Kasey Stanton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Clinical Psychology
Transdiagnostic psychopathology, mood, and personality assessment
I am planning to review graduate student applications for Fall 2025 admission (applications
are due December 1, 2024).
Clinical Psychology Internship, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
PhD, University of Notre Dame
B.S. Montana State University Billings
A.S. Miles Community College
Kstanto1@uwyo.edu - Biological Sciences Building 128
Research interests:
- Transdiagnostic models for improving clinical research, diagnosis, and treatment
- Mood, personality, externalizing psychopathology, and bipolar spectrum symptoms
- Dimensional models of psychopathology and mental health diagnosis
- Psychometrics, measure development, and factor analysis
Representative publications:
- Stanton, K., Gillikin, L., Willis, L., Woods-Gonzalez, R., Myntti, W., Paige, C.,
Levin-Aspenson, H. F., McDonnell, C. G., & Emery, N. N. (In press). Understanding broader community perspectives on the scientific accuracy and stigma
of personality trait labels. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
- Stanton, K., Balzen, K., Brock, P., DeFluri, C., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., & Zimmerman,
M. (2023). Negative mood dysregulation loads strongly onto common factors with many
forms of psychopathology: Considerations for assessing nonspecific symptoms. Assessment, 31, 637-650.
- Stanton, K., Mostajabi, J., Myntti, W., Willis, L., Yun, J., Osborne, H., & Brewer,
K. L. (2023). Examining the joint factor structure of mania, internalizing, and thought
disorder symptoms in a large online sample. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology, 1, 289-301.
- Stanton, K., Watts, A. L., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., Carpenter, R. W., Emery, N. N.,
& Zimmerman, M. (2023). Focusing narrowly on model fit in in factor analysis can mask
construct heterogeneity and model misspecification: Applied demonstrations across
sample and assessment types. Journal of Personality Assessment, 105, 1-13.
- Google scholar link for a full list of publications: https://rb.gy/pldwf
- Open Science Framework page and manuscript preprints: https://osf.io/bczyx/
Teaching:
PSYC 2000: Research Methods
PSYC 4390: Personality Science
PSYC 4500: Intro to Clinical Psychology
