{"id":176,"date":"2013-10-14T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:27:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:27:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prior to coming to Vassar, I\u00a0<\/span>spent my undergraduate years at\u00a0<\/span>Haverford College<\/a>, a small liberal arts college\u00a0near Philadelphia PA. I was a psychology major, with <\/span>Doug Davis<\/a>\u00a0as my primary research mentor. After graduating from Haverford, I received a 2-year Intramural Research Training Award to work at NIMH <\/a>with\u00a0<\/span>Anil Malhotra<\/a>\u00a0on a study of the pharmacogenetics of schizophrenia. <\/span><\/p>\n

My PhD in clinical psychology is from the University of Virginia<\/a>, where I worked on the\u00a0<\/span>Peer Nomination Project of Personality<\/a>, run by\u00a0<\/span>Eric Turkheimer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Tom Oltmanns<\/a>. Our research centered on the discrepancies between self-report and informant-report in the assessment of personality and personality disorders. My interest in the intersection between personality and social networks arose as a result, and I wrote my dissertation <\/a>on “Social Network Analysis of Self and Peer Perceptions of Pathological Personality.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I completed my\u00a0<\/span>clinical internship<\/a>\u00a0in my hometown of Pittsburgh, at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic<\/a>. My clinical rotations included, among others, an Intensive Outpatient Program for Borderline Personality Disorder, an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder treatment clinic, and a psychiatric emergency room. I stayed at WPIC for a\u00a0two-year research postdoctoral fellowship, where I worked with\u00a0<\/span>Paul Pilkonis<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0developing new models of interpersonal functioning in borderline personality disorder.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been at Vassar since 2006, and it’s been a great fit for me. My undergraduate experience at Haverford gave me a real desire to teach at a small liberal arts college. At\u00a0Vassar, I’ve found the right balance between teaching and research. I’ve been able to maintain a strong focus on teaching, in an environment that provides the resources and support I need for my research.<\/p>\n

When not doing academic things, I enjoy spending time in the beautiful Hudson Valley<\/a> with my wife and two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prior to coming to Vassar, I\u00a0spent my undergraduate years at\u00a0Haverford College, a small liberal arts college\u00a0near Philadelphia PA. I was a psychology major, with Doug Davis\u00a0as my primary research mentor. After graduating from Haverford, I received a 2-year Intramural Research Training Award to work at NIMH with\u00a0Anil Malhotra\u00a0on a study of the pharmacogenetics of schizophrenia. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/clifton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}