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Lynam, Donald R.

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Donald R. Lynam is a Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Prior to coming to Purdue University, Lynam was a faculty member at the University of Kentucky from 1995 until 2006. He is a clinical psychologist who studies, broadly, the role of individual differences in deviant behavior across the lifecourse.

Early Life and Educational Background

Lynam was born on April 5, 1967, in Cincinnati, OH. He lived for 5 years there as his father completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Health. His family then moved to Long Island and lived in Hicksville for 5 years and East Northport for another 4 years. Prior to beginning high school, Lynam’s family moved to Baton Rouge, LA. He graduated in 1985 from Baton Rouge High School as a rather undistinguished student with a great appreciation of alternative music and punk rock. As an undistinguished student with good SAT scores and an undeserved arrogance, Lynam applied to top universities...

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Selected Papers

Juvenile Psychopathy

  • Lynam, D. R. (1996). The early identification of chronic offenders: Who is the fledgling psychopath? Psychological Bulletin, 120, 209–234.

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  • Lynam, D. R. (1997). Pursuing the psychopath: Capturing the fledgling psychopath in a nomological net. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 425–438.

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  • Lynam, D. R., & Gudonis, L. (2005). The development of psychopathy. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 381–408.

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  • Lynam, D. R., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., Loeber, R., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (2007a). Longitudinal evidence that psychopathy scores in early adolescence predict adult psychopathy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 155–165.

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  • Lynam, D. R., Derefinko, K. J., Caspi, A., Loeber, R., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (2007b). The content validity of juvenile psychopathy: An empirical examination. Psychological Assessment, 19, 363–367.

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  • Lynam, D. R., Charnigo, R., Moffitt, T. E., Raine, A., Loeber, R., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. (2009). The stability of psychopathy across adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 21, 1133–1153.

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  • Vize, C. E., Lynam, D. R., Lamkin, J., Miller, J. D., & Pardini, D. (2016). Identifying essential features of juvenile psychopathy in the prediction of later antisocial behavior: Is there an additive, synergistic, or curvilinear role for fearless dominance? Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 572–590.

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Adult Psychopathy

  • Derefinko, K. J., & Lynam, D. R. (2007). Using the FFM to conceptualize psychopathy: A test using a drug abusing sample. Journal of Personality Disorders, 21, 638–656.

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  • Lynam, D. R., & Miller, J. D. (2015). Psychopathy from a basic trait perspective: The utility of a five-factor model approach. Journal of Personality, 83, 611–626.

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  • Lynam, D.R. & Widiger, T.A. (2007). Using a general model of personality to identify the basic elements of psychopathy. Journal of Personality Disorders, 21, 160–178.

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  • Lynam, D. R., Gaughan, E. T., Miller, J. D., Miller, D. J., Mullins-Sweatt, S., & Widiger, T. A. (2011). Assessing the basic traits associated with psychopathy: Development and validation of the elemental psychopathy assessment. Psychological Assessment, 23, 108–124.

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  • Miller, J. D., & Lynam, D. R. (2003). Psychopathy and the five factor model of personality: A replication and extension. Journal of Personality Assessment, 81, 168–178.

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  • Miller, J. D., Lynam, D. R., Widiger, T., & Leukefeld, C. (2001). Personality disorders as extreme variants of common personality dimensions: Can the five factor model adequately represent psychopathy? Journal of Personality, 69, 253–276.

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Personality Disorders

  • Lynam, D. R. (2012). Assessment of maladaptive variants of five factor model traits. Journal of Personality, 80, 1593–1614.

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  • Lynam, D. R., & Widiger, T. (2001). Using the five factor model to represent the personality disorders: An expert consensus approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 401–412.

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  • Lynam, D.R. & Widiger, T.A. (2007). Using a general model of personality to understand sex differences in the personality disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 21, 583–602.

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  • Miller, J. D., Bagby, R. M., Pilkonis, P. A., Reynolds, S. K., & Lynam, D. R. (2005). A simplified technique for scoring the DSM-IV personality disorders with the five-factor model. Assessment, 12, 404–415.

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  • Trull, T. J., Widiger, T. A., Lynam, D. R., & Costa, P. T. (2003). Borderline personality disorder from the perspective of general personality functioning. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 193–202.

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  • Vachon, D. D., Lynam, D. R., Widiger, T. A., Miller, J. D., McCrae, R. R., & Costa, P. T. (2013). Basic traits predict the prevalence of personality disorder across the lifespan: The example of psychopathy. Psychological Science, 24, 698–705.

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Impulsivity

  • Adams, Z. W., Kaiser, A. J., Lynam, D. R., Charnigo, R. J., & Milich, R. (2012). Drinking motives as mediators of the impulsivity-substance use relation: Pathways for negative urgency, lack of premeditation, and sensation seeking. Addictive Behaviors, 37, 848–855.

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  • Chester, D., Lynam, D., Milich, R., Powell, D., Andersen, A., & DeWall, C. N. (2016). How do negative emotions impair self-control? A neural model of negative urgency. Neuroimage, 132, 43–50.

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  • Joseph, J., Liu, X., Jiang, Y., Lynam, D., & Kelly, T. (2009). Neural correlates of emotional reactivity in sensation seeking. Psychological Science, 20, 215–223.

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  • Lynam, D. R., & Miller, J. D. (2004). Personality pathways to impulsive behavior and their relations to deviance: Results from three samples. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 20, 319–342.

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  • Whiteside, S. P., & Lynam, D. R. (2001). The five factor model and impulsivity: Using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 30, 669–689.

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  • Whiteside, S. P., & Lynam, D. R. (2003). Understanding the role of impulsivity and externalizing psychopathology in alcohol abuse: Application of the UPPS impulsive behavior scale. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 11, 210–217.

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General Antisocial Behavior

  • Broidy, L. M., Nagin, D. S., Tremblay, R. E., Brame, B., Dodge, K., Fergusson, D., Horwood, J., Loeber, R., Laird, R., Lynam, D., Moffitt, T., Bates, J., Petit, G., & Vitaro, F. (2003). Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: A six site, cross national study. Developmental Psychology, 39, 222–245.

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  • Caspi, A., Lynam, D., Moffitt, T. E., & Silva, P. (1993). Unraveling girls’ delinquency: Biological, dispositional, and contextual contributions to adolescent misbehavior. Developmental Psychology, 29, 19–30.

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  • Flory, K., & Lynam, D. R. (2003). The relation between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and substance abuse: What role does conduct disorder play? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 6, 1–16.

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  • Flory, K., Milich, R., Lynam, D. R., Leukefeld, C., & Clayton, R. (2003). Relation between childhood disruptive behavior disorders and substance abuse in young adulthood: The ADHD/CD group is at unique risk. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 17, 151–159.

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  • Jones, S. E., Miller, J. D., & Lynam, D. R. (2011). Personality, antisocial behavior, and aggression: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Criminal Justice, 39, 329–337.

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  • Lynam, D. R., Moffitt, T. E., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M. A. (1993). Explaining the relation between IQ and delinquency: Class, race, test motivation, school achievement, or self-control? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 102, 187–196.

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  • Lynam, D. R., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T. E., Wikström, P. O., Loeber, R., & Novak, S. P. (2000). The interaction between impulsivity and neighborhood context on offending: The effects of impulsivity are stronger in poorer neighborhoods. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109, 563–574.

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  • Raine, A., Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Loeber, R., Stouthamer-Loeber, M., & Lynam, D. (2005). Neurocognitive impairments in boys on the life-course persistent antisocial path. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 114, 38–49.

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  • Vachon, D. D., Lynam, D. R., & Johnson, J. (2014). The (non)relation between empathy and aggression: Surprising results from a meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 751–773.

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Lynam, D. (2017). Lynam, Donald R.. 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_2213-1

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