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    Trevor Williams, PhD

    Trevor Williams

    Psychological Sciences
    Assistant Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    203 Kent Hall Annex
    Contact Information
    Email:
    twill253@kent.edu
    Fax:
    330-672-3786
    Personal Website: Transdiagnostic Interpersonal Processes Lab (TIPL)

    Biography

    Graduate Areas:

    • Adult Psychopathology
    • Clinical - Assessment

    Does Dr. Williams plan to recruit a doctoral student for the next incoming class?

    Research Interests:

    My work focuses on the processes that underlie severe social dysfunction in psychopathology. I focus primarily on the psychosis spectrum and personality disorders, as social dysfunction is common in these populations; however, I more generally examine social dysfunction within a transdiagnostic framework. Methodologically, I aim to understand these specific processes using social cognitive tasks, computational modeling, eye-tracking, dyadic interaction data, and others.

    Lab Site:

    Transdiagnostic Interpersonal Processes Lab (TIPL)

    Courses Frequently Taught:

    • Personality Disorders

    Publications:

    • Williams, T. F., Williams, A. L., Cowan, H. R., Walker, E. F., Bearden, C. E., Keshavan, M., Cornblatt, B. A., Addington, J., Woods, S. W., Perkins, D. O., Mathalon, D. H., Cadenhead, K. S., Stone, W., & Mittal, V. A. (in press). The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology in Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: Validation and Extension. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
    • Rossi-Goldthorpe, R., Silverstein, S. M., Gold, J. M., Schiffman, J., Waltz, J. A., Williams, T. F., Powers, A. R., Woods, S. W., Zinbarg, R. E., Mittal, V. A., Ellman, L. M., Strauss, G. P., Walker, E. F., Levin, J. A., Castiello, S., Kenney, J., & Corlett, P. R. (in press). Different learning aberrations relate to delusions with different contents, Brain.
    • Williams, T. F., Conley, R. E., & Mittal, V. A. (in press). The relevance of social anxiety for understanding social functioning and facial emotion recognition in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry.
    • Cowan, H. R., Williams, T. F., Schiffman, J., Ellman, L. M., & Mittal, V. A. (2024).   Mapping psychosis risk states onto the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology using hierarchical symptom dimensions. Clinical Psychological Science, 12(1), 3-21.
    • Williams, T. F., Cohen, A. S., Sanchez, A., Joorman, J., & Mittal, V. A (2023). Attentional biases in facial emotion processing in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 273, 1825-1835.
    • Williams, T. F., Vehabovic, N., & Simms, L. J. (2023). Developing and validating a facial emotion recognition task with graded intensity. Assessment, 30(3), 761-781.
    • Williams, T. F., Ellman, L. M., Schiffman, J., & Mittal, V. A. (2022). Employing Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory to Understand Dysfunction in Those at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 3(1), sgac015.
    • Mittal, V. A., Ellman, L. M., Strauss, G. P., Walker, E. F., Corlett, P. R., Schiffman, J., Woods, S. W., Powers, A. R., Silverstein, S. M., Waltz, J. A., Zinbarg, Z., Chen, S., Williams, T., Kenney, J., & Gold, J. M. (2021). Computerized assessment of psychosis risk. Journal of Psychiatry and Brain Science, 6, Article e210011.
    • Williams, T. F., Scalco, M. D., & Simms, L. J. (2018). Examining the structural and construct validity of general and specific dimensions of personality pathology. Psychological Medicine, 48(5), 834-848.
    • Williams, T. F., & Simms, L. J. (2016). Personality Disorder Models and their Coverage of Interpersonal Problems. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7(1), 15-27.

    Education

    Ph.D., State University of New York: University at Buffalo (2020)
    Department of Psychological Sciences

    Street Address

    600 Hilltop Drive Kent, OH 44242


    Mailing Address

    800 E. Summit St.
    Kent, OH 44242

    Contact Us

    Phone: 330-672-2166 | Fax: 330-672-3786 psych@kent.edu
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