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Overview

Susan C. South is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their primary field of study is psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, which accounts for the majority of their work. Other subfields include social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and health.

Their research topics cover a broad range within psychology and mental health, emphasizing personality disorders and psychopathology, attachment and relationship dynamics, mental health and psychiatry, mental health research topics, psychotherapy techniques and applications, personality traits and psychology, as well as health disparities and outcomes.

Frequent co-authors of Susan C. South include:

  • Robert F. Krueger
  • Roman Kotov
  • Nicholas R. Eaton
  • Madison Shea Smith
  • Miriam K. Forbes

Among frequent venues where their research is published are:

  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Clinical Psychological Science
  • World Psychiatry
  • Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Personality Disorders

Selected recent papers include:

  • Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): I. Psychosis superspectrum, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): II. Externalizing superspectrum, 2021, World Psychiatry
  • The distinction between symptoms and traits in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), 2020, Journal of Personality
  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Primer for Mental Health Researchers, 2021, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Where do neurodevelopmental conditions fit in transdiagnostic psychiatric frameworks? Incorporating a new neurodevelopmental spectrum, 2024, World Psychiatry

Susan C. South has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Cambridge University Press titled The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders in 2020.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Progress in achieving quantitative classification of psychopathology

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

  • A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Can Transform Mental Health Research

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

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

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  • The Heritability of Personality is not Always 50%: Gene-Environment Interactions and Correlations between Personality and Parenting

    Robert F. Krueger;Susan South;Wendy Johnson;William Iacono

  • Environmental adversity and increasing genetic risk for externalizing disorders.

    Brian M. Hicks;Susan C. South;Ana C. Dirago;William G. Iacono

  • Validity and utility of Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): I. Psychosis superspectrum.

    Roman Kotov;Katherine G Jonas;William T Carpenter;Michael N Dretsch

  • Psychopathy in women: structural modeling and comorbidity.

    Janet I Warren;Mandi L Burnette;Susan C South;Preeti Chauhan

  • Externalizing disorders: cluster 5 of the proposed meta-structure for DSM-V and ICD-11.

    R. F. Krueger;S. C. South

  • Personality disorders and violence among female prison inmates.

    Janet I. Warren;Mandi Burnette;Susan Carol South;Preeti Chauhan

  • Personality Disorder Symptoms and Marital Functioning

    Susan C. South;Eric Turkheimer;Thomas F. Oltmanns

  • Personality in a Hierarchical Model of Psychopathology

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

  • Criterion A of the AMPD in HiTOP

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

  • Gender bias in diagnostic criteria for personality disorders: an item response theory analysis.

    J. Serrita Jane;Thomas F. Oltmanns;Susan C. South;Eric Turkheimer

  • Contrasting prototypes and dimensions in the classification of personality pathology: evidence that dimensions, but not prototypes, are robust.

    N. R. Eaton;Robert Krueger;S. C. South;L. J. Simms

  • Factorial invariance of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale across gender.

    Susan C. South;Robert F. Krueger;William G. Iacono

  • Understanding the risk factors for violence and criminality in women: The concurrent validity of the PCL-R and HCR-20

    Janet I. Warren;Susan C. South;Mandi L. Burnette;Allison Rogers

  • Redefining Phenotypes to Advance Psychiatric Genetics: Implications From Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology

    Monika A. Waszczuk;Nicholas R. Eaton;Robert F. Krueger;Alexander J. Shackman

  • Comparing the constructs of antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy in a sample of incarcerated women.

    Janet I. Warren;Susan C. South

  • The meaning of comorbidity among common mental disorders.

    Nicholas R. Eaton;Susan C. South;Robert F. Krueger

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

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

  • Understanding general and specific connections between psychopathology and marital distress: A model based approach

    Susan C. South;Robert F. Krueger;William G. Iacono

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Nicholas R. Eaton
Nicholas R. Eaton Stony Brook University
William G. Iacono
William G. Iacono University of Minnesota
David Watson
David Watson University of Notre Dame
Thomas F. Oltmanns
Thomas F. Oltmanns Washington University in St. Louis
Aidan G. C. Wright
Aidan G. C. Wright University of Pittsburgh
Roman Kotov
Roman Kotov Stony Brook University
Lee Anna Clark
Lee Anna Clark University of Notre Dame
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud University of Oslo
Douglas B. Samuel
Douglas B. Samuel Purdue University West Lafayette

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