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Mark F. Lenzenweger

Distinguished Professor

Psychology
S4 G06

Background

Lenzenweger currently maintains two broad programs of experimental psychopathology research. The first concerns schizotypy and schizophrenia and the second concerns the longitudinal study of severe personality disorders. In the schizotypy/schizophrenia program he conducts studies of sustained attention, working memory, eye movements, motor performance, and somatosensory perception in relation to schizotypic psychopathology. In the personality disorders research program, he is currently conducting analyses of multiple waves of personality disorder, personality, and temperament data gathered through the landmark NIMH-funded Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders. He also studies borderline personality disorder from both a neurocognitive and neurobehavioral (i.e., neurobiological) perspective. He uses a variety of measurement approaches in the laboratory, including basic perception and cognitive tasks as well as psychometric methods.

Professor Lenzenweger will not be admitting clinical science graduate students for Fall 2024 admission.

Selected Publications

Books:

Lenzenweger, M.F. (2010). Schizotypy and schizophrenia: The view from experimental psychopathology. New York: Guilford Press. [ISBN 978-1-60623-865-3]

Articles:

Lenzenweger, M.F. (2015). Factors underlying the psychological and behavioral characteristics of Office of Strategic Services candidates: The Assessment of Men data revisited. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97, 100-110.

Lenzenweger, M.F. (2013). Thinking clearly about the endophenotype vs. intermediate phenotype vs. biomarker distinctions in developmental psychopathology research. [Invited Essay for 25th Anniversary Issue.] Development & Psychopathology, 25, 1347-1357.

Lenzenweger, M.F., McLachlan, G., & Rubin, D.B. (2007). Resolving the latent structure of schizophrenia endophenotypes using expectation-maximization-based finite mixture modeling. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116, 16-29.

Wastler, H.M., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2023). An examination of the relationship between positive schizotypy and suicide risk using five distinct samples Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science (formerly Journal of Abnormal Psychology), 132, 634-643.

Vizgaitis, A.L., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2022). Identity and personality pathology: A convergence across the DSM-5 personality disorder model and the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders. Journal of Personality Disorders, 36, 537-558.

Lenzenweger, M.F. (2023). Proximal processes, temperament, and narcissism:An empirical exploration from The Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders. Psychopathology, 56, 41-51.

Education

  • PhD, MA, Yeshiva University
  • AB, Cornell University

Research Interests

  • Schizophrenia and schizotypy
  • Severe personality disorders
  • Personality neuroscience
  • Quantitative/statistical methods
  • Longitudinal research methodology
  • Operational psychology and selection
  • Insider risk detection

Teaching Interests

  • Severe personality disorders
  • Schizotypy and schizophrenia
  • Narcissism and malignant narcissism
  • Research methods and statistics / psychometric theory

Awards

  • SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
  • SUNY Distinguished Professor of Psychology (lifetime)
  • 2015 CPA Canadian Psychology (CP) “Best Article of the Year Award”
  • American Psychological Foundation’s (APF) Theodore Millon Mid-Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Personality Psychology
  • Research Foundation of the State University of New York Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship
  • Fellow status, American Psychopathological Association (2003)
  • Distinguished Investigator Award, NARSAD (1999-2001)
  • Fellow status, American Psychological Society (1999)