Research and Publications

Dissertation by Brieman, C.: Exploring the Impact of Male Partners’ Psychopathic Traits on Female Partners’ Psychosocial Functioning. (Additional Exploration of the Impact of Female Partners’ Histories of Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Trauma on Current Functioning ).

Brieman, C., Kosson, D., & Singh, P. (under review). Love Stinks: Romantic Relationships with Partners with Psychopathic Traits. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy.

Singh, P., Brieman, C., Bate, G., Miller, S., & Kosson, D. (under review). The Impact of Social Support on Psychological Symptomatology in Women with Trauma History. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Kosson, D., Schraft, C., Brieman, C., McBride, C., Knight, R. (2020). Parental Rejecting Behaviors: Validating a Behaviorally Based Measure of Parental Emotional Abuse. Assessment, 1-19.

Gotisha, A.J., Vitacco, M.J., Dismukes, A.R., Brieman, C.L., Merz, J.L., & Shirtcliff, E.A. (2014). Beyond physiological hypoarousal: The role of life stress and callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated adolescent males. Hormones and Behavior, 65, 469-479.

Johnson, M., Dismukes, A., Vitacco, M., Brieman, C., Fleury, D., & Shirtcliff, E.A. (2014). Psychopathy’s influence on the coupling between hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and –gonadal axes among incarcerated adolescents. Developmental Psychobiology, 56, 448-458.

Brook, M., Brieman, C., & Kosson, D.S. (2013). Emotion processing in Psychopathy Checklist-assessed psychopathy: A review of the literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 33, 979-995.

Brieman, C., VanMoffaert, S., Schraft, C., & Kosson, D.S. (June 2013). Experiencing parental rejection: The association between parental antipathy and psychopathic traits among adult male offenders. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Conference, Washington, D.C.

Brieman, C., & Kosson, D. (June 2013). Relationships between psychopathy, socioeconomic status, and substance use disorders: The importance of the interpersonal component of psychopathy. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Conference, Washington, D.C.

Brieman, C., Schraft, C.V., McBride, C.K., Knight, R.A., Daversa, M.T. & Kosson, D.S. (March 2012). The association between parental rejection and psychopathic traits in adolescent offenders. PowerPoint talk presented at the All School Research Consortium.

Vitacco, M.J., Shirtcliff, E.A., & Brieman, C. (March 2012). Beyond physiological hypoarousal: The role of context and callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated adolescent males. Paper presented at the American Psychology and Law Society Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Brieman, C., Schraft, C.V., McBride, C.K., Knight, R.A., Daversa, M.T. & Kosson, D.S. (May 2011). The association between parental rejection and psychopathic traits in adolescent offenders. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Riser, R., Brieman, C. & Kosson, D.S. (May 2011). The relationship of father involvement and family structure in psychopathic offenders. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Gotisha, A.J., Shirtcliff, E.A., Vitacco, M.J., Graf, A.R., Brieman, C. & Merz, J. (March 2011). Neuroendocrine function of incarcerated youth: A mechanism for the development of psychopathy. Paper presented at Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Gotisha, A.J., Shirtcliff, E.A., Vitacco, M.J., Graf, A.R., Brieman, C. & Merz, J. (March 2011). Neuroendocrine functioning in incarcerated youth: A mechanism for the development of psychopathic traits. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Gotisha, A., Vitacco, M.J., Graf, A., Brieman, C. & Shirtcliff, E.A. (July 2009). Endocrine correlates of psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated youth. Poster presented at the International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology, San Francisco, CA.

Gotisha, A., Vitacco, M.J., Shirtcliff, E., Brieman, C., Graf, A. & Merz, J. (May 2009). Neuroendocrine correlates of psychopathy and callous-unemotional traits. Poster presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy, New Orleans, LA.