About the group

The Personality Assessment Lab (PAL) is focused on research into four main areas:

  1. Translation, standardization, and norms for new and established assessment methods

  2. Developing and implementing new methods for establishing the validity of assessment tools

  3. Evaluating theoretical, empirical, and dimensional models of personality and psychopathology

  4. Experimental studies on response bias and response validity (simulation/dissimulation)

The main research focus of the PAL is directed toward dimensional models of personality and psychopathology. The ongoing studies involve the Five Factor Model, Psychopathy Traits, Light and Dark Traits, Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and the HiTOP model of psychopathology.

Projects

Personality and Distress (Personlighet og plager): PI Cato Grønnerød

Personality Traits and Psychological Functioning within the HiTOP Framework: Ph.D. project by Milena Nikolić

Components of Psychopathy: Ph.D. project by Gisele Magarotto Machado (guest researcher from University of São Francisco, Brazil)

Cooperation

PAL is currently developing cooperation with the following partners:

Previous events

  • Professor Lucas de Francisco Carvalho, University of São Francisco, Brazil (December 2023)
  • PhD Student Janan Mostajabi (4. December 2024): Structure of Current Psychopathology and its Associations with Daily Life Experiences using the HiTOP-SR

  • Midterm evaluation for PhD stud. Milena Nikolić Wednesday 22.01.2025 at 10:15-12:00 in Seminar room 4.