Martin Sellbom, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 		Primary Concentration:
  Secondary Concentration:
Psychology & Law  
     
Contact Information:
  Courses:
Office: 368-C Gordon Palmer Hall
  • Psychological Assessment 2
  • Psychology, Law, and Justice
  • Personality
  • Abnormal Psychology

 

Phone: (205)  348-9936
FAX: (205)  348-8648  
E-Mail: msellbom@ua.edu 
  Website: coming soon  
Research Interests: My research interests fall broadly into the two domains of personality assessment and psychopathology. I am particularly interested in the interaction between personality and psychopathology in terms of shared underlying mechanisms and hierarchical structure. My research has especially focused on the psychopathic personality and its association with personality and neurocognition. In terms of assessment, my research has centered on the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF with a primary focus on emphasizing construct validity in scale interpretation. I am also interested in forensic assessment applications of these and other instruments, including their utility in detecting various forms of response bias (e.g., malingering), psychopathy, and providing information regarding future re-offending.
 
Research Affiliations: Personality, Psychopathology, and Measurement Lab
 
 
Recent Publications:

Sellbom, M., & Bagby, R. M. (2008). Response Styles on Multi-Scale Inventories. In R. Rogers (Ed.), Clinical Assessment of Malingering and Deception (3rd Ed.). New York: Guilford Press.

  Sellbom, M., Ben-Porath, Y. S., & Bagby, R. M. (2008). On the Hierarchical Structure of Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Confirmatory Evidence and An Elaborated Model of Temperament Markers. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 576-590.
  Sellbom, M., Ben-Porath, Y. S., & Stafford, K. S.  (2007). A Comparison of MMPI-2 Measures of Psychopathic Deviance in a Forensic Setting. Psychological Assessment, 19, 430-436.
  Sellbom, M. & Verona, E. (2007). Neuropsychological correlates of psychopathic traits in a non-incarcerated sample. Journal of Research in Personality, 41, 276-294
  Sellbom, M., Ben-Porath, Y. S., Lilienfeld, S. O., Patrick, C. J., & Graham, J. R. (2005). Assessing Psychopathic Personality Traits with the MMPI-2. Journal of Personality Assessment, 85, 334-343.