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

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

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 Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a Private university, private research university in Dallas, Texas, United States, with a satellite campus in Taos County, New Mexico. SMU was founded on April 17, 1911, by the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

in Dallas, Texas. Her research focuses on

personality Personality is any person's collection of interrelated behavioral, cognitive, and emotional patterns that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life. These interrelated patterns are relatively stable, but can change over long time per ...

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 tempera ...

, clinical and personality assessment,

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

, mood, anxiety, and depression.

Biography

Clark received her

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

degree in

psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind ...

from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

in 1972, an MA in

Asian studies Asian studies is the term used usually in North America and Australia for what in Europe is known as Oriental studies. The field is concerned with the Asian people, their cultures, languages, history and politics. Within the Asian sphere, Asian ...

from

with a specialization in Japan in 1977, and a Ph.D. in

clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well ...

from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

in 1982. She has served as president of both the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) and the Society for Research in Psychopathology (SRP). In addition, Clark served on the executive board of the Association for Research in Personality. She served as a member of the Personality and Personality Disorders Workgroup, the Disabilities and Impairments Assessment Study Group, and the Measurement Instruments Study Group for

DSM-5 The ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition'' (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the '' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'', the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiat ...

. She has, due to being part of the work group, been significantly involved in the development of the DSM's new dimensional model of personality disorders, namely, the ''

Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders The Alternative DSM-5 Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD), introduced in Section III of the ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition'' (DSM-5), provides an alternative conceptual framework for the classification ...

''. Later, she has also been involved in the development of the

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classification of

personality disorders Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental health conditions characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the culture. T ...

. She is the author of the Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP), a personality questionnaire, recognized in

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

(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 Personality Disorders'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed psychology journal covering the study of personality disorders. It was established in 1986 and is published by Guilford Press on behalf of the International Society for the Study o ...

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, and

Journal of Personality Assessment The ''Journal of Personality Assessment'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on measurement issues in the fields of personality and clinical psychology that was established in 1936. It is published by Taylor and Franci ...

. Clark has received numerous professional awards. She received the Zubin Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Understanding of Psychopathology from SRP in 2017, and the John Neale Sustained Mentorship Award from SRP in 2020. In 2017, she received the Jack Block Award for Distinguished Research in Personality from the

Society for Personality and Social Psychology A society () is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. So ...

(SPSP). In 2019, she received the John Gunderson Senior Researcher Award from the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorder. In 2023, Clark received the Senior Investigator Award from the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorder. To date, Clark's work has been cited over 139,000 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 #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 #Clark LA, Watson D, Mineka S. "Temperament, Personality, And The Mood And Anxiety Disorders".'' Journal of Abnormal Psychology'' 103 (1): 103-116 Feb 1994 #Clark LA. "Assessment and diagnosis of personality disorder: Perennial issues and an emerging reconceptualization".'' Annual Review of Psychology'' 58: 227-257 2007

References

External links

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