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Wright, Aidan G. C.

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Early Life and Educational Background

Wright was born on August 12, 1980, in El Paso, Texas. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Penn State University in 2003 and an M.S. in experimental psychology from Villanova University in 2006. He returned to Penn State University for a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, studying under Aaron L. Pincus and graduating in 2012 after completing a clinical internship at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Professional Career

Upon completion of his doctoral, Wright continued on as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, working with Paul A. Pilkonis, before transitioning to a National Institute of Mental Health-funded individual postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by Leonard J. Simms at the Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo. After a year, he started as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in...

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  • Pincus, A. L., Ansell, E. B., Pimentel, C. A., Cain, N. M., Wright, A. G. C., & Levy, K. N. (2009). The initial development and derivation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 21(3), 365–379.

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  • 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(1), 43–54.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., & Simms, L. J. (2015). A metastructural model of mental disorders and pathological personality traits. Psychological Medicine, 45(11), 2309–2319.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., & Simms, L. J. (2016). Stability and fluctuation of personality disorder features in daily life. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(5), 641–656.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Pincus, A. L., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (2010). Modeling stability and change in borderline personality disorder symptoms using the Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales – Big Five (IASR-B5). Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(6), 501–513.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Pincus, A. L., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (2011). Development of personality and the remission and onset of personality pathology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(6), 1351–1358.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Pincus, A. L., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (2012). Interpersonal development, stability, and change in young adulthood. Journal of Personality, 80(5), 1339–1372.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Thomas, K. M., Hopwood, C. J., Markon, K. E., Pincus, A. L., & Krueger, R. F. (2012). The hierarchical structure of DSM-5 pathological personality traits. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121(4), 951–957.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Hallquist, M. N., Beeney, J. E., & Pilkonis, P. A. (2013). Borderline personality pathology and the stability of interpersonal problems. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122(4), 1094–1100.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Pincus, A. L., & Lenzenweger, M. F. (2013). A parallel process growth model of avoidant personality disorder symptoms and personality traits. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 4(3), 230–238.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Hopwood, C. J., & Simms, L. J. (2015). Daily interpersonal and affective dynamics in personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(4), 503–525.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Hopwood, C. J., & Zanarini, M. C. (2015). Associations between changes in normal personality traits and borderline personality disorder symptoms over 16 years. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6(1), 1–11.

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  • Wright, A. G. C., Scott, L. N., Stepp, S. D., Hallquist, M. N., & Pilkonis, P. A. (2015). Personality pathology and interpersonal problem stability. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(5), 684–706.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Aidan G. C. Wright

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA

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Wright, A.G.C. (2016). Wright, Aidan G. C.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2083-1

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