For more than a century, research on psychopathology has focused on categorical
diagnoses. Although this work has produced major discoveries, growing evidence points to …

This review describes the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model of
psychosis-related psychopathology, the psychosis superspectrum. The HiTOP psychosis …

We argue that it is useful to distinguish between three key goals of personality science—
description, prediction and explanation—and that attaining them often requires different …

The network approach to psychopathology is becoming increasingly popular. The motivation
for this approach is to provide a replacement for the problematic common cause perspective …

Clinical and basic personality psychologists interact less than they should, given their similar
interests. In clinical personality psychology, available evidence supports a transition from the …

Cronbach's (1957) famous division of scientific psychology into two disciplines is still
apparent for the fields of cognition (general mechanisms) and intelligence (dimensionality of …

Emotions are part and parcel of the human condition, but their nature is debated. Three
broad classes of theories about the nature of emotions can be distinguished: affect-program …

When it originated in the late 19th century, psychometrics was a field with both a scientific
and a social mission: Psychometrics provided new methods for research into individual …

This article attends to recent discussions of validity in psychometric research on human life
history strategy (LHS), provides a constructive critique of the extant literature, and describes …

Seduced by their mathematical beauty, psychologists have been using latent variable
models for more than a century. Whether discussing a general factor of cognitive ability …