Happy to share a new preprint! This paper uses a large longitudinal sample to ask if measures of childhood temperament provide incremental predictive validity above & beyond adult-based personality measures (i.e., the Big Five) for many life outcomes zpr.io/ZSKTGJRAhYhB

In press @ PD:TRT: Our group's take on treating #BPD, focusing on dimensions of the DSM's Alternative Model of PDs rather than symptoms. The result: A modular, personalized tx: BPD Compass 🧭 So excited to share that I created my first postprint: psyarxiv.com/mu3ez 🧵...

This seems very important -- excited to read. Also love the term "jingle-jangle jungle" 😄

I’ll be reviewing grad applications for clinical psych students interested in developing, testing, and disseminating treatments targeting the personality-based mechanisms that transdiagnostically (and ideographically) maintain psychopathology!

Love seeing the incredible work being done by my colleague Yara Mekawi, PhD to help shape shape and improve research on racial discrimination

Check out our newest paper using the alternative model for personality disorders (AMPD) in predicting treatment dropout among substance users with ⁦Marina bornovalova⁩ and ⁦Brenton Wiernik 🏳️‍🌈⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

When I answer commuter questions on the Long Island railroad

⚠️NEW PREPRINT looking @ self-other agreement on interpersonal behavior measured by EMA Aidan Wright We disentangled observable behavior, self-, & others’ perceptions w/ a multitrait-multirater-multimethod approach to gain insight into social functioning... psyarxiv.com/nes7b/

Last paper from our lab! Personality development and its associations with the bifactor model of psychopathology in adolescence Paula Etkin Elien De Caluwé doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.…

A RANT. Publishing is the coin of the realm in academia, but peer review is a sodden mess. Would a business delegate its most valued functions to unpaid volunteers? Journals depend on free labor from reviewers. This system sucked before the pandemic & is unsustainable now. 🧵

Are life events associated with changes to people’s personality systems? Happy to see this paper, in which we tackled this question, out now in the Journal of Personality! Free (!) link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/W… (1/10)

Honored to see our work on Med-PaLM, our medical large language model, published in nature today! nature.com/articles/s4158… Huge thanks to our all-star team @azizishekoofeh Tao Tu Alan Karthikesalingam Vivek Natarajan and many more teammates at Google AI Google Health!

I am recruiting a clinical psychology PhD student to join my lab in the data science cluster at SMU in Dallas, TX next year. We develop AI for personality and mental health in diverse samples (using NLP/ML). Email me for more info, see website (oltmannsj.com). #PonyUp!

New Study🔔Personality change across 4 years in world trade center responders. The authors found decreases in openness and extraversion but more specifically decreases in facets related to creativity, anger, anxiety, positive emotions and more. doi.org/10.1177/089020…

New paper! We heard from N = 376 current clinical psych PhD students about their training and clinical experiences with Pts with Antagonistic presentations (ANT-patients) and Pts with predominant Negative Affect (NA-patients). osf.io/a27te/ Some key findings...(1/8)

📣Excited to share I will be reviewing applications this fall for for the @WUSTL clinical psych PhD program! Students passionate about #eatingdisorders research, mHealth, & expanding access to care are strongly encouraged to apply!!

I’m considering PhD applications for the Personality, Mental Health, and AI lab for Fall 2025. Come join the clinical area at WashU Psych & Brain Sciences! oltmannsj.com

I'm really enjoying reading Eric Turkheimer's new book on the Nature Nurture Debate! It really is a superb read. Very clear, very engaging, very funny. Full of insights that make complex topics easy to understand. Highly recommend! amazon.com/Understanding-…

📢 Call for Papers! Special issue of Assessment on “Artificial Intelligence in Psychological Assessment: Techniques and Applications.” Abstracts due July 21, invited full papers Dec 1. Full call: bit.ly/Assessment_AI_… Adam P. Natoli Len Simms Sage Psychology