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Ph.D University of Virginia, 2006
Research interests are personality, personality disorders, and psychopathology. Particularly interested in the transactions betweenrelationships (e.g., marital functioning) and individual differences in functioning.
Utilizes behavior genetic modeling with twin samples to examine gene-environment interplay in the etiology of personality and psychopathology. Also examines interpersonal perception of personality, and how differences in self vs. other report are related to important outcomes.
Dr. South is NOT accepting graduate applicants for 2012-2013.
Recent Publications:
South, S.C., & DeYoung, N. (in press). Behavior genetics of personality disorders: Informing classification and conceptualization in DSM-5. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
South, S.C., Krueger, R.F., & Iacono, W.G. (in press). Understanding general and specific connections between psychopathology and marital distress: A model based approach. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Eaton, N.R., Krueger, R.F., South, S.C., Simms, L.J., & Clark, L.A. (2011). Contrasting prototypes and dimensions in the classification of personality pathology: Evidence that dimensions, but not prototypes, are robust. Psychological Medicine, 41, 1151-1163.
South, S.C., Oltmanns, T.F., Johnson, J., & Turkheimer, E. (2011). Level of agreement between self and spouse in the assessment of personality pathology. Assessment, 18, 217-226.
South, S.C. & Krueger, R.F. (2011). Genetic and environmental influences on internalizing psychopathology vary as a function of economic status. Psychological Medicine, 41, 107-118.
Forbush, K.T., South S.C., Krueger, R.F., Iacono, W.G., Clark, L.A., Keel, P.K., Legrand, L.N., & Watson, D. (2010). Locating eating pathology within an empirical diagnostic taxonomy: Evidence from a community-based sample. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, 282-292.
South, S.C., Doss, B., & Christensen, A. (2010). Through the eyes of the beholder: The mediating role of relationship acceptance in the impact of partner behavior. Family Relations, 59, 611-622.
Eaton, N.R., South, S.C., & Krueger, R.F. (2009). The Cognitive-Affective Processing System (CAPS) approach to personality and the concept of personality disorder: Integrating clinical and social-cognitive research. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 208-217.
Hicks, B.M., South, S.C., DiRago, A.C., Iacono, W.G., & McGue, M. (2009). Environmental adversity increases genetic risk for externalizing disorders. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66, 640-648.
Krueger, R.F., & South, S.C. (2009). Externalizing disorders: Cluster 5 of the proposed meta-structure for DSM-V and ICD-11. Psychological Medicine, 39, 2061-2070.
South, S.C., Krueger, R.F., & Iacono, W.G. (2009). Factor structure of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale: Confirmatory analyses and invariance across gender. Psychological Assessment, 21, 622-628.
Warren, J. I., & South, S. C. (2009). A symptom level examination of the relationship between Cluster B personality disorders and patterns of criminality and violence in women. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 32, 10-17. |
