Early Life and Educational Background
David K. Marcus was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1961. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1983 with a B.A. in behavioral sciences, he began graduate studies in clinical psychology at Clark University. Dr. Morton Wiener, Marcus’ major professor, instilled in him the importance of considering the social and interpersonal context for understanding apparently dysfunctional or psychopathological behavior. After completing his predoctoral internship at the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services at Pennsylvania State University, Marcus received his Ph.D. in 1989 from Clark.
Professional Career
After a 1-year visiting appointment at Holy Cross College, Marcus accepted a tenure-track position at Sam Houston State University (1990–2005), where he helped to develop a clinical psychology doctoral program and served as director of clinical training (DCT). In August, 2005 (just in time to experience hurricane Katrina), Marcus joined...
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Selected Bibliography
Edens, J. F., Marcus, D. K., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Poythress, N. G. (2006). Psychopathic, not psychopath: Taxometric evidence for the dimensional structure of psychopathy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 131–144.
Edens, J. F., Marcus, D. K., & Ruiz, M. A. (2008). Taxometric analyses of borderline personality features in a large-scale male and female offender sample. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 705–711.
Edens, J. F., Marcus, D. K., & Morey, L. C. (2009). Paranoid personality has a dimensional latent structure: Taxometric analyses of community and clinical samples. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 545–553.
Grafeman, S. J., Barry, C. T., Marcus, D. K., & Leachman, L. L. (2015). Interpersonal perception of narcissism in an at-risk adolescent sample: A social relations analysis. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 92–100.
Mahaffey, K. J., & Marcus, D. M. (2006). Interpersonal perception of psychopathy: A social relations analysis. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 25, 53–74.
Marcus, D. K., & Holahan, W. (1994). Interpersonal perception in group therapy: A social relations analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62, 776–782.
Marcus, D. K., & Lehman, S. J. (2002). Are there sex differences in interpersonal perception at zero acquaintance? A social relations analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 36, 190–207.
Marcus, D. K., & Norris, A. L. (2014). A new measure of attitudes toward sexually predatory tactics and its relation to the triarchic model of psychopathy. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28, 247–261.
Marcus, D. K., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2015). A big tent of dark personality traits. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9, 434–446.
Marcus, D. K., Lyons, P. M., & Guyton, M. R. (2000). Studying perceptions of juror influence in vivo: A social relations analysis. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 173–186.
Marcus, D. K., Hamlin, R., & Lyons, P. M. (2001). Negative affect and interpersonal rejection among prison inmates in a therapeutic community: A social relations analysis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 544–552.
Marcus, D. K., Fulton, J. J., & Edens, J. F. (2013). The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: Evidence from the Psychopathic Personality Inventory. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 4, 67–76.
Marcus, D. K., Zeigler-Hill, V., Mercer, S., & Norris, A. L. (2014). The psychology of spite and the measurement of spitefulness. Psychological Assessment, 26, 563–574.
Norris, A. L., Marcus, D. K., & Green, B. A. (2015). Homosexuality as a discrete class. Psychological Science, 26, 1843–1853.
Ruscio, J., Walters, G. D., Marcus, D. K., & Kaczetow, W. (2010). Comparing the relative fit of categorical and dimensional latent variable models using consistency tests. Psychological Assessment, 22, 5–21.
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Marcus, D. (2017). Marcus, David K.. 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_2220-1
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