Faculty and Staff - [ Faculty Bios - Charles L. Spirrison ]

Education

• B.A., North Texas State University, 1981
• M.A., University of Southern Mississippi, 1984
• Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 1987

Honors

• Fellow, Society for Personality Assessment

Service Activities

• Chair, Masters in Psychology Accreditation Council (MPAC)
• Former Member, Executive Board, Council of Applied Masters Programs in Psychology (CAMPP)
• Consulting Psychologist, Louisville Group Homes

Research Interests

• Personality assessment
• Contingency management, adaptive behavior, dementia screening and adults with mental retardation
• Impulse control disorders not otherwise specified

Publications and Presentations

Over 25 peer-reviewed publications. Two of the most recent are:

• Dubose, J. A. & Spirrison, C. L. (in press). Hair pulling in a diverse college sample. North American Journal of Psychology.
• Shirachi, M., & Spirrison, C. L. (2006). Repressive coping style and substance use among college students. North American Journal of Psychology, 8, 99-114.

Over 30 conference presentations. Two of the most recent are:

• Spirrison, C. L., & Brady, H. H. (2006, July). Cards 2, 3BM, 4, and 13 MF of the Thematic Apperception Test: Percept popularity and associations. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece.
• Spirrison, C. L., & Browne, C. M. (2006, July). The Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Reliability, factor structure, and construct validity. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece.

Other

• Licensed Psychologist - State of Mississippi
• Has chaired over 25 successfully defended masters theses on a range of topics, including: The Thematic Apperception Test, five-factor model of personality, adaptive behavior, repressive coping, psychological reactance, and trichotillomania.