Faculty

Timothy A Allen, PhD

Timothy A Allen, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Email

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
  1. Allen TA, Schreiber AM, Hall NT, Hallquist MN. (In press) From description to explanation: Integrating across multiple levels of analysis to inform neuroscientific accounts of dimensional personality pathology. J Pers Disord.
  2. Allen TA, Dombrovski AY, Soloff PH, Hallquist MN. (2020) Borderline personality disorder: Stress reactivity or stress generation? A prospective dimensional study. Psychol Med, 38(9), 12311239.
  3. Allen TA, DeYoung CG, Bagby RM, Pollock BG. (2020) A hierarchical integration of normal and abnormal personality dimensions: Structure and predictive validity in a heterogeneous sample of psychiatric outpatients. Assessment. Jun;27(4):643-56.
  4. Allen TA, Lam RW, Milev R, Rizvi SJ, Frey BN, MacQueen GM, Mller DJ, Uher R, Kennedy SH, Quilty LC. (2019) Early change in reward and punishment sensitivity as a predictor of response to antidepressant treatment for major depressive disorder: A CAN-BIND-1 report. Psychol Med. Jul;49(10):1629-1638. PubMed PMID: 30220263.
  5. Allen TA, Rueter AR, Abram SV, Brown JS, DeYoung CG. (2017) Personality and neural correlates of mentalizing ability. Eur J Pers. Nov-Dec;31(6):599-613. PubMed PMID: 29610548.

Clinical Interests

Personality pathology; Personality assessment; Transdiagnostic intervention

Education Interests

Research mentorship

New Research Captures How Learning to Cooperate Relates to “Dark” Personality Traits

Dr. Timothy Allen

A new study published in PNAS by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers describes how two personality traits, callousness and exploitativeness, are related to the way humans learn to cooperate in interpersonal relationships, and how this learning unfolds in the brain. The study represents an important step toward understanding whether differences in the way we learn from others impact the types of...

Pitt Psychiatry’s 2024 Research Day, Part I: A Research and Networking Bonanza

Research Day 2024

The 22nd annual Department of Psychiatry Research Day, held on June 13, 2024, was the most highly attended Research Day ever, with 544 faculty members, trainees, and staff gathering at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Lunchtime Roundtables More than 260 individuals participated in or facilitated one of 19 roundtable discussion groups focused on topics including...

New Research in Psychological Medicine on Borderline Personality Disorder and Stress

Dr. Tim Allen

Individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder often report leading stressful and tumultuous lives. Research suggests that they are likely to experience more prospective stressors (known as stress generation), and more emotional reactivity following those stressors (known as stress reactivity) than individuals without borderline personality disorder, including those diagnosed with other psychiatric...

A Continued Bright Future for Department Research: Recently Funded K Awards for Early-Career Pitt Psychiatry Investigators 

K Awardees

This fall, early-career investigators in our Department have initiated several innovative National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded K-series career development research projects. We are proud to count these young scientists among the newest members of our faculty and anticipate that their research on psychiatric and substance use disorders will contribute much to the bright future of research in our field. Below...

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes Timothy Allen, PhD, to the Faculty

Dr. Timothy Allen

We are pleased to announce that Timothy Allen, PhD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Allen received his PhD in child clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development. He completed his clinical psychology internship at Northwestern University, followed by postdoctoral training at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto) and Penn State...