Timothy A Allen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Email allenta2@upmc.edu
Education & Training
PhD
Child Clinical Psychology, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University
Translational Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Clinical Psychology, Pennsylvania State University
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
Research Interests
Dimensional psychopathology; Anxiety and irritability; Modeling aversive learning
Selected Research Publications & Products- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Clinical Interests
Personality pathology; Personality assessment; Transdiagnostic intervention
Selected Clinical Publications & Products- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Shiner RL & Allen TA. (2013). Assessing personality disorders in adolescents: Seven guiding principles. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 20, 361-377.
Education Interests
Research mentorship
Selected Education Publications & Products- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
