• PhD, University of Iowa

In the Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychometrics Laboratory, we pursue two interrelated programs of research broadly relevant to measurement of and theory related to personality and psychopathology: (a) research aimed at better understanding the phenotypic description and structure of personality and psychopathology, especially as related to personality pathology and the mood and anxiety disorders, and (b) applied psychometric research designed to create, improve upon, or evaluate psychological assessment tools.  In addition, we are interested in research aiming to translate the above line of research into clinically and practically useful applications.

• Emery, L., & Simms, L. J.  (in press).  Extending the self-other knowledge symmetry (SOKA) model to pathological traits.  Journal of Research in Personality.
• Evans, C. M., & Simms, L. J.  (2023).  Do self and interpersonal dysfunction mediate the association between adverse childhood experiences and personality pathology?  Personality and Mental Health, 17(3), 259–271.
• Ringwald, W.R., Emery, L., Khoo, S., Clark, L.A., Kotelnikova, Y., Scalco, M.D., Watson, D., Wright, A.G.C., & Simms, L. J. (2023). Structure of pathological personality traits through the lens of the CAT-PD model. Assessment, 30, 2276-2295.
• Williams, T. F., Vehabovic, N., & Simms, L. J.  (2023).  Developing and validating a facial emotion recognition task with graded intensity. Assessment, 30(3), 761-781.
• Dimitrova, J., & Simms, L. J.  (2022).  Construct validation of narrative coherence: Exploring links with personality functioning and other aspects of psychopathology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 13, 482-492.
• Simms, L. J., Wright, A. G. C., Cicero, D. C., Kotov, R., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N., Sellbom, M., Watson, D., Widiger, T. A., & Zimmermann, J.  (2022).  Development of measures for the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP):  A collaborative scale development project.  Assessment, 29, 3-16.
• Watson, D., Clark, L. A., Simms, L. J., & Kotov, R.  (2022).  Classification and assessment of fear and anxiety in personality and psychopathology.  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104878.
• Simms, L. J., Zelazny, K., Williams, T. F., & Bernstein, L.  (2019).  Does the number of response options matter?  Psychometric perspectives using personality questionnaire data.  Psychological Assessment, 31, 557-566.
• Evans, C., & Simms, L. J.  (2019).  The latent structure of self-harm.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 12-24.
• Evans, C., & Simms, L. J. (2018).  Assessing inter-model continuity between the Section II and Section III conceptualization of borderline personality disorder in DSM-5.  Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 9, 290-296.
• Williams, T. F., & Simms, L. J.  (2018).  Personality traits and maladaptivity: Unipolarity vs. bipolarity.  Journal of Personality, 86, 888-901.
• Wright, A. G. C., & Simms, L. J.  (2015). A metastructural model of mental disorders and pathological personality traits.  Psychological Medicine, 45, 2309-2319.
• Wright, A. G. C., & Simms, L. J.  (2014).  On the structure of personality disorder traits: Conjoint analyses of the CAT-PD, PID-5, and NEO-PI-3 trait models.  Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 5, 43-54.
• Simms, L. J., Goldberg, L. R., Roberts, J. E., Watson, D., Welte, J., & Rotterman, J. H.  (2011).  Computerized Adaptive Assessment of Personality Disorder: Introducing the CAT-PD Project.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 93, 380-389.
• Simms, L. J., Watson, D., & Doebbeling, B. N.  (2002).  Confirmatory factor analyses of posttraumatic stress symptoms in deployed and non-deployed veterans of the Gulf War.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 111, 637-647.