Timothy Trull
Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Byler Distinguished Professor of Psychological Sciences
106C McAlester
TrullT@missouri.edu
Faculty
Lab Information
219 Psychology Building
Research Interests

I will be reviewing applications for a graduate student for Fall 2025

My research interests are in the areas of the phenomenology of mental disorders, especially mood/anxiety, substance use (mainly alcohol and cannabis), psychometrics and clinical assessment, affective instability, emotional dysregulation, and ambulatory assessment methods. Almost all of my research at this point involves Ambulatory Assessment.

Visit my lab website for more information!

https://sites.google.com/view/personalityandemotionlab/

Selected Publications

Trull, T. J., & Durrett, C. (2005). Categorical and dimensional models of personality disorders. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 355-380.

Trull, T. J., Solhan, M. B., Tragesser, S. L., Jahng, S., Wood, P. K., Piasecki, T. M., & Watson, D. (2008). Affective instability: Measuring a core feature of borderline personality disorder with ecological momentary assessment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 647-661.

Jahng, S., Wood, P.K., & Trull, T.J. (2008). Analysis of affective instability in EMA: Indices using successive difference and group comparison via multilevel modeling. Psychological Methods, 13, 345-375.

Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Eid, M., Stabenow, S., Kleindienst N., & Trull, T. (2009). Analytic strategies for understanding affective (in)stability and other dynamic processes in psychopathology. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, 195-202.

Solhan, M. B., Trull, T. J., Jahng, S., & Wood, P.K. (2009). Clinical assessment of affective instability: Comparing EMA indices, questionnaire reports, and retrospective recall. Psychological Assessment, 21, 425-436.

Ebner-Priemer, U. W., & Trull, T. (2009). Ecological momentary assessment of mood disorders and mood dysregulation. Psychological Assessment, 21, 463-475.

Trull, T. J., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2009). Using Experience Sampling Methods/Ecological Momentary Assessment (ESM/EMA) in Clinical Assessment and Clinical Research: Introduction to the Special Section. Psychological Assessment, 21, 457-462.

Jahng, S., Trull, T. J., Wood, P. K., Tragesser, S. L., Tomko, R., Grant, J. D., Bucholz, K. K., & Sher, K. J. (2011). Distinguishing General and Specific Personality Disorder Features and Implications for Substance Dependence Comorbidity. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 656-669.

Jahng, S., Solhan, M. B., Tomko, R., Wood, P. K., Piasecki, T. A., & Trull, T. J. (2011). Affect and alcohol use: An EMA study of Outpatients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 572-584.

Carpenter, R. W., & Trull, T. J. (2013). Components of emotion dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder: A review. Current Psychiatry Reports, 15, 335.

Trull, T. J., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2013). Ambulatory assessment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 9, 151-176.

Tomko, R. L., Solhan, M. B., Carpenter, R. W., Brown, W. C., Jahng, S., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (2014). Measuring Impulsivity in Daily Life: The Momentary Impulsivity Scale (MIS). Psychological Assessment, 26, 339-349.

Trull, T. J., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2014). The role of ambulatory assessment in psychological science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 466-470.

Trull, T. J., Lane, S. P., Koval, P., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2015). Affective dynamics and psychopathology. Emotion Review, 7, 355-361.

Carpenter, R. W., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (in press). Comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and lifetime substance use disorders in a nationally representative sample. Journal of Personality Disorders.

Carpenter, R. W., & Trull, T. J. (2015). The pain paradox: Borderline personality disorder features, self-harm history, and the experience of pain. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6, 141-151.

Scheiderer, E. M., Wang, T., Tomko, R. L., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (in press). Negative Affect Instability among Individuals with Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Clinical Psychological Science.

Delforterie, M. J., Lynskey, M., Huizink, M.A.C., Creemers, H. E., Few, L. R., Glowinski, A. L., Statham. D. J., Trull, T. J., Bucholz, K. K., Madden, P. A. F., Martin, N. G., Heath, A. C., & Agrawal, A. (2015). The relationship between cannabis involvement and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 150, 98-104.

Few, L. R., Sloan, C. A., Statham, D. J., Martin, N. G., Trull, T. J., Lynskey, M. T., & Agrawal, A. (in press). Non-heterosexual identity and risk for substance use disorders: the mediating role of borderline personality disorder features. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Few, L. R., Miller , J. D., Grant, J. D., Maples, J., Trull, T. J., Nelson, E. C., Oltmanns, T. F., Martin, N. G., Lynskey, M. T., & Agrawal, A. (in press). Trait-based assessment of borderline personality disorder using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory: Phenotypic and genetic support. Psychological Assessment

Tomko, R. L., Lane, S. P., Pronove, L. M., Treloar, H. R., Brown, W. C., Solhan, M. B., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (2015). Undifferentiated Negative Affect and Impulsivity in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Momentary Perspective. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 124, 740-753.

Scheiderer, E. M., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (2015). The Comorbidity of Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Role of Childhood Sexual Abuse. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation. 2015, 2:11 DOI: 10.1186/s40479-015-0032-y URL: http://www.bpded.com/content/2/1/11

Schermer, J. A., Martin, R. A., Martin, N. G., Lynskey, M. T., Trull, T. J., Vernon, P. A. (2015). Humor styles and borderline personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 87, 158-161.

Few, L., Werner, K., Sartor, C., Trull, T., Nock, M., Bucholz, K., Dietz, S., Glowinski, A., Martin, N., Statham, D., Heath, A., Lynskey, M., Agrawal, A. (2015). Early onset alcohol use and self-harm: A discordant twin analysis. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39, 2134-2142.

Scheiderer, E. M., Wang, T., Tomko, R. L., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (2016). Negative Affect Instability among Individuals with Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 67-81.

Few, L. R., Miller , J. D., Grant, J. D., Maples, J., Trull, T. J.,  Nelson, E. C., Oltmanns, T. F., Martin, N. G., Lynskey, M. T., & Agrawal, A. (2016). Trait-based assessment of borderline personality disorder using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory: Phenotypic and genetic support. Psychological Assessment, 28, 39-50.

Lane, S. P., Carpenter, R. W., Sher, K. J., & Trull, T. J. (2016). Alcohol Craving and Consumption in Borderline Personality Disorder: When, Where, and with Whom. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 775-792.

Houben, M., Bohus, M., Santangelo, P., Ebner-Priemer, U., Trull, T., & Kuppens, P. (2016). The Specificity of Emotional Switching in Borderline Personality Disorder in Comparison to Other Clinical Groups. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7, 198-204.

Carpenter, R. W., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (2016). Comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and lifetime substance use disorders in a nationally representative sample. Journal of Personality Disorders, 30, 336-350.

Hepp, J., Carpenter, R. W., Lane, S. P., & Trull, T. J. (2016). Momentary symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder as a function of trait personality and social context. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 7, 384-393.

Helle, A. C., Trull, T. J., Widiger, T. A., Mullins-Sweatt, S. N. (2016). Utilizing Multi-method Assessment of the Five-Factor Model to Examine Convergence with the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment,

Carpenter, R. W., Wycoff, A. M., & Trull, T. J. (2016). Ambulatory Assessment: New adventures in characterizing dynamic processes. Assessment, 23, 414-424.

Few, L.R., Grant, J.D., Nelson, E.C., Trull, T.J., Grucza, R.A., Bucholz, K.K., Verweij, K.J.H., Martin, N.G., Statham, D., Madden, P.A.F., Heath, A.C., Lynskey, M.T., & Agrawal, A. (2016). Cannabis involvement and non-suicidal self-injury: A discordant twin approach. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77, 873-880.

Trull, T. J., Wycoff, A. M., Lane, S. P., Carpenter, R. W., & Brown, W. C. (2016). Cannabis and Alcohol Use, Affect, and Impulsivity in Psychiatric Outpatients’ Daily Lives. Addiction, 111, 2052-2059. PMCID: PMC5056804 DOI: 10.1111/add.13471

Carpenter, R. W., Trela, C. J., Lane, S. P., Wood, P. K., & Trull, T. J. (2017). Elevated rate of alcohol consumption in borderline personality disorder patients in daily life. Psychopharmacology, 234, 3395–3406.

Wycoff, A., Carpenter, R. W., Hepp, J., Lane, S. P., & Trull, T. J. (2020). Drinking motives moderate daily-life associations between affect and alcohol use in individuals with borderline personality disorder. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 34(7), 745–755. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000588

Wycoff, A.M., Motschman, C.A., Griffin, S.A., Helle, A.C., Piasecki, T.M., & Trull, T.J. (2022). Simultaneous Use of Alcohol and Cigarettes in a Mixed Psychiatric Sample: Daily-life Associations with Smoking Motives, Craving, Stimulation, Sedation, and Affect. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36, 942-954.

Haney, A.M., Motschman, C.A., Warner, O.M., Wesley, R.L., Wycoff, A.M., Trull, T.J., & McCarthy, D.M. (2022). Comparing associations between mood and breath alcohol concentration in the laboratory and natural environment. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 36, 885-894.

Trull, T.J., Freeman, L.K., Fleming, M.N., Vebares, T.J., & Wycoff, A.M. (2022).  Using ecological momentary assessment and a portable device to quantify standard tetrahydrocannabinol units for cannabis flower smoking. Addiction, 117, 2351-2358.

Lane, S. P., & Trull, T. J. (2022). Operationalizing undifferentiated affect: Validity and utility in clinical samples. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 690030.


Wycoff, A. M., Motschman, C. A., Griffin, S. A., Freeman, L. K., & Trull, T. J. (2022). Momentary subjective responses to alcohol as predictors of continuing to drink during daily-life drinking episodes. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 241, 109675.

Freeman, L.K., Haney, A.M., Griffin, S.A., Fleming, M.N., Vebares, T.J., Motschman, C.A., & Trull, T.J. (2023). Agreement between momentary and retrospective reports of cannabis use and alcohol use: Comparison of ecological momentary assessment and Timeline Follow-back indices. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 37(4), 606-615.
 

Haney, A. M., Fleming, M. N., Wycoff, A. M., Griffin, S. A., & Trull, T. J. (2023). Measuring affect in daily life: A multilevel psychometric evaluation of the PANAS-X across four ecological momentary assessment samples. Psychological Assessment, 35(6), 469–483. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001231

Yu, C. Y., Shang, Y., Hough, T. M., Bokshan, A. L., Fleming, M. N., Haney, A. M., & Trull, T. J. (2023). Predicting quantity of cannabis smoked in daily life: An exploratory study using machine learning. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 252, 110964.

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