My research interests lie predominantly in the areas of personality, psychopathology, assessment of individual differences, and in the interface among these areas. In the personality domain, I am broadly interested in the expressions and consequences of personality in people's lives (e.g., performance, subjective well-being, health outcomes).

My general interest in psychopathology entails elucidating etiologic processes implicated in the development of certain forms of psychopathology (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance abuse), especially from a personality perspective. My current research focus constitutes exploring relations between dispositional trait structure (e.g., the Big Five) and social-cognitive processes (e.g., depressogenic inferential style, ruminative style, anxiety sensitivity, poor self-control/regulation) and their combined effects on psychopathology.