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Overview

Jennifer L. Tackett is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology. They have also contributed work in the fields of education and philosophy.

The main topics addressed in their research include personality disorders and psychopathology, mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality traits and psychology, mental health and psychiatry, bullying, victimization, and aggression, as well as cognitive abilities and testing.

Jennifer L. Tackett has published numerous papers, including recent works such as:

  • Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • 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
  • Criterion validity and relationships between alternative hierarchical dimensional models of general and specific psychopathology., 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Anatomy of a Psychological Theory: Integrating Construct-Validation and Computational-Modeling Methods to Advance Theorizing, 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Editorial Statement About JCCAP's 2023 Special Issue on Informant Discrepancies in Youth Mental Health Assessments: Observations, Guidelines, and Future Directions Grounded in 60 Years of Research, 2023, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

Frequent co-authors of Jennifer L. Tackett include:

  • Allison N. Shields
  • Cassandra M Brandes
  • Kathleen W. Reardon
  • Robert F. Krueger
  • Nicholas R. Eaton

Their research has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues such as:

  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Best Publications

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

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

  • Abandon Statistical Significance

    Blakeley B. McShane;David Gal;Andrew Gelman;Christian Robert

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

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

  • Evaluating models of the personality–psychopathology relationship in children and adolescents

    Jennifer L. Tackett

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

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

  • Personality and psychopathology: working toward the bigger picture.

    Robert F. Krueger;Jennifer Lee Tackett

  • Common genetic influences on negative emotionality and a general psychopathology factor in childhood and adolescence.

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Benjamin B. Lahey;Carol van Hulle;Irwin Waldman

  • Personality Traits in Childhood and Adolescence: Structure, Development, and Outcomes

    Christopher J. Soto;Jennifer L. Tackett

  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

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

  • Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum

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  • It's Time to Broaden the Replicability Conversation: Thoughts for and From Clinical Psychological Science.

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Scott O. Lilienfeld;Christopher J. Patrick;Sheri L. Johnson

  • Exposure to media and theory-of-mind development in preschoolers

    Raymond A. Mar;Jennifer L. Tackett;Chris Moore

  • Handbook of Personality Development

    Dan P McAdams;Rebecca L Shiner;Jennifer Tackett

  • Psychology's Replication Crisis and Clinical Psychological Science.

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Cassandra M. Brandes;Kevin M. King;Kristian E. Markon

  • The Hierarchical Structure of Childhood Personality in Five Countries: Continuity From Early Childhood to Early Adolescence

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Helena R. Slobodskaya;Raymond A. Mar;James Deal

  • A unifying perspective on personality pathology across the life span: developmental considerations for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Steve Balsis;Thomas F. Oltmanns;Robert F. Krueger

  • Personality in a Hierarchical Model of Psychopathology

    Thomas A. Widiger;Martin Sellbom;Michael Chmielewski;Lee Anna Clark

  • Conceptualizing and evaluating replication across domains of behavioral research.

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Blakeley B. McShane

  • Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP

    Thomas A. Widiger;Bo Bach;Michael Chmielewski;Lee Anna Clark

  • Are fit indices used to test psychopathology structure biased? A simulation study.

    Ashley L. Greene;Nicholas R. Eaton;Kaiqiao Li;Miriam K. Forbes

  • Symptom-based subfactors of DSM-defined conduct disorder: evidence for etiologic distinctions.

    Jennifer L. Tackett;Robert F. Krueger;William G. Iacono;Matthew K. McGue

  • A dimensional model of personality disorder: Incorporating DSM Cluster A characteristics.

    Jennifer Lee Tackett;Amy L Silberschmidt;Robert F. Krueger;Scott R. Sponheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
K. Paige Harden
K. Paige Harden The University of Texas at Austin
Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
Elliot M. Tucker-Drob The University of Texas at Austin
Irwin D. Waldman
Irwin D. Waldman Emory University
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University
Kristian E. Markon
Kristian E. Markon University of Iowa
Roman Kotov
Roman Kotov Stony Brook University
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Nicholas R. Eaton
Nicholas R. Eaton Stony Brook University
Miriam K. Forbes
Miriam K. Forbes Macquarie University

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