Aaron L Pincus
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3457083 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aaron L Pincus |
| NOMBRES | Aaron L |
| APELLIDO | Pincus |
| FIRMA | PINCUS A L |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6308-0250 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Tracing the Trajectory of Charles Manson’s Interpersonal Dynamics
Charles Manson, notorious for his involvement in the gruesome Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969, remains a polarizing figure. His case has divided not only the public but also clinicians and researchers, resulting in a wide array of diagnoses from personality disorders to schizophrenia. To shed light on this longstanding debate, this study employs a novel approach to systematically assess moment-to-moment dyadic interpersonal exchanges between Manson…
Examining the Construct Validity of the Super Brief-Pathological Narcissism Inventory to Assess Narcissistic States in Daily Life
Although ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is becoming increasingly popular, the approach has historically relied on unvalidated single-item assessments of constructs. The Super Brief-Pathological Narcissism Inventory (SB-PNI) assesses narcissistic grandiosity and vulnerability using 12 items and is well-suited to address this limitation in the narcissism literature. However, its validity in an EMA context has not been examined. To this end, …
Gender differences and age trends in pathological narcissism on a sample of Iranian students
The prevalence of narcissistic personality disorder is higher in men than women, and men tend to score higher than women on many self-report measures of narcissism. However, these findings may be contingent on the conceptualization of narcissism and measures used. Further, there is evidence indicating that women can also exhibit higher levels of narcissism. Gender differences in narcissism present a complex and unclear picture. This study, utiliz…
Development and Validation of a Standardized Training Protocol for Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics (Caid)
The current study examines a standardized training protocol for Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics (CAID) in a sample of undergraduates. Currently, laboratories utilize CAID without a standardized training protocol or benchmarks for accuracy, reducing the ease of implementing this paradigm in new labs and reducing the reliability of data across different laboratories. This study tested a short training protocol by randomly assigning …
Distinguishing Interpersonal Problems, Sensitivities, Values, and Efficacies
Covariation among the octant scales of Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC) measures can be accounted for by a general elevation factor and two stylistic factors that can be rotated to reflect dominance and warmth. IPC measures are available to assess different interpersonal surfaces, or different kinds of interpersonal functioning. Administration of multiple IPC measures enables multisurface interpersonal assessment, in which both convergences and div…
A multi-method study of interpersonal complementarity and mentalization
Age and gender differences in narcissism
Version IV, Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire-Short Form, Single-Item Narcissism Scale, and brief version of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory). The findings of Study 1 (N = 5,736) revealed heterogeneity in how strongly the measures are correlated. Some instruments loaded clearly on one of the three factors proposed by previous research (i.e., Neuroticism, Extraversion, Antagonism), while others cross-loaded across factors and…
Comparing English-Language and Chinese-Language Assessment of DSM-5 Personality Disorders and Interpersonal Problems in Chinese Bilingual Speakers
A review of the literature on Chinese translations of Western self-report personality disorder assessment measures indicates the need to empirically evaluate the validity of assessing Western personality disorder constructs in Chinese language and culture. The current study presents a novel approach to examining this critical question in cross-cultural clinical assessment science and practice. One hundred and ninety-nine (199) Mandarin Chinese an…
Five‐factor model trait profiles of narcissistic grandiosity and narcissistic vulnerability in Iranian university students
This study examined the relationship between pathological narcissism, narcissistic grandiosity, narcissistic vulnerability and the five‐factor model of personality. Participants consisted of 290 undergraduate students from four universities in three different cities in Iran, recruited by available sampling, Instruments, including, Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) and the NEO Five‐Factor Inventory (NEO‐FFI) were also completed for the parti…
My problem or yours? Interpersonal problems and marital quality
OBJECTIVE: Research has consistently illustrated the impact of personality on marital quality. Given the inherent dyadic nature of relationships, recent investigations have integrated spouse-rated personality to account for both spouses' perspectives. Grounded in Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, we viewed personality through an interpersonal lens and conceptualized maladaptive interpersonal functioning as interpersonal problems. The…
It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders
Personality disorders (PDs) are among the most common and severe classes of psychopathology. From a clinical perspective, it is challenging to help individuals with personality disorders because treatment ruptures, discontinuation, reversals, and failures are relatively common. An additional clinical challenge is that the model used to diagnose personality disorders is demonstrably incorrect. Recent efforts to improve diagnosis of personality dis…
Linking dimensions and dynamics in psychopathology research
Age differences in emotion regulation strategy use, variability, and flexibility
Life span developmental theories suggest that as individuals age, they accumulate knowledge about how to deploy emotion regulation (ER) strategies effectively and learn how to match their ER strategy use with changes in situational demands. Using an event-contingent experience sampling design wherein 150 adults Age 18 to 89 years reported on 64,213 social interactions (M = 427.41, SD = 145.66) during 9 weeks of daily life, this study examines (a)…
Interpersonal problems and acculturative stress over time among Chinese international students from mainland China and Taiwan
The Role of General and Daily Control Beliefs for Affective Stressor-Reactivity Across Adulthood and Old Age
Mixed evidence of age differences across general and daily control beliefs highlights how within-person processes may differentially contribute to well-being as individuals accommodate age-related strengths and vulnerabilities
Modeling Intraindividual Dynamics Using Stochastic Differential Equations
The results highlight the utility of SDE models for studying affect dynamics and informing theoretical predictions about how intraindividual dynamics change over the life course
Behavioral landscapes and earth mover’s distance
How the social ecology and social situation shape individuals’ affect valence and arousal
Many theories highlight the role social contexts play in shaping affective experience. However, little is known about how individuals' social environments influence core affect on short time-scales (e.g., hours). Using experience sampling data from the iSAHIB, wherein 150 adults aged 18 to 89 years reported on 64,213 social interactions (average 6.92 per day, SD = 2.85) across 9 weeks of daily life, we examined how 4 features of individuals' soci…
The structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles
The aim of this study was to evaluate the structure of pathological narcissism and its relationships with adult attachment styles in 394 Italian nonclinical volunteers and in 103 consecutively admitted Italian outpatients. All participants were administered the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) and the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ). Confirmatory factor analyses replicated the 2-factor model of the PNI found in English-speaking sample…
Daily physical activity and life satisfaction across adulthood
Physical activity is considered a valuable tool for enhancing life satisfaction. However, the processes linking these constructs likely differ across the adult life span. In older adults the association between physical activity and life satisfaction appears to involve usual levels of physical activity (i.e., a between-person association driven by differences between more and less active people). In younger adults the association has consistently…
Intrapersonal Resilience Moderates the Association Between Exposure-Severity and PTSD Symptoms Among Civilians Exposed to the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict
Among civilians exposed to war trauma, the development of acute anxiety symptoms has been found to be positively associated with the severity of the traumatic exposure but negatively associated with intrapersonal resilience (optimism, hope, and self-esteem). No study to date has examined whether intrapersonal resilience plays a moderating role in the development of acute anxiety among individuals as they are exposed to trauma. This “natural labor…
Bursts of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Daily Lives of Emerging Adults
Self-conscious emotions play a role in regulating daily achievement strivings, social behavior, and health, but little is known about the processes underlying their daily manifestation. Emerging adults (n = 182) completed daily diaries for eight days and multilevel models were estimated to evaluate whether, how much, and why their emotions varied from day-to-day. Within-person variation in authentic pride was normally-distributed across people an…
Interpersonal dependency and emotion in every day life
Within-person covariation of agentic and communal perceptions
Interpersonal Theory of Personality
The contemporary interpersonal theory of personality is a robust, interdisciplinary, and integrative nomological framework that continues to evolve both conceptually and methodologically, incorporating advances that keep pace with psychological science. In this chapter, we present the fundamental assumptions, descriptive meta-structure, and developmental, motivational, and regulatory processes of the contemporary integrative interpersonal theory …
Age differences in emotion regulation strategy use, variability, and flexibility
Life span developmental theories suggest that as individuals age, they accumulate knowledge about how to deploy emotion regulation (ER) strategies effectively and learn how to match their ER strategy use with changes in situational demands. Using an event-contingent experience sampling design wherein 150 adults Age 18 to 89 years reported on 64,213 social interactions (M = 427.41, SD = 145.66) during 9 weeks of daily life, this study examines (a)…
Daily physical activity and life satisfaction across adulthood
Physical activity is considered a valuable tool for enhancing life satisfaction. However, the processes linking these constructs likely differ across the adult life span. In older adults the association between physical activity and life satisfaction appears to involve usual levels of physical activity (i.e., a between-person association driven by differences between more and less active people). In younger adults the association has consistently…
Age and gender differences in narcissism
Version IV, Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Questionnaire-Short Form, Single-Item Narcissism Scale, and brief version of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory). The findings of Study 1 (N = 5,736) revealed heterogeneity in how strongly the measures are correlated. Some instruments loaded clearly on one of the three factors proposed by previous research (i.e., Neuroticism, Extraversion, Antagonism), while others cross-loaded across factors and…
The Role of General and Daily Control Beliefs for Affective Stressor-Reactivity Across Adulthood and Old Age
Mixed evidence of age differences across general and daily control beliefs highlights how within-person processes may differentially contribute to well-being as individuals accommodate age-related strengths and vulnerabilities
Within-person covariation of agentic and communal perceptions
Predicting unpredictability
Maladjusted individuals have been theorized to exhibit problematic intraindividual variability of social behavior across situations. This variability is either excessively high (i.e., unpredictable) or low (i.e., rigid), or the behavior is inappropriately matched to the interpersonal context (noncomplementary). However, research has not tested systematically whether interpersonal distress and purported measures of rigidity actually predict these …
It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders
Personality disorders (PDs) are among the most common and severe classes of psychopathology. From a clinical perspective, it is challenging to help individuals with personality disorders because treatment ruptures, discontinuation, reversals, and failures are relatively common. An additional clinical challenge is that the model used to diagnose personality disorders is demonstrably incorrect. Recent efforts to improve diagnosis of personality dis…
Structural analysis of social behavior (Sasb)
The circumplexity of Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) and the interpersonal circle (IPC) were evaluated in a large adult sample. SASB exhibits elliptical structure, whereas multiple measures of the IPC exhibit circumplex structure. SASB results were replicated in a sample of psychiatric inpatients. Structural relations between the IPC and SASB indicate one common dimension (affiliation). Structural relations between SASB and the five…
The three faces of interpersonal dependency
Using the interpersonal circumplex and the 5-factor model of personality as a structural framework, the authors identified 3 aspects of interpersonal dependency in structural analyses of the universe of content defined by the combined item pool of widely used self-report dependency measures: love dependency, exploitable dependency, and submissive dependency. Markers of these aspects of interpersonal dependency were reconstituted, and their relati…
Modeling Intraindividual Dynamics Using Stochastic Differential Equations
The results highlight the utility of SDE models for studying affect dynamics and informing theoretical predictions about how intraindividual dynamics change over the life course
Behavioral landscapes and earth mover’s distance
Linking dimensions and dynamics in psychopathology research
Interpersonal dependency and emotion in every day life
The interpersonal nexus of persons, situations, and psychopathology
Development of personality and the remission and onset of personality pathology
The current study used the Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders data set (Lenzenweger, 1999) to examine the development of personality traits in the context of the remission and onset of personality disorder (PD) symptoms. Despite high levels of stability, past research on the development of basic personality traits has also found a mean trend toward increased maturity and that individuals vary in their trajectories of trait development. R…
The three faces of interpersonal dependency
Using the interpersonal circumplex and the 5-factor model of personality as a structural framework, the authors identified 3 aspects of interpersonal dependency in structural analyses of the universe of content defined by the combined item pool of widely used self-report dependency measures: love dependency, exploitable dependency, and submissive dependency. Markers of these aspects of interpersonal dependency were reconstituted, and their relati…
Structural analysis of social behavior (Sasb)
The circumplexity of Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) and the interpersonal circle (IPC) were evaluated in a large adult sample. SASB exhibits elliptical structure, whereas multiple measures of the IPC exhibit circumplex structure. SASB results were replicated in a sample of psychiatric inpatients. Structural relations between the IPC and SASB indicate one common dimension (affiliation). Structural relations between SASB and the five…
Interpersonal Variability in Dependent Personality
The interpersonal circumplex (IPC) was recommended as a personality trait dimensional model with good potential to identify the phenomenological scope of personality disorders whose core dysfunction involves maladaptive expression of interpersonal traits. The IPC was then applied to the reconceptualization of dependent personality and dependent personality disorder. In Study 1, Pincus and Gurtman’s (1995) three interpersonal vectors of dependency…
The Meaning of Autonomy
Review of existing psychological literature suggests that conceptions of autonomy as an individual difference have taken several forms. Structural analyses of 15 self‐report autonomy scales utilizing the interpersonal circumplex (IPC) and the Five‐Factor Model (FFM) of personality as structural referents confirmed the presence of diverse conceptualizations of this construct. Two hundred ninety undergraduate students completed 15 autonomy scales, …
Interpersonal Analysis of Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism
This article examines the validity of grandiose and vulnerable subtypes of narcissistic character styles through an analysis of personality disorder criteria, interpersonal problems, and adult attachment styles in a nonclinical population. The grandiose personalities in this sample were rated high in the dramatic traits associated with narcissistic, antisocial, and histrionic personality disorders based on a diagnostic interview, and they reporte…
Interpersonal Perceptions of the Five-Factor Model of Personality
Research investigating the structural convergence of the Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC; Wiggins, 1979, 1995) with the Five Factor Model (FFM; Costa & McCrae, 1992) of personality has predominantly focused on the traits of Agreeableness and Extraversion. The characteristics of the other three FFM traits: Neuroticism, Openness, and Conscientiousness are often regarded as largely intrapsychic. This study assessed interpersonal perceptions of the FFM…
Narcissism at the crossroads
Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory.
The construct of narcissism is inconsistently defined across clinical theory, social-personality psychology, and psychiatric diagnosis. Two problems were identified that impede integration of research and clinical findings regarding narcissistic personality pathology: (a) ambiguity regarding the assessment of pathological narcissism vs. normal narcissism and (b) insufficient scope of existing narcissism measures. Four studies are presented docume…
The Expression of Achievement Motives in Interpersonal Problems
Achievement motivation influences self‐regulatory strategies, affective processes, and achievement outcomes, but little is known about how individual differences in achievement motivation influence interpersonal behavior. Different forms of achievement motivation are likely to influence interpersonal behavior because achievement motives are grounded in social emotions. Two studies were conducted to examine relations between achievement motives an…
The Pathoplastic Relationship Between Interpersonal Problems and Fear of Failure
This study advances the understanding of fear of failure (FF), a dispositional avoidance‐oriented achievement motive, by employing interpersonal classification techniques to groups of individuals who fear failure in order to examine the pathoplastic relations between FF and interpersonal problems. Shame‐based FF is thought to be related to the self‐regulation strategies of appeasement and aggression, and these strategies are hypothesized to be as…
The interpersonal nexus of persons, situations, and psychopathology
Predicting unpredictability
Maladjusted individuals have been theorized to exhibit problematic intraindividual variability of social behavior across situations. This variability is either excessively high (i.e., unpredictable) or low (i.e., rigid), or the behavior is inappropriately matched to the interpersonal context (noncomplementary). However, research has not tested systematically whether interpersonal distress and purported measures of rigidity actually predict these …
Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
We review the literature on pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and describe a significant criterion problem related to four inconsistencies in phenotypic descriptions and taxonomic models across clinical theory, research, and practice; psychiatric diagnosis; and social/personality psychology. This impedes scientific synthesis, weakens narcissism's nomological net, and contributes to a discrepancy between low preva…
The circumplex structure of interpersonal sensitivities
Previous research on aversive interpersonal behavior has provided limited links between interpersonal sensitivities and comprehensive models of personality and social behavior. Study 1 (N=1,336) of this article demonstrated that interpersonal sensitivities can be mapped onto the interpersonal circumplex and that people generally find others' behavior that is least similar to their own generally most aversive. In Study 2 (N=299), a broader array o…
Interpersonal Impact Messages Associated with Different Forms of Achievement Motivation
Two studies evaluated relations between different forms of achievement motivation and transactional interpersonal impact messages during a dyadic puzzle-solving task. In Study 1,400 college students received no formal competence feedback during the task. In Study 2, competence feedback was manipulated for 600 college students and used to create high-, low-, and mixed-status dyads. Expectancies of success had robust actor and partner effects on su…
The pantheoretical nature of mental representations and their ability to predict interpersonal adjustment in a nonclinical sample
The Circumplex Structure of Interpersonal Sensitivities
Previous research on aversive interpersonal behavior has provided limited links between interpersonal sensitivities and comprehensive models of personality and social behavior. Study 1 (N = 1,336) of this article demonstrated that interpersonal sensitivities can be mapped onto the interpersonal circumplex and that people generally find others' behavior that is least similar to their own generally most aversive. In Study 2 (N = 299), a broader arr…
Interpersonal Development, Stability, and Change in Early Adulthood
Interpersonal Impact Messages Associated With Different Forms of Achievement Motivation
Two studies evaluated relations between different forms of achievement motivation and transactional interpersonal impact messages during a dyadic puzzle-solving task. In Study 1,400 college students received no formal competence feedback during the task. In Study 2, competence feedback was manipulated for 600 college students and used to create high-, low-, and mixed-status dyads. Expectancies of success had robust actor and partner effects on su…
Development of personality and the remission and onset of personality pathology
The current study used the Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders data set (Lenzenweger, 1999) to examine the development of personality traits in the context of the remission and onset of personality disorder (PD) symptoms. Despite high levels of stability, past research on the development of basic personality traits has also found a mean trend toward increased maturity and that individuals vary in their trajectories of trait development. R…
Interpersonal Theory of Personality
The contemporary interpersonal theory of personality is a robust, interdisciplinary, and integrative nomological framework that continues to evolve both conceptually and methodologically, incorporating advances that keep pace with psychological science. In this chapter, we present the fundamental assumptions, descriptive meta-structure, and developmental, motivational, and regulatory processes of the contemporary integrative interpersonal theory …
Interpersonal Development, Stability, and Change in Early Adulthood
The goal of this research was to explore the development of the interpersonal system mapped by the interpersonal circumplex in early adulthood (ages 18–22). This study uses the Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders sample ( N = 250; 53% female). Participants completed the Revised Interpersonal Adjective Scales (Wiggins, Trapnell, & Phillips, 1988) in their freshman, sophomore, and senior years of college. Estimates of structural, rank‐order…
Within-person covariation of agentic and communal perceptions
Intrapersonal Resilience Moderates the Association Between Exposure-Severity and PTSD Symptoms Among Civilians Exposed to the 2014 Israel–Gaza Conflict
Among civilians exposed to war trauma, the development of acute anxiety symptoms has been found to be positively associated with the severity of the traumatic exposure but negatively associated with intrapersonal resilience (optimism, hope, and self-esteem). No study to date has examined whether intrapersonal resilience plays a moderating role in the development of acute anxiety among individuals as they are exposed to trauma. This “natural labor…
Bursts of Self-Conscious Emotions in the Daily Lives of Emerging Adults
Self-conscious emotions play a role in regulating daily achievement strivings, social behavior, and health, but little is known about the processes underlying their daily manifestation. Emerging adults (n = 182) completed daily diaries for eight days and multilevel models were estimated to evaluate whether, how much, and why their emotions varied from day-to-day. Within-person variation in authentic pride was normally-distributed across people an…
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