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Overview

Thomas F. Oltmanns is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on aspects of psychology, with a significant number of publications in the field. The main fields of study include:

  • Psychology

Their subfields of study cover various areas within psychology, such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Health
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

Key research topics addressed by Oltmanns include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Their frequent publication venues illustrate the dissemination of their work across various journals and include:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • Aging & Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychological Science

Oltmanns has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Ryan Bogdan
  • Patrick L. Hill
  • Sara A. Norton
  • Michael J. Boudreaux
  • Isaiah Spears

Recent papers published by Oltmanns cover diverse topics mainly in mental health, inflammation, personality, and aging, such as:

  • Black-White racial health disparities in inflammation and physical health: Cumulative stress, social isolation, and health behaviors (2021, Psychoneuroendocrinology)
  • Personality Pathology and Substance Misuse in Later Life: Perspectives from Interviewer-, Self-, and Informant-Reports (2021, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment)
  • Prospective self- and informant-personality associations with inflammation, health behaviors, and health indicators (2022, Health Psychology)
  • Inflammation is associated with future depressive symptoms among older adults (2021, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health)
  • Sense of purpose as a potential buffer between mental health and subjective cognitive decline (2022, International Psychogeriatrics)

Best Publications

  • Deliberate Self-Harm in a Nonclinical Population: Prevalence and Psychological Correlates

    E. David Klonsky;Thomas F. Oltmanns;Eric Turkheimer

  • Emotional experience and expression in schizophrenia and depression.

    Howard Berenbaum;Thomas F. Oltmanns

  • Informant-Reports of Personality Disorder: Relation to Self-Reports and Future Research Directions

    E. David Klonsky;Thomas F. Oltmanns

  • Schizophrenic performance when distractors are present: attentional deficit or differential task difficulty?

    Thomas F. Oltmanns;John M. Neale

  • You probably think this paper's about you: narcissists' perceptions of their personality and reputation.

    Erika N. Carlson;Simine Vazire;Thomas F. Oltmanns

  • Perceptions of people with personality disorders based on thin slices of behavior

    Thomas F Oltmanns;Jacqueline N.W Friedman;Edna R Fiedler;Eric Turkheimer

  • 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

  • Perceptions of Self and Others Regarding Pathological Personality Traits.

    Thomas F. Oltmanns;Eric Turkheimer

  • Selective attention in schizophrenic and manic psychoses: the effect of distraction on information processing.

    Thomas F. Oltmanns

  • The distinguishing characteristics of narrative identity in adults with features of Borderline Personality Disorder: An empirical investigation

    Jonathan M. Adler;Erica D. Chin;Aiswarya P. Kolisetty;Thomas F. Oltmanns

  • Person Perception and Personality Pathology

    Thomas F. Oltmanns;Eric Turkheimer

  • Marital Adjustment and the Efficacy of Behavior Therapy with Children

    Thomas F. Oltmanns;Joan E. Broderick;K. Daniel O'Leary

  • 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

  • Variation in narrative identity is associated with trajectories of mental health over several years.

    Jonathan M. Adler;Ariana F. Turner;Kathryn M. Brookshier;Casey Monahan

  • Traits Associated with Personality Disorders and Adjustment to Military Life: Predictive Validity of Self and Peer Reports

    Edna R. Fiedler;Thomas F. Oltmanns;Eric Turkheimer

  • Personality Disorder Symptoms and Marital Functioning

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

  • Measures to assess maladaptive variants of the five-factor model.

    Thomas A Widiger;Donald R Lynam;Joshua D Miller;Thomas F Oltmanns

  • The effect of anti-psychotic medication and diagnostic criteria on distractibility in schizophrenia.

    Thomas F. Oltmanns;Jacques Ohayon;John M. Neale

  • An item response theory analysis of DSM-IV personality disorder criteria across younger and older age groups.

    Steve Balsis;Marci E. J. Gleason;Carol M. Woods;Thomas F. Oltmanns

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

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

  • The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (Snap) Temporal Stability and Predictive Validity of the Diagnostic Scales

    Alison H. Melley;Thomas F. Oltmanns;Eric Turkheimer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer University of Virginia
Abigail Powers
Abigail Powers Emory University
Susan C. South
Susan C. South Purdue University West Lafayette
Joshua J. Jackson
Joshua J. Jackson Washington University in St. Louis
John M. Neale
John M. Neale Stony Brook University
Ryan Bogdan
Ryan Bogdan Washington University in St. Louis
E. David Klonsky
E. David Klonsky University of British Columbia
Howard Berenbaum
Howard Berenbaum University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Jennifer L. Tackett
Jennifer L. Tackett Northwestern University

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