Meet your Editors

Sara Rose Masland is an assistant professor of clinical and personality psychology at Pamona College. She studies treatment improvement and accessibility for people with personality disorders, including the ways that mental health stigma may create barriers to care. She also studies individual differences in social cognition and emotion processes and their relevance for personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder (BPD) and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). In an additional line of research, Professor Masland studies psychosocial predictors of poor clinical outcomes for people with a range of psychopathology, including expressed emotion and the perception of criticism in close relationships.

Erica Baranski is an assistant professor at California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California and the director of the Mechanisms of Personality Change (MOPC) Lab. She uses idiographic-nomothetic assessment approaches and longitudinal and multi-level methods to explore situational assessment across countries and mechanisms for personality change across the lifespan. Currently she is exploring the role motivation has on the volitional change process and the ways in which neurodiverse individuals seek to change their personalities. She is also the administrator of the International Situations Project which explores situation experiences, behavior, and individual differences of college students in 65 countries with use of the Riverside Situational Q-sort.