Mark F. LenzenwegerDistinguished Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Yeshiva University
Internship: The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center / Westchester Division
Post-doctoral Fellowships: The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center / Westchester Division; New York State Psychiatric Institute
Area: Clinical Psychology,
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology
E-mail: mlenzen at binghamton.edu
Phone: 607-777-7148
Office: Science IV, Room G08
Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University
Senior Research and Clinical Fellow
The Personality Disorders Institute
New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Westchester Division
Psychopathology (Associate Editor); Editorial Boards, Psychological Assessment, Assessment; Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Abnormal Psychology , Archives of General Psychiatry, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, American Psychologist, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Schizophrenia Research, Journal of Personality Disorders. Professional Societies (Memberships), American Psychopathological Association [APPA]- APPA Fellow Status, Society for Research in Psychopathology [SRP], American Psychological Society [APS] - APS Fellow status, American Psychological Association [APA], American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS], American Association of University Professors [AAUP]. Licensed psychologist: New York (#009577) and Massachusetts (#7378).
Schizophrenia and schizotypy, severe personality disorders, neurobiological bases of psychopathology, personality, and temperament, Behavioral and quantitative genetics, Classification and psychiatric diagnosis (e.g., DSM systems), quantitative/statistical methods (e.g., latent class methods and taxometric analysis), longitudinal research methodology, psychometric theory and objective personality assessment.
I currently maintain 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 I conduct studies of sustained attention, working memory, eye movements, motor performance, and somatosensory perception in relation to schizotypic psychopathology. In the personality disorders research program, I am currently conducting analyses of three waves of personality disorder, personality, and temperament data gathered using a longitudinal research design on a large number of young adults. I have also recently become more involved in the study of borderline personality disorder from both a neurocognitive and neurobehavioral (i.e., neurobiological) perspective. I use a variety of measurement approaches in the laboratory, including basic perception and cognitive tasks as well as psychometric methods.
My perspective on graduate training is in the tradition of the apprenticeship model in which students are exposed to all aspects of the research and clinical processes. In short, it is my hope that my students will develop into clear thinking clinical psychologists who are both creative researchers and competent clinicians.
Books:
Waller, N.G., Yonce, L.J., Grove, W.M., Faust, D.A., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (2006). A Paul Meehl Reader: Essays on the Practice of Scientific Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Inc.
Articles:
Lenzenweger, M.F. (2006). The Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders: History, design, and initial findings. ( Special Essay). Journal of Personality Disorders, 6, 645-670.
Lenzenweger, M.F. (2006). Schizotypy: An organizing framework for schizophrenia research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 162-166.
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.
Lenzenweger, M.F., & Willett, J.B. (2007). Modeling individual change in personality disorder features as a function of simultaneous individual change in personality dimensions linked to neurobehavioral systems: The Longitudinal Study of Personality Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, in press.
