My research focuses on three areas. (1) My research in the area of developmental
psychology/psychopathology focuses on the origins, continuity, and change of
individual differences in both normal and abnormal psychological traits. (2) My
research in the area of social psychology and social psychiatry focuses on social
inequalities and mental health. (3) My research in the area of personality
psychology focuses on integrating methods and concepts from differential
psychology with those in epidemiology in order to better understand how and why
personality differences shape health-risk behaviors.
Caspi, A. (1998). Personality development across the life course. In W.
Damon (Ser. Ed.) and N. Eisenberg (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology,
Vol. 3: Social, emotional, and personality development (pp. 311-388).
New York: Wiley.
Caspi, A. (2000). The child is father of the man: Personality continuities from
childhood to adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78,
158-172.
Caspi, A., Moffitt, T.E., Newman, D.L., & Silva, P.A. (1996). Behavioral
observations at age 3 predict adult psychiatric disorders: Longitudinal
evidence from a birth cohort. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53,
1033-1039.
Caspi, A., Begg, D., Dickson, N., Harrington, H.L., Langley, J., Moffitt,
T.E., & Silva, P.A. (1997). Personaltiy traits predict health-risk
behaviors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1052-1063.
Caspi, A., Lynam, D., Moffitt, T.E., & Silva, P. (1993). Unraveling
girls' delinquency: Biological, dispositional, and contextual contributions
to adolescent misbehavior. Developmental Psychology, 29 (1), 19-30.
