In press
Kotelnikova, Y., Clark, L.A., Ruggero, C.L., Ringwald, W.R., Narrow, W.E., Reed, G.W., Skodol, A.E., Tyrer, P.J., Zimmerman, M., & Kotov, R. (in press). Strategies for establishing clinical-decision thresholds in psychiatry: A call to action. JAMA Psychiatry.
Vrieze, S., Elliott, M., Iacono, W.G., Klimes-Dougan, B., Krueger, R.F., Lissek, S., Luciana, M., MacDonald, A., Ringwald, W.R., Siegel, W., Waldman, I., Wilson, S. (in press). Advancing clinical psychology with improved doctoral training in science. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
Wilson, S., Ringwald, W.R., Michelini, G. (in press). Transdiagnostic psychopathology research requires comprehensive, lifespan coverage of psychological dysfunction and function and ability: A commentary on Caspi et al. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
Wenzel, M., Ringwald, W. R., Kaurin, A., Tüscher, O., Kubiak, T., & Wright, A. G. C. (in press). Affective variability prospectively predicts higher affective well-being, but only when people feel low. Emotion.
Wenzel, M., Ringwald, W. R., Kaurin, A., & Wright, A. G. C. (in press). Research on individual differences in affective reactivity should use weak, ambiguous situations rather than the strong situations used in typical affect induction procedures. European Journal of Personality.
Wright, A.G.C., Ringwald, W.R., Vize, C.E., Eichstaedt, J.C., Angstadt, M., Taxali, A., Sripada, C. (in press). Assessing personality using zero-shot generative AI scoring of brief open-ended text. Nature Human Behavior.
Mostajabi, J., Vize, C.E., Nielsen, S.R., Ringwald, W.R., Wright, A.G.C. (in press). Structure of current psychopathology and its associations with daily life experiences using the HiTOP-PRO in a mixed clinical/community sample. Psychological Assessment. Preprint: https://osf.io/z4c36
Wenzel, M., Ringwald, W.R., Kaurin, A. Tuscher, O., Kubiak, T., Wright, A.G.C. (in press). Unraveling the link between neuroticism and well-being in daily life: The role of event occurrence, event appraisals, affective reactivity, and affective recovery. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Ringwald, W.R., Lawson, K.M., Kaurin, A., Robins, R.W. Linking temperament and personality traits from late childhood to adulthood by examining continuity, stability, and change (in press). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Preprint: osf.io/28sav_v1/
Ringwald, W. R., Abramovitch, A., Agelink van Rentergem, J. A., & Kotov, R. (in press). Do cognitive functions belong in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Model? A meta-analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8r2vq
Kotov, R., Ringwald, W. R., & HiTOP Normal Personality Workgroup (in press). The role of personality in psychiatry: insights from the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). World Psychiatry.
Müller, S., Schroeders, U., Bachrach, N., Benecke, C., Cuevas, L., Doering, S., Elklit, A., Gutiérrez, F., Hengartner, M. P., Hogue, T., Hopwood, C. J., Mihura, J. L., Oltmanns, T., Paap, M., Pedersen, G., Renn, D., Ringwald, W. R., Rossi, G., Samuels, J., ... Zimmermann, J. (in press). Revisiting the structure of DSM-5 section II personality disorder criteria using individual participant data meta-analysis. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Pre-print: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/f2yvj
2025
Ringwald, W.R., King, G. Vize, C.E., & Wright, A.G.C. (2025). Passive smartphone sensors for detecting psychopathology. JAMA Network Open, 8(7). Pre-print: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3tyjp_v1
Ringwald, W.R., Feltman, S., Schwartz, H.A., Samaras, D., Khudari, C., Luft, B.J., & Kotov, R. (2025). Day-to-day dynamics of facial expressions in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 380, 331-339. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/6fqg9
Ringwald, W. R., Feltman, S., Clouston, S., Mann, F. D., Ruggero, C., Bromet, E.J., Luft, B.J. & Kotov, R. (2025). Mechanisms of stress that maintain posttraumatic stress disorder across 20 years. Psychological Medicine, 55. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/egaxv
Hopwood, C.J., Aafjes-van Doorn, K., Bekes, V., Luo, X., Ringwald, W.R., Wright, A.G.C. (2025). Is psychological research producing the kind of knowledge clinicians find useful? American Psychologist.
Ringwald, W.R., Vize, C.E., & Wright, A.G.C. (2025). Do you feel what I feel? The relation between affective congruence and empathy in daily life social situations. Emotion. Pre-print: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/g7n4a
Ringwald, W. R., Napolitano, C., Sewell, M. N., Soto, C. J., Yoon, H. R., & Wright, A. G.C. (2025). More skill than trait, or more trait than skill? Relations of (mis)matches between personality traits and social, emotional, behavioral skills with adolescent outcomes. European Journal of Personality. Pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/d2z5b/
Ringwald, W. R., Creswell, K., Low, C., Doryab, A., Chung, T., Oliva, J. B., Fisher, Z.F., Gates, K.M., & Wright, A. G. C. (2025) Common and uncommon risky drinking patterns in young adulthood uncovered by person-specific computational modeling. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xqs9j
Wright, A.G.C., Ringwald, W.R., & Zimmerman, J. (2025). Measuring multidimensional hierarchies of psychopathology in everyday life. Clinical Psychological Science, 13(3), 649-663. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/h8npk
Ringwald, W.R., Edershile, E. A., Mostajabi, J., Nielsen, S., Woods, W. C., Simms, L., & Wright, A. G.C. (2025). Daily manifestations of psychopathology in response to stress. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 134(2), 117-131. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/enzdv
Wenzel, M., Kaurin, A., Ringwald, W.R., & Wright, A.G.C. (2025). Affective variability is concurrently associated with higher neuroticism and poorer affective well-being, but prospectively associated with better affective well-being. Journal of Personality, 93(3), 740-754.
Vize, C.E., Ringwald, W.R., Perkins, E.R., Waller, R., Hawes, S.W., & Byrd, A.L. (2025). The hierarchical structure and longitudinal measurement invariance of externalizing symptoms in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. Personality Disorders: Theory Research and Treatment, 16(1), p.18. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/7t8yc/
2024
Ringwald, W. R., Shields, A., Kushner, S. C., Herzhoff, K., & Tackett, J. L. (2024). Cross-situational variability in childhood personality states. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(5). Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/sfu3k
Ringwald., W.R., Woods, W.C., & Wright, A.G.C. (2024). Comparing the DSM-5 personality disorder models scored from the same interview. Personality Disorders: Theory Research and Treatment, 15(5). 371-378
Vize, C., Ringwald, W. R., Kamarck, T., Scott, L., Pilkonis, P. A., & Wright, A.G.C. (2024). Evidence for a vicious socio-emotional cycle of negative emotions and interpersonal conflict. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92(8). Pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/u9y5g/
Ringwald, W.R., Nielsen, S.R., Mostajabi, J., Vize, C.E., van den Berg, T., Manuck, S.B., Marsland, A.L., & Wright, A.G.C. (2024). Characterizing stress processes by linking Big Five personality states, traits, and day-to-day stressors. Journal of Research in Personality, 110. Pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/h5dzx
Ringwald, W.R., Kaurin, A. Lawson, K.M., Wright, A.G.C., & Robins, R.W. (2024). The development of personality – from metatraits to facets – across adolescence and emerging adulthood in a sample of Mexican-origin youth. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(6). Pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/ft3cq/
Forbes, M. K., Ringwald, W. R., Allen, T., Cicero, D. C., Clark, L. A., DeYoung, C. G., … & Wright, A. G. (2024). Principles and procedures for revising the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133(1), 4-19. Pre-print: https://psyarxiv.com/xr48p/ https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xr48p
Ringwald, W.R., Pilkonis, P.A., & Wright, A.G.C. (2024). Filling gaps in the nomological networks for dominance and affiliation by examining self-informant agreement on momentary interpersonal behavior. European Journal of Personality, 38(2), 158-171. Pre-print: psyarxiv.com/nes7b/
2023
Ringwald, W.R., Emery, L., Khoo, S., Clark, L.A., Kotelnikova, Y., Scalco, M.D., Watson, D., & Wright, A.G.C., Simms, L.J. (2023). Structure of pathological personality traits through the lens of the CAT-PD model. Assessment, 30(7), 2276-2295. Pre-print: psyarxiv.com/kuefm/
Wright, A. G. C., Ringwald, W. R., Hopwood, C. J., & Pincus, A. L. (2023). On definition and description in psychopathology: Reply to Widiger et al. (2023). American Psychologist, 78(5), 716–717.
Kumar, L., Ringwald, W.R., Wright, A.G.C. & Creswell, K.G., (2023). Associations of state and trait empathy with daily alcohol use. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 47(5), 951-962.
Woods, W.C., Edershile, E.A., Ringwald, W.R., Sharpe, B.M., Himmelstein, P.H., Newman, M.G., Wilson, S.J., Ellison, W.D., Levy, K.N., Pincus, A.L., Creswell, J.D., & Wright, A.G.C. (2023). Psychometric evaluation of a visual interpersonal analogue scale. Psychological Assessment, 35(4), 311-324.
Watts, A.L., Greene, A.L., Ringwald, W.R., Forbes, M.K., Brandes, C.M., Levin-Aspenson, H.F., & Delawala, C. (2023). Factor analysis in personality disorders research: Modern issues and illustrations of practical recommendations. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 14(1), 105-117.
Ringwald, W.R., Forbes, M.K. & Wright, A.G.C. (2023). Meta-analysis of structural evidence for the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) model. Psychological Medicine, 53(2), 533-546.
Ringwald, W.R., Kaurin, A., DuPont, C.M., Gianaros, P.J., Marsland, Muldoon, M.F., A.L. Wright, A.G.C., & Manuck, S.B. (2023). The personality meta-trait of Stability and carotid artery atherosclerosis. Journal of Personality, 91(2), 271-284.
Ringwald, W.R., Dombrovski, A.Y., Hallquist, M.N. & Wright, A.G.C. (2023). Personality (dys)function and general instability. Clinical Psychological Science, 11(1), 106-120.
2022
Wright, A.G.C., Ringwald, W.R., Hopwood, C.J., & Pincus, A.L. (2022). It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders. American Psychologist, 77(9), 1085-1099.
Ringwald, W.R., Forbes, M.K. & Wright, A.G.C. (2022). Meta-analytic tests of measurement invariance of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology across common methodological characteristics. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 131(8), 847-856.
Yan, R., Ringwald, W.R., Vega-Hernandez, J., Kehl, M., Bae, S.W., Dey, A.K., Low, C., Wright, A.G.C., & Doryab, A. (2022). Exploratory machine learning modeling of adaptive and maladaptive personality traits from passively sensed behavior. Future Generation Computer Systems, 132 (2), 266-281.
Ringwald, W.R., Hallquist, M.N., Dombrovski, A.Y. & Wright, A.G.C. (2022). Transdiagnostic associations with interpersonal and affective variability in borderline personality pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 36(3), 320-338.
Wright, A.G.C. & Ringwald, W.R. (2022). Personality disorders are dead, long live the interpersonal disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 13(4), 364-368.
Ringwald, W.R., Manuck, S.B., Marsland, A.L. & Wright, A.G.C. (2022). Psychometric evaluation of a Big Five personality state scale for intensive longitudinal studies. Assessment, 29(6), 1301-1319.
2021
Ringwald, W.R., Edershile, E.A., Hale, J., Williams, T.F., Simms, L.J., Creswell, K.G., Bachrach, R.L., & Wright, A.G.C (2021). Role of pregaming motives in accounting for links between maladaptive personality traits and drinking consequences. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 13(2), 192-197.
Vize, C.E., Ringwald, W.R., Edershile, E.A. & Wright, A.G.C. (2021). Antagonism in daily life: An exploratory ecological momentary assessment study. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(1), 90-108.
Ringwald, W.R. & Wright, A.G.C. (2021). The affiliative role of empathy across everyday interactions. European Journal of Personality, 35(2). 197-211.
Hruschak, V., Yan, Y., Ringwald, W.R., Beaugard, C., Repine, M.J., Pacella, M.L., Rosen, D., & Cochran, G. (2021). Pain appraisals in patients with physical injury: Assessing the role of distress tolerance in the relationship between depression and pain catastrophizing. Health and Social Work, 46(1). 187-198.
Ringwald, W.R., Sharpe, B.M., Edershile, E.A., Woods, W.C., & Wright, A.G.C. (2021). Psychopathology and personality functioning. In J.F. Rauthmann (Ed). The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes (pp. 275-290). Elsevier-Academic Press.
2020
Ringwald, W.R., Hopwood, C.J., Pilkonis, P.A., & Wright, A.G.C. (2020). Dynamic features of interpersonal behavior and affect in relation to general and specific personality pathology. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 12(4), 365–376.
Barber, T.A., Ringwald, W.R.*, Wright, A.G.C., & Manuck, S.B. (2020). Borderline personality disorder traits associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 11(2), 151-156.
* Shared first authorship
Ringwald, W.R., Edershile, E.A., Woods, W.C., & Wright, A.G.C. (2020). The Need for Mechanistic Models when Moving from Bench to Bedside with the DSM-5 and ICD-11 Traits: Commentary on Using DSM-5 and ICD-11 Personality Traits in Clinical Treatment. In C.W. Lejuez & K.L. Gratz (Eds). The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders (pp. 471-474). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Cochran, G., Pacella, M.L., Ringwald, W.R., Repine, M., Hruschak, V., Beaugard, C., Sewall, C., Rosen, D., Alarcon, L.H., Tarkin, I.S., Moloney, G.B., & Corcos, A. (2020). Opioid use patterns and risk characteristics among injured patients. Substance Abuse, 41(1), 24-28.
2019
Ringwald, W.R., Beeney, J.E., Pilkonis, P.A., & Wright, A.G.C. (2019). Comparing hierarchical models of personality pathology. Journal of Personality Research, 81, 98-107.
Beeney, J.E., Stepp, S.D., Hallquist, M.N., Ringwald, W.R., Wright, A.G.C., Lazarus, S.A., Scott, L.N., Mattia, A.A., Ayars, H.E., Gebresalassie, S.H., & Pilkonis, P.A. (2019). Attachment styles, social behavior and personality functioning in romantic relationships. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, 10(3), 275–285.
Beeney, J.E., Hallquist, M.N., Scott, L.N., Ringwald, W.R., Stepp, S.D., Lazarus, S.A., Mattia, A.A. & Pilkonis, P.A. (2019). The emotional bank account and the four horsemen of the apocalypse in romantic relationships of people with borderline personality disorder: A dyadic observational study. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(5), 1063–1077.
2018
Cochran, G., Field, C.A., Karp, J., Seybert, A.L., Chen, Q., Ringwald, W.R., Hruschak, V., Chickering, S., Kincman, J., Jaber, A., & Tarter, R. (2018). A community pharmacy intervention for opioid medication misuse: A pilot randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 58(4), 395-403.
Ringwald, W.R. (2018). Subjectivity as “evidence:” An exploration of medication adherence in the treatment of schizophrenia using in-depth interviews. Journal of Progressive Human Services.