Blair Batky

Summary

Blair Batky will join the University of Nevada, Reno in Fall 2025. She will be recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2026.

Dr. Batky earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with a concentration in Clinical Child Psychology, at the University of Alabama. She then completed her predoctoral internship at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center and postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Youth Mental Health.

Dr. Batky’s research broadly focuses on improving the assessment and treatment of adolescent externalizing problems (e.g., aggression, rule-breaking) through better understanding externalizing problem development. As emotional experiences are strongly implicated in severe externalizing behavior, Dr. Batky’s work examines how traits associated with emotional deficits (psychopathic/callous-unemotional traits) and emotion regulation difficulties contribute to externalizing problems. Her research also emphasizes using multiple methods (e.g., EEG, behavioral task performance) to assess adolescent externalizing behavior and psychopathic traits.

Research interests

• Externalizing behavior
  
• Psychopathic traits
• Psychometrics and measure development
  
• Transdiagnostic mechanisms of disorder co-occurrence
  
• Emotion dysregulation
  
• Caregiver perceptions of adolescent personality
• EEG and psychophysiological measurement

Education

• Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, University of Alabama, 2023
• M.A. in Clinical Psychology, University of Alabama, 2019
• B.A. in Psychology, Northwestern University, 2017

Selected publications

• Batky, B.D., Mendez, B., Bontemps, A., Salekin, R.T. (2024)
  Psychopathy measurement practices moderate psychopathy's association with anxiety and depression: A comprehensive meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 111, 102448.
• Bellamy, N. A., Neumann, C. S., Mendez, B., Batky, B. D., DeGroot, H. R., Hare, R. D., &
  Salekin, R. T. (2024). Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD): Further validation of the parent-report version in a nationally representative US sample of 10-to 17-year-olds. Psychological Assessment, 36(3), 175.
• Salekin, R. T., López‐Romero, L., Grant, J. C., Batky, B. D., Uzieblo, K., & Colins, O. F.
  (2024). Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) self‐report: Factor structure and validation in a community sample of Belgian youth. Personality and Mental Health, 18(1), 4-18.
• Batky, B. D., Shields, A. N., Salekin, R. T., & Tackett, J. L. (2023). Moderators of the
  relationship between callous-unemotional traits and externalizing problems in youth. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 15(1), 22–33.
• Mendez, B., Batky, B. D., & Salekin, R. T. (2023). What is the best source of information for
  psychopathic traits in youth? A review and meta-analysis of self-and other-reported psychopathic traits and their association with negative outcomes. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 26(3), 805-823.
• Salekin, R.T., Charles, N.E., Barry, C.T., Hare, R.D., Batky, B.D., Mendez, B., & Neumann,
  C.S. (2022). The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) scale: Factor structure and psychometric properties in a residential school facility. Psychological Assessment, 34 (10), 985–992.
• Colins, O.F., Bisback, A., Recule, C., Batky, B.D., Lopez-Romero, L., Hare, R.D., & Salekin,
  R.T. (2022). The Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) scale: Factor structure and validation of the self-report version in a forensic sample of Belgian youth. Assessment.
• Bontemps, A.P., Batky, B.D., Houser, R.A., & Salekin, R.T. (2022). Psychopathic traits,
  conduct problems, and the examination of self-referential processing using EEG in incarcerated adolescents. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.
• Batky, B.D., Salekin, R.T., & Houser, R.A. (2020). Frontal alpha asymmetry and emotional
  processing in youth with psychopathic traits. Psychophysiology, 57 (12).
• Sokolowski, K. M., Batky, B. D., Anderson, J. L., Glenn, A. L., & Salekin, R. T. (2020). The
  personality assessment inventory-antisocial features (psychopathy) scale: Model fit and convergent and discriminant validity. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 42, 203-221.