Research areas

• – Personality psychology
• – Interpersonal theory

Methodological and/or psychotherapeutic expertise

• – Interpersonal theory
• – Personality
• – Psychopathology

Short biography

PhD from Texas A&M University, Clinical Internship at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital; previous professorships at Michigan State University and University of California, Davis, currently Professor of Psychology at University of Zurich. Current Associate Editor at Journal of Personality Assessment and Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Editor in Chief at Psychology of Human Animal Intergroup Relations.

Relevant publications

• Hopwood, C. J., Wright, A. G., Ansell, E. B., & Pincus, A. L. (2013). The interpersonal core of personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 27(3), 270.
• Hopwood, C. J. (2018). Interpersonal dynamics in personality and personality disorders. European Journal of Personality, 32, 499-524.
• Hopwood, C. J., Pincus, A. L., & Wright, A. G. (2021). Six assumptions of contemporary integrative interpersonal theory of personality and psychopathology. Current Opinion in Psychology, 41, 65-70.
• Wright, A. G. C., Pincus, A. L., & Hopwood, C. J. (2023). Contemporary integrative interpersonal theory: Integrating structure, dynamics, temporal scale, and levels of analysis. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 132(3), 263-276.
• Pincus, A. L. & Hopwood, C. J. (in press). The Interpersonal Situation: Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, assessment, and psychotherapy. American Psychological Association.