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Susan C. South

  • Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences

Office and Contact

Room: PSYC 1150

Email: ssouth@purdue.edu

Phone: 765-494-0119


Education
PhD - University of Virginia Clinical - Psychology - 2006
 
Research Interests
interpersonal relationships, personality, psychopathology, cognitive aging
 
Teaching Interests
psychopathology, personality, structural equation modeling
 
Selected Grants
2024 - Purdue Women's Global Health Institute/Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute - (PI)
2022 - National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging - (Subcontract PI)
2022 - Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences DEI Small Grant - (Co-PI)
 
Selected Publications
Dashineau, S., Ingram, S., & South, S.C. (in press). Adaptive and maladaptive personality domains and externalizing traits associated with intimate behaviors in sexually active young adults. Personality and Individual Differences.
 
Dashineau, S., Reed, P., Aiken, H., Depoy, M., & South, S.C. (in press). A meta-analysis of the association between socioeconomic status and marital satisfaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
 
Freilich, C.D., Mann, F.D., South, S.C., & Krueger, R.F. (in press). Comparing phenotypic, genetic, and environmental associations between personality and loneliness. Journal of Research in Personality.
 
Hill, R., South, S.C., Samuel, D.B. (in press). Measurement Invariance of the FFOCI in a US Census matched sample: Demographic Differences in OCPD Traits across Age, Gender, and Education
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
 
Kotov, R., Ringwald, W. R., & HiTOP Normal Personality Workgroup (13 workgroup members including South, S.C. (in press). The role of personality in psychiatry: insights from the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). World Psychiatry.
 
Collison, K. L., Lynam, D.R., Du, T., & South, S.C. (2025). Testing a multidimensional factor structure of the self-control scale. Assessment. Epub ahead of print.
 
Lucas, K., South, S.C., Brown, S., Young, J., & Samuel, D.B. (2025). Personality profiles of women in relationships involving men with pathological personality features. Personality and Individual Differences, 233, 112866.
 
Dashineau, S.C., Balling, C.E., South, S.C., & Zimmerman, M. (2024). Borderline personality disorder and eating disorders: Investigating the role of emotion regulation. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 85, 23m15152.
 
Dashineau, S., Napolitano, S., & South, S.C. (2024). The association between personality, relationship satisfaction, and psychopathology in a three-wave, longitudinal study. Journal of Personality, 92, 1541-1555.
 
Rajesh, A., Zhang, K. A., Kelly, C., Aguilar Silvan, Y., Diehl, C. K., Obee, A. F., Wilson, M. K., Perez, V., Howard, E., Kang, S., Duong, J. B., Weiss, H., Sayegh, P., South, S. C., Manczak, E. M., Merchant, J. T., Merrill, B. M., & Eaton, N. R. (2024). Diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and antiracism statements by clinical psychological science programs: A mixed methods analysis of public commitments. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 18, 183–193.