Jared Ruchensky
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology
Education
Pre-Doctoral Internship, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
PhD, Texas A&M University
Masters, Texas A&M University
Bachelors, Creighton University
Research Interests
My primary research interests focus on the assessment and conceptualization of personality pathology, particularly the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD). I also study commonly used psychological instruments, including the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). Projects largely focus on how effectively instruments measure psychological constructs and the clinical consequences of both the measure and the construct. I am interested in examining these topics in diverse populations, particularly within sexual and gender minority individuals, and criminal-legal settings. My research agenda emphasizes multi-method assessment of personality. I am also interested in using ecological momentary assessment to examine dynamic processes associated with personality pathology. My overall goal is to help optimize commonly used personality instruments with a focus on improving assessment experiences of diverse (particularly LGBTQIA+) communities.
Lab Website: https://ruchenskypeplab.weeblysite.com/people.
Courses Taught
Statistics
Psychopathology
Personality Psychology
Publications/Research Listings
Ruchensky, J. R., Anderson, J. L., Shumaker, N. S.* (in press). A primer for using the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders in graduate student clinical training. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
Mulay, A. L., Gottfried, E. D., Ruchensky, J. R., Russell, T., Natoli, A. P., & Hopwood, C. J. (2025). The problem no one is talking about: Forensic evaluators’ lack of familiarity with dimensional approaches to personality and psychopathology. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2420172
Ruchensky, J. R., Concannon, A. B.*, Kittle, A. R.*, & Boccaccini, M. T. (2025). Personality Assessment Inventory-derived estimates of Section III Antisocial Personality Disorder and recidivism in a sample of men evaluated for Sexually Violent Predator status. Psychological Assessment, 37, 194-200.
Ruchensky, J. R., Edens, J. F., & Donnellan, M. B. (2025). Development of an inconsistent responding scale for the Big Five Inventory-2. Journal of Personality Assessment, 107, 384-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2411557
Dowgwillo, E. A., & Ruchensky, J. R. (2024). The influence of trauma symptoms on interpersonal attributions in daily life. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 37, 410–421. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.23036
Blais, M. A., Kelley, S. E., Ruchensky, J. R., Richardson, L. A., Massey, C., & Stein, M. B. (2024). Deriving the transdiagnostic scales from the Personality Assessment Inventory and SPECTRA: Indices of Psychopathology: A Demonstration. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 31(2), e2967. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2967
Ruchensky, J. R., Kelley, S. E., Massey, C., Richardson, L. A., Blais, M. A., & Stein, M. B (2024). Using the Personality Assessment Inventory to assess the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Criterion validity in a clinical sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 106, 72-82. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2023.2203240
Russell, T. D., & Ruchensky, J. R. (2023). The alternative model for personality disorders and violence risk: Where are we now? Where are we going? Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 10(4), 236–251. https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000220
Natoli, A. P., Concannon, A. B.*, Murdock, J. G.*, & Ruchensky, J. R. (2023). A severity-matching strategy illustrated using the alternative model for personality disorders in violence risk assessment on college campuses. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 10(4), 262–280. https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000210
Ruchensky, J. R., Bauer, E. A., Edens, J. F., & MacNamara, A. (2023). Triarchic psychopathy and affective picture processing: An event-related potential study. Biological Psychology, 182, 108628.
Concannon, A. B.*, Ruchensky, J. R., Donnellan, M. B., & Edens, J. F. (2023). Development of an inconsistent responding scale for the HEXACO Personality Inventory – Revised. Assessment, 30, 2616-2625. doi: 10.1177/10731911231157620
Stein, M. B., O’Keefe, S., Mace, R., Foley, J. D., White, A. E., Ruchensky, J. R., Curtiss, J., Moran, E., Evans, C., & Beck, S. (2022). Psychology Internship Training Amidst COVID-19: Balancing Training Opportunities, Patient Care, and Risk of Exposure. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 1-11.
Ruchensky, J. R., Dowgwillo, E. A., Kelley, S. E., Massey, C., Slavin-Mulford, J., Richardson, L. A., Blais, M. B., & Stein, M. (2022). Exploring the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders Using SCORS-G Ratings on Thematic Apperception Test Narratives. Journal of Personality Disorders, 36, 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2021_35_535
Ruchensky, J. R., Donnellan, M. B., Hopwood, C. J., Edens, J. F., Skodol, A. E., & Morey, L. C. (2022). A Comparison of Two Five-Factor Model Operationalizations of the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy in a Clinical Sample. Assessment, 29, 1496-1506. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911211006186
Ruchensky, J. R., Balsis, S., Edens, J. F., & Douglas, K. S. (2021). Differences in suicide assessment across race: An application of item response theory to assessing suicidality in a justice-involved sample. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 51, 385-393. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12717
Blais, M. A., Stein, M. B., Sinclair, S. J., & Ruchensky, J. R. (2021). Exploring the SPECTRA: Indices of Psychopathology's (SPECTRA) hierarchical factor structure in a clinical sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 110946.
* indicates a graduate student author
Recent Funding
University of Minnesota Press ($31,700; 2024-2025)
MMPI-3 assessment of contemporary models of psychopathology among sexual minority populations.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Jaime Anderson; Co-PI: Ryan Marek)
Society for Personality Assessment ($5,145; 2024-2025)
The effects of minority stressors on personality pathology and externalizing psychopathology for LGBTQ+ individuals.
Role: Principal Investigator