Dr. Jennifer Tackett

RESEARCH

Professor Tackett conducts research that spans the areas of developmental psychopathology, personality measurement and development, behavioural genetics, and statistics, measurement, and classification. She has conducted research on topics such as personality-psychopathology relationships in adults and children, classification issues in the domain of Conduct Disorder, and personality structure in middle childhood. Presently, she is continuing to investigate personality-psychopathology relationships across the lifespan and pursuing methods for measuring personality in childhood. She is starting a longitudinal study of personality-psychopathology relationships in middle childhood. Current research also includes utilizing behaviour genetic methods to better understand personality and externalizing problems such as relational aggression.