scale.

    Stephen P. Whiteside;Donald R. Lynam

  • Personality, antisocial behavior, and aggression: A meta-analytic review

    Shayne E. Jones;Joshua D. Miller;Donald R. Lynam

  • Controversies in Narcissism.

    Joshua D Miller;Donald R Lynam;Courtland S Hyatt;W Keith Campbell

  • NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS PREDICTING PERSISTENT MALE DELINQUENCY

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Donald R. Lynam;Phil A. Silva

  • Psychopathy and the Five-factor model of personality: a replication and extension.

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald R. Lynam

  • Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions : Can the Five-Factor Model adequately represent psychopathy? : Personality dimensions and disorders

    Joshua D. Miller;Donald R. Lynam;Thomas A. Widiger;Carl Leukefeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua D. Miller
Joshua D. Miller University of Georgia
Thomas A. Widiger
Thomas A. Widiger University of Kentucky
Richard Milich
Richard Milich University of Kentucky
W. Keith Campbell
W. Keith Campbell University of Georgia
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Carl G. Leukefeld
Carl G. Leukefeld University of Kentucky
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Douglas B. Samuel
Douglas B. Samuel Purdue University West Lafayette
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt
Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt Oklahoma State University

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