Avshalom Caspi

Phone: 262.3166
Email: a.caspi@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Office: 421 Psychology

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Professor
Ph.D. 1986, Cornell University
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.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

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.

Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T.E. (1993). When do individual differences matter? A paradoxical theory of personality coherence. Psychological inquiry, 4, 247-271.

Caspi, A., & Bem, D.J. (1990). Personality continuity and change across the life course. In L. Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of Personality Theory and Research. New York: Guilford.

Caspi, A., Bem, D.J., & Elder, G.H., Jr. (1989). Continuities and consequence of interactional styles across the life course. Journal of Personality, 57, 375-406.
Krueger, R.F., Caspi, A. & Moffitt, T.E. (2000). Epidemiological personology: The unifying role of personality in population-based research on problem behaviors. Journal of Personality, 68, 967-998.

Miech, R.A., Caspi, A., Moffitt, T.E., Wright, B.E., & Silva, P.A. (1999). Low socio-economic status and mental disorders: A longitudinal study of causation and selection. American Journal of Sociology, 104, 1096-1131.

Plomin, R. & Caspi, A. (1999). Behavioral genetics and personality. In L.A. Pervin & O.P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research. New York: Guilford Press.