Timothy A Allen, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

  • Mood Disorders
  • Anxiety, OCD & Trauma Disorders
  • AI & Computational Methods
  • Basic & Translational Neuroscience
Timothy A Allen, PhD
Expertise & Interests Selected Publications Education & Credentials Related News

Expertise & Interests

Research Interests

Dimensional psychopathology; Anxiety and irritability; Modeling aversive learning

Clinical Interests

Personality pathology; Personality assessment; Transdiagnostic intervention

Education Interests

Research mentorship

Selected Publications

  1. Forbes MK, Ringwald WR, Allen T, Cicero DC, Clark LA, DeYoung CG, Eaton N, Kotov R, Krueger RF, Latzman RD, Martin EA, Naragon-Gainey K, Ruggero CJ, Waldman ID, Brandes C, Fried EI, Goghari VM, Hankin B, Sperry S, Stanton K, Aftab A, Lynam D, Roche M, Wright AGC. Principles and procedures for revising the hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2024 Jan;133(1):4-19. doi: 10.1037/abn0000886. PMID: 38147052.
  2. Allen TA, Hallquist MN & Dombrovski AY. (2024). Callousness, exploitativeness, and tracking of cooperation incentives in the human default network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(29), e2307221121.
  3. Allen TA, Hallquist MN, Wright AG & Dombrovski AY. (2022). Negative affectivity and disinhibition as moderators of an interpersonal pathway to suicidal behavior in borderline personality disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(5), 856-868.
  4. Hall NT, Schreiber AM, Allen TA & Hallquist MN. (2021). Disentangling cognitive processes in externalizing psychopathology using drift diffusion modeling: Antagonism, but not disinhibition, is associated with poor cognitive control. Journal of Personality, 89(5), 970-985.
  5. Allen TA, Hall NT, Schreiber AM & Hallquist MN. (2021). Explanatory personality science in the neuroimaging era: The map is not the territory. Current Opinions in Behavioral Science, 43, 236-241.
  6. Allen TA, Schreiber AM, Hall NT & Hallquist MN. (2020). From description to explanation: Integrating across multiple levels of analysis to inform neuroscientific accounts of dimensional personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 34, 650-676.
  7. Allen TA & Hallquist MN. (2020). Disinhibition and detachment in adolescence: A developmental cognitive neuroscience perspective on the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders. Psychopathology, 53, 205-212.
  8. Shiner RL & Allen TA. (2018). Developmental psychopathology of personality disorders. In J. Livesley & R. Larstone (Eds.) Handbook of personality disorders (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.
  9. Shiner RL & Allen TA. (2013). Assessing personality disorders in adolescents: Seven guiding principles. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 20, 361-377.
  10. Hallquist MN, Allen TA, Okan A, Paolizzi S & Dombrovski AY. (in press). Computational psychiatry and transdiagnostic models of mental disorders: Confluences and conflicts. In R. F. Krueger & C. Conway (Eds.), Handbook of Dimensional Models of Psychopathology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  11. DeYoung CG, Grazioplene RG& Allen TA. (2021). The neurobiology of personality. In OP John & RW Robins (Eds.) Handbook of personality: Theory and research (4th Edition). New York: Guilford Press.
  12. DeYoung CG & Allen TA. (2019). Personality neuroscience: A developmental perspective. In McAdams, D. P., Shiner, R. L., & Tackett, J. L. (Eds.) Handbook of personality development. New York: Guilford Press.
  13. Allen TA & DeYoung CG. (2017). Personality neuroscience and the five factor model. In Widiger, T. (Ed.) Oxford handbook of the five factor model. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Education & Credentials

Education & Training

Education
PhD, Child Clinical Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Internship
Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University
Postdoctoral
Translational Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Postdoctoral
Clinical Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
Postdoctoral
Clinical Psychology, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Society for Research in Psychopathology
  • Member, Association for Research in Personality
  • Member, Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Consortium

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