Christopher J. Hopwood, Ph.D., Director

My clinical and research interests can be broadly characterized as involving personality, psychopathology, interpersonal processes, and psychological assessment. I believe that it is helpful to conceptualize psychopathology and interpersonal processes involved in both clinical problems and psychotherapeutic interventions in an integrative model of personality. This integrative approach to clinical assessment is facilitated by effective measurement methods. For further information on my research, please see my CV.

Kate Thomas, B.A.

I joined the lab as a first year graduate student in the fall of 2009.  I completed my B.A. at Emory University in 2007, majoring in psychology with a minor in English.  My primary research interests include personality pathology, the relationships between personality and Axis I disorders, when and why therapy is effective, and intersections between psychology and literature/creativity.

Nick Schade, B.A.

I graduated Washington University in St. Louis in spring of 2011 with a B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology and joined the lab in the fall of the same year. My primary research interests regard the interface between personality and problems in life. I am also interested in how an individual’s interpretation of another’s behavior relates to personality and problems in life.