Kasey Stanton, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology

Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology

Contact Information

Kstanto1@uwyo.edu

BS 128

Kasey Stanton Photo

 Transdiagnostic psychopathology, mood, and personality assessment

I am planning to review graduate student applications for Fall 2026 admission for the clinical program only (applications are due December 1, 2025).

 

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

 

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. (2025). Understanding broader community perspectives on the scientific accuracy and stigma of personality trait labels. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 16, 91-102.

  • Stanton, K., Merwin, A. L., Lindley, S. M., & Emery, N. N. (2025). Informing the dimensional classification of mania: A daily diary study of symptom-level structure. Psychological Assessment, 37(4), 187–193.

  • Peng, Z., Stanton, K., Dominguez-Alvarez, B., & Watts, A. L. (2025). Where does attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder fit in the psychopathology hierarchy? A symptom-focused analysis. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 134, 143–161.

  • Stanton, K., Balzen, K., Brock, P., DeFluri, C., Levin-Aspenson, H. F., & Zimmerman, M. (2024). Negative mood dysregulation loads strongly onto common factors with many forms of psychopathology: Considerations for assessing nonspecific symptoms. Assessment, 31, 637-650.

  • 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