Allan Clifton
I received my B.A. from Haverford College in 1995, where Doug Davis served as my primary research mentor. After graduating from Haverford, I received an Intramural Research Training Award to work at the National Institute of Mental Health. At NIMH I worked primarily with Anil Malhotra, in the Experimental Therapeutics Branch, on a study of the pharmacogenetics of schizophrenia. I attended graduate school at the University of Virginia, where I was fortunate to join the Peer Nomination Project of Personality, run by Eric Turkheimer and Tom Oltmanns. Our research centered on the discrepancies between self-report and informant-report in the assessment of personality and personality disorders. My doctoral thesis was a social network analysis of self- and informant-ratings of personality pathology in more than 800 military recruits. After completing my clinical internship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, I received my PhD in January 2005.
I completed a two-year research postdoctoral fellowship (funded by a NIMH T32 training grant) at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, where I worked with Paul Pilkonis. Our research focused on developing new models of interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder. I continue to collaborate with Dr. Pilkonis' lab, and am serving as a consultant on a new R01 which incorporates my social network measures with a community and clinical study of borderline PD.
I joined the Vassar College Department of Psychology in 2006, where I am continuing my research on the assessment and conceptualization of normal and pathological personality. My teaching centers around courses on personality, psychopathology, and statistical analysis. For more information on my research, teaching, and professional activities, click here for the most recent copy of my CV.
Research Assistants 2006-2007
- Laura Kuper
- Sarah Fraser
- Cara Grieco
- Mike Newmark
- Julie Ebenstein
- Joanna Weill
