Lee Anna Clark is an American psychologist and William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Professor of Psychology in the Department of

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at the

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in Notre Dame,

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, United States. She used to be a

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and collegiate fellow at the University of Iowa. She was, as of 2007, the director of clinical training in the Clinical Science Program. Prior to her appointment at the

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, she was a professor of psychology at

Southern Methodist University , mottoeng = "The truth will make you free" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = SACS , academic_affiliations = , religious_affiliation = United Methodist Church , president = R. Gerald Turner , ...

in Dallas, Texas. Her research focuses on

personality Personality is the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that are formed from biological and environmental factors, and which change over time. While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality, m ...

and

temperament In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes. Some researchers point to association of temperam ...

, clinical and personality assessment,

psychometrics Psychometrics is a field of study within psychology concerned with the theory and technique of measurement. Psychometrics generally refers to specialized fields within psychology and education devoted to testing, measurement, assessment, and ...

, mood, anxiety, and depression.

Biography

Clark received her

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four year ...

degree in psycholinguistics from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

in 1972, an MA in Asian studies from

with a specialization in Japan in 1977, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

in 1982. She has served as president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) as well as an executive board member of the Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP) and the

Association for Research in Personality The Association for Research in Personality (abbreviated ARP) is an American learned society dedicated to advancing research into personality. Its mission statement does not mention specific disciplines such as social psychology or policy research, ...

. She is a member of the Personality and Personality Disorders Workgroup, the Disabilities and Impairments Assessment Study Group, and the Measurement Instruments Study Group for DSM-V. She is the author of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP), a personality questionnaire, recognized in

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(not to be confused with SNAP-IV, Swanson, Nolan and Pelham Rating Scale, 4th edition). She has published over 100 articles, books, and chapters, and is one of ISI's “HighlyCited” researchers. Clark has served as an editorial board member for such journals as the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality Disorders, Journal of Research in Personality, and Journal of Personality Assessment. To date, Clark's work has been cited over 100,000 times.

Selected papers

Most cited papers

#Watson D, Clark LA, Tellegen A." Development And Validation Of Brief Measures Of Positive And Negative Affect - The Panas Scales" . ''Journal of Personality and Social Psychology'' 54 (6): 1063-1070 Jun 1988 #Watson D, Clark LA. "Negative Affectivity - The Disposition To Experience Aversive Emotional States". ''Psychological Bulletin'' 96 (3): 465-490 1984 #Clark LA, Watson D. "Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development". "Psychological Assessment" 7 (3): 309-319 #Clark LA, Watson D. "Tripartite Model Of Anxiety And Depression - Psychometric Evidence And Taxonomic Implications ".'' Journal of Abnormal Psychology'' 100 (3): 316-336 Aug 1991 #Clark LA, Watson D, Mineka S. "Temperament, Personality, And The Mood And Anxiety Disorders".'' Journal of Abnormal Psychology'' 103 (1): 103-116 Feb 1994 #Watson D, Clark LA, Carey G. "Positive And Negative Affectivity And Their Relation To Anxiety And Depressive-Disorders".'' Journal of Abnormal Psychology'' 97 (3): 346-353 Aug 1988

References

External links

Lee Anna Clark's faculty profile at the University of Notre Dame
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