Faculty Member David Kosson

David Kosson, Ph.D. Professor Phone: 847-578-8761 Email: david.kosson@rosalindfranklin.edu
Research interests
My research interests are in the psychological mechanisms that differentiate psychopathic from nonpsychopathic inmates and normal adults, including attentional function, emotional processing, and interpersonal behavior, and in the developmental processes that contribute to adult psychopathy. Several ongoing studies test competing hypotheses regarding the mechanisms underlying psychopathic offenders' cognitive and emotional deficits. Other studies examine whether subgroups of offenders are characterized by distinct emotional and cognitive deficits. Some of my related interests include interrelations between cognition, motivation, and emotion, including emotion regulation; mechanisms underlying interpersonal approaches to the assessment of personality disorder, and studies examining the interpersonal manifestations of psychopathy, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Schizoid Personality Disorder are now in progress.
Recent publications
Rosenthal, M.Z., Gratz, K.L., Kosson, D.S., Lejuez, C.W., Cheavens, J.S. & Lynch, T.R. (in press). Borderline personality disorder and emotional responding: A review of the research literature. Clinical Psychology Review. Swogger, M.T, & Kosson, D.S. (in press). Identifying subtypes of criminal psychopaths: A replication and extension. Criminal Justice and Behavior. Walsh, Z., Allen, L.C., & Kosson, D.S. (in press). Beyond social deviance: Substance-specific relationships with PCL-R facets. Journal of Personality Disorders. View Pdf Kosson, D.S., Miller, S.K., Byrnes, K.A., & Leveroni, C. (2007). Testing neuropsychological hypotheses for cognitive deficits in psychopathic criminals: A study of global-local processing. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 267-276. View Pdf Lopez, M.L., Kosson, D.S., Weissman, D.H., & Banich, M.T. (2007). Interhemispheric integration in psychopaths. Neuropsychology, 21, 82-93. Swogger, M.T, Walsh, Z., & Kosson, D.S. (2007). Domestic violence and psychopathic traits in antisocial offenders. Aggressive Behaviour, 33, 1-8. View Pdf Walsh, Z.T., & Kosson, D.S. (2007). Psychopathy and violent crime: A prospective study of the influence of socioeconomic status and ethnicity. Law and Human Behavior, 31, 209-229. View Pdf Kosson, D.S., Budhani, S., Nakic, M., Chen, G., Saad, Z.S., Vythilingam, M, Pine, D.S., & Blair, R.J.R. (2006). The role of the amygdala and rostral anterior cingulate in encoding expected outcomes during learning. NeuroImage, 29, 1161-1172. Kosson, D.S., Lorenz, A., & Newman, J.P. (2006). Effects of co-morbid psychopathy on criminal offending and emotiona processing male offenders with antisocial personality disorder Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 798-806. Llanes, S., & Kosson, D.S. (2006). Divided attention and left hemisphere activation among psychopathic and nonpsychopathic offenders. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 28, 9-18. Lynch, T.R., Rosenthal, M.Z., Kosson, D.S., Cheavens, J.S., Lejuez, C.W., & Blair, R.J.R. (2006). Heightened Sensitivity to facial expression of emotion in borderline personality disorder. Emotion, 6, 647-655. Mayer, A.R., Kosson, D.S., & Bedrick, E.J. (2006). Neuropsychological implications of selective attentional functioning in psychopathic offenders. Neuropsychology, 20, 614-624. Neumann, C.S., Kosson, D.S., Forth, A.E., & Hare, R.D. (2006). Factor structure of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version in incarcerated adolescents. Psychological Assessment, 18, 142-154. Suchy, Y., & Kosson, D.S. (2006). Forming, switching, and maintaining mental sets among psychopathic offenders during verbal and nonverbal tasks: Another look at the left-hemisphere activation hypothesis. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 538-548. Sullivan, E.A., Abramowitz, C.S., Lopez, M.L., & Kosson, D.S. (2005). Reliability and construct validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised for Latino, European American, and African-American male inmates. Psychological Assessment, 18, 382-392. Suchy, Y., & Kosson, D.S. (2005). State-dependent executive deficits among psychopathic offenders: Implications for psychopathy research and clinical neuropsychology. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 311-321. View Pdf Vassileva, J., Kosson, D.S., Abramowitz, C., & Conrod, P. (2005). Psychopathy versus psychopathies in classifying criminal offenders. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 10, 27-43. View Pdf
Teaching
Systems of Psychotherapy Theoretical Psychopathology Electives: Psychopathy Childhood Psychopathology
Links
Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy http://www.psychopathysociety.org/ Society for Research in Psychopathology http://www.psychopathology.org/ Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy http://www.aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/index.php Aftermath: Surviving Psychopathy is a new organization designed to be of assistance to those whose lives, health, or careers have been negatively impacted by relationships with individuals with psychopathic features.