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

I WILL NOT be admitting new grad students

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

Ecological momentary assessment and ambulatory assessment:

1.   Trull, T. J., & Ebner-Primer, U. W. (2020). Ambulatory Assessment in Psychopathology Research: A Review of Recommended Reporting Guidelines and Current Practices. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 129, 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000473

2.   Trull, T. J., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2013). Ambulatory assessment. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 9, 151-176. PMC4249763

3.   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. PMC4262451

4.   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. PMC5056804

Personality, Personality Disorders, and Substance Use Disorders

  1. Trull, T. J., Sher, K. J., Minks-Brown, C., Durbin, J., & Burr, R. (2000). Borderline personality disorder     and substance use disorders: A review and integration. Clinical Psychology Review, 20, 235-253.                PMID: 10721499
  2. 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. PMC4262451
  3. 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. PMC4241053

  4. 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.  PMC5199026

Intensive longitudinal data analysis

  1. 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, 354-375. PMID: 19071999
  2. 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. PMID: 19222325
  3. 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. PMC4573801
  4. Trull, T. J., Lane, S. P., Koval, P., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2015). Affective dynamics and psychopathology. Emotion Review, 7, 355-361. PMC5016030

Borderline Personality Disorder: Diagnosis, description, and etiology

  1. Trull, T. J. (2001). Structural relations between borderline personality disorder features and putative etiological correlates. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 110, 471-481. PMID: 11502090
  2. Distel, M. A., Trull, T. J., Willemsen, G., Derom, C., Thiery, E., Grimmer, M., Martin, N. G., & Boomsma, D. I. (2008). Heritability of Borderline Personality Features is similar across Three Countries. Psychological Medicine, 38, 1219-1229. PMID: 17988414
  3. Distel, M. A., Trull, T. J., Vink, J. M., Willemsen, G., Derom, C. A., Lynskey, M., Martin, N. G., & Boomsma, D. I. (2009). The five factor model of personality and borderline personality disorder: A genetic analysis of comorbidity. Biological Psychiatry, 66, 1131-1138. PMID: 19748081
  4. Distel, M. A., Trull, T. J., de Moor, M., M., H., Vink, J. M., Geels, L. M., van Beek, J., H., D., A., Bartels, M., Willemsen, G., Neale, M. C., & Boomsma, D. I. (2012). Borderline personality traits and substance use: Genetic factors underlie the association with marijuana initiation and smoking, but not with alcohol use. Journal of Personality Disorders, 26, 867-879. PMID: 23281672

Dimensional models of personality disorder

  1. Trull, T. J., & Durrett, C. (2005). Categorical and dimensional models of personality disorders. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 355-380. PMID: 17716092
  2. Widiger, T. A., & Trull, T. J. (2007). Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: Shifting to a dimensional model. American Psychologist, 62, 71-83. PMID: 17324033
  3. Trull, T. J., Vergés, A., Wood, P. K., Jahng, S., & Sher, K. J. (2012). The Structure of DSM-IV-TR Personality Disorder Symptoms in a Large National Sample. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 3, 355-369. PMC3779622
  4. Trull, T. J., & Widiger, T. A. (2013). Dimensional models of personality: The five-factor model and the DSM-5. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 15(2), 135-146. PMC3811085

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/timothy.trull.1/bibliograpahy/46367593/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

Lab Area
Clinical Psychology
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