Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Nicole M. Cain is
an associate professor at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. She earned her doctorate in
clinical psychology from Pennsylvania State University and completed a
postdoctoral fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical
College in the Personality Disorders Institute. She earned an early career
award from the Society for Personality Assessment in 2017 and has served as an
associate editor for two journals, Assessment and Journal of
Personality Assessment. She is a past president of the Society
for Interpersonal Theory and Research. Her primary research
interests focus on understanding how personality pathology and interpersonal
functioning impact diagnosis, psychotherapy process, and treatment outcome. Her
recent work has also focused on examining how effortful control, rejection
sensitivity, and interpersonal problems impact maladaptive outcomes, such as
suicidal ideation and behavior.
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