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Overview

Randall T. Salekin is affiliated with the University of Alabama in the United States. Their scholarly contributions primarily focus on the fields of psychology, with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology. Additional subfields of their work include sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research addresses a variety of main topics, including:

  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Personality disorders and psychopathology
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Crime patterns and interventions
  • Child abuse and trauma
  • Stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology

Notable recent publications by Salekin include:

  • Reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in the assessment of risk for institutional violence: A cautionary note on DeMatteo et al. (2020), 2020, Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • 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
  • The efficacy of the PSYCHOPATHY.COMP program in reducing psychopathic traits: A controlled trial with male detained youth, 2021, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder - Parent (PSCD-P): Convergent Validity, Incremental Validity, and Reactions to Unfamiliar Peer Confederates, 2023, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy construct in preschool children, 2020, Journal of Criminal Justice

Salekin's research is frequently published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Assessment
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Salekin include:

  • Olivier F. Colins
  • Blair D. Batky
  • Robert D. Hare
  • Craig S. Neumann
  • Laura López-Romero

Best Publications

  • A review and meta-analysis of the psychopathy checklist and psychopathy checklist-revised: predictive validity of dangerousness

    Randall T. Salekin;Richard Rogers;Kenneth W. Sewell

  • A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis Relating the Hare Measures of Psychopathy to Antisocial Conduct

    Anne-Marie R. Leistico;Randall T. Salekin;Jamie DeCoster;Richard Rogers

  • Psychopathy and therapeutic pessimism: Clinical lore or clinical reality?

    Randall T Salekin

  • Construct validity of psychopathy in a female offender sample: a multitrait-multimethod evaluation.

    Randall T. Salekin;Richard Rogers;Kenneth W. Sewell

  • Psychopathy and recidivism among female inmates.

    Randall T. Salekin;Richard Rogers;Karen L. Ustad;Kenneth W. Sewell

  • Treatment of psychopathy: a review and brief introduction to the mental model approach for psychopathy.

    Randall T. Salekin;Courtney Worley;Ross D. Grimes

  • The Impact of Prenatal Maternal Risk, Fearless Temperament and Early Parenting on Adolescent Callous-Unemotional Traits: A 14-Year Longitudinal Investigation.

    Edward D. Barker;Bonamy R. Oliver;Essi Viding;Randall T. Salekin

  • Psychopathy, Empathy, and Perspective -Taking Ability in a Community Sample: Implications for the Successful Psychopathy Concept

    Jana L. Mullins-Nelson;Randall T. Salekin;Anne-Marie R. Leistico

  • Psychopathy and recidivism from mid-adolescence to young adulthood: cumulating legal problems and limiting life opportunities.

    Randall T. Salekin

  • Psychopathy and comorbidity in a young offender sample: taking a closer look at psychopathy's potential importance over disruptive behavior disorders.

    Randall T. Salekin;Anne-Marie R. Leistico;Craig S. Neumann;Tina M. DiCicco

  • A comparison of forensic and nonforensic malingerers: A prototypical analysis of explanatory models.

    Richard Rogers;Randall T. Salekin;Kenneth W. Sewell;Alan Goldstein

  • Psychopathy in youth and intelligence: an investigation of Cleckley's hypothesis.

    Randall T. Salekin;Craig S. Neumann;Anne-Marie R. Leistico;Alecia A. Zalot

  • A Meta-Analysis of Malingering on the MMPI-2:

    Richard Rogers;Kenneth W. Sewell;Randall T. Salekin

  • Convergent and discriminant validity of psychopathy factors assessed via self-report: a comparison of three instruments.

    Stephen D. Benning;Christopher J. Patrick;Randall T. Salekin;Anne-Marie R. Leistico

  • Research Review: What do we know about psychopathic traits in children?

    Randall T. Salekin

  • Psychopathy in children and adolescents: the need for a developmental perspective.

    Randall T. Salekin;Paul J. Frick

  • Youth with psychopathy features are not a discrete class: a taxometric analysis.

    Daniel C. Murrie;David K. Marcus;Kevin S. Douglas;Zina Lee

  • Utility of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5-Brief Form (PID-5-BF) in the Measurement of Maladaptive Personality and Psychopathology.

    Jaime L. Anderson;Jaime L. Anderson;Martin Sellbom;Randall T. Salekin

  • Psychopathy in Children and Adolescents: Key Issues in Conceptualization and Assessment.

    Randall T. Salekin

  • Factor Structure of Psychopathy in Youth: Testing the Applicability of the New Four-Factor Model

    Randall T. Salekin;Dia N. Brannen;Alecia A. Zalot;Anne-Marie Leistico

  • Construct validity of psychopathy in a community sample: a nomological net approach.

    Randall T. Salekin;Krista K. Trobst;Maria Krioukova

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers University of North Texas
Edward D. Barker
Edward D. Barker King's College London
Martin Sellbom
Martin Sellbom Monash University
Olivier F. Colins
Olivier F. Colins Ghent University
Kenneth W. Sewell
Kenneth W. Sewell Oklahoma State University
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas
Henrik Andershed
Henrik Andershed Örebro University
Kostas A. Fanti
Kostas A. Fanti University of Cyprus
John E. Lochman
John E. Lochman University of Alabama
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia

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