Tiffany Russell

Tiffany Russell

PhD
  • Assistant Professor, Joyce and Aqueil Ahmad Endowed Scholar, Psychology
    • Personality Psychology, Forensic Psychology, LGBTQ+ Mental Health, Substance Misuse, Violence Perpetration. Will review applications for all graduate programs

Contact Info

Office Address

Columbia Hall, Room 2000
501 N Columbia Rd Stop 8380
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8380

Faculty Office:
Columbia Hall, Room 2909
501 N. Columbia Rd, Stop 8380
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8380

Curriculum Vitae

Websites

Biography

DR. RUSSELL WILL REVIEW GRADUATE STUDENT APPLICATIONS DURING THE 2025-2026 ADMISSIONS CYCLE

Dr. Russell graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2013 with a BA in psychology and forensic science. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Dakota in 2019. Her mentor in graduate school was Dr. Alan King. Dr. Russell completed her predoctoral clinical internship training at Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital’s Behavioral Health Partial Program. The Behavioral Health Partial Program treats people with serious mental illnesses utilizing individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psychopharmacological interventions. Dr. Russell completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School & McLean Hospital’s Fernside Signature Recovery Program, which is a residential dual diagnosis treatment facility. At Fernside, she worked with patients suffering from substance misuse, personality, mood, anxiety, and affective disorders. Dr. Russell is a licensed clinical psychologist in North Dakota. She is also a member of UND's Behavioral Health Initiative.  

Broadly, my research program focuses on violence perpetration risk, dimensional models of personality pathology, and LGBTQIA+ mental health. This includes specific lines of research involving: 

  1. Externalizing behaviors, including substance misuse and violence perpetration in forensic and general clinical contexts
  2. Assessment and application of the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD)
  3. Forensic assessment of violence risk
  4. Juror perceptions of clinically relevant testimony
  5. Assessing mental health and treatment outcomes in LGBTQIA+ populations, including intimate partner violence and personality pathology in LGBTQIA+ people

PUBLICATIONS

  1. Pazos, L.A., Cash, D.K., Quinlivan, D.S., & Russell, T.D. (2024, in press). Perceptions of sexual consent: The role of situational factors and participant gender among college students. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. 
  2. Mulay, A. L., Gottfried, E. D., Ruchensky, J. R., Russell, T.D, Natoli, A. P., & Hopwood, C. J. (2024, in press). The problem no one is talking about: Forensic evaluators’ lack of familiarity with dimensional approaches to personality and psychopathology. Journal of Personality Assessment, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2420172
  3. Cash, D.K., Spenard, K.D., Russell, T.D., Pazos, L.A., Trinka, M.E. (2024). Detailing deception: The impact of detail type and amount on perceived statement veracity. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue Canadienne des Sciences du Comportement, Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000433
  4. Pazos, L.A., Cash, D.K., & Russell, T.D. (2024). Yes, no, maybe so: The effect of relationship status on perceptions of inferred consent. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231225515
  5. Cash, D.K., Russell, T.D., Harrison, A.T., & Papesh, M.H. (2024). Evaluating eyewitnesses: Translating expressions of pre- and post-identification confidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4163
  6. 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.
    https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000220
  7. Revels-Strother, O., Russell, T.D., Auen, A.J., Doan, C.M., & King, A.R. (2024). Trait hostility and aggression as a partial function of dispositional mindfulness. Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health, 26(3), 195-203.
    https://doi.org/10.22038/JFMH.2024.78250.3117
  8. King, A.R., Norton-Baker, M., & Russell, T.D. (2023). Manhood honor as a predictor of laboratory-provoked aggression. Current Psychology.
  9. Cash, D.K., Spenard, K.D., & Russell, T.D. (2023). Examining the role of speaker familiarity and statement practice on deception detection. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Online First,
    https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231220843
  10. Cash, D.K., Spenard, K.D., & Russell, T.D. (2023). Knowledge of adult sexual orientation influences perceptions of adult-child interactions. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2023.2271488
  11. Benemann, H., McCartin, H., Russell, T.D., Cash, D.K., & King, A.R. (2023). Sadistic masculinity: Masculine honor ideology mediates sadism and aggression. Personality and Individual Differences, 206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112118
  12. McCartin, H., Benemann, H., Norton-Baker, M., Russell, T.D., Cash, D.K., & King, A.R. (2022). Boys ‘round here: The relationship between masculine honor ideology, aggressive behavior, race, and regional affiliation. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Online First. doi: 10.1177/08862605221120890
  13. Russell, T.D. & Limke-McLean, A. (2023). You can’t pick your family: Parental differential treatment and attachment. Journal of Scientific Psychology, 2, 1-11.
  14. King, A.R., Kuhn, S.K., Strege, C., Russell, T.D., Kolander, T. (2019). Revisiting the link between childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual aggression. Child Abuse and Neglect, 94, doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104022.
  15. King, A.R. & Russell, T.D. (2019). Lifetime Acts of Violence Assessment (LAVA) predictors of laboratory aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 1-12, 1-9. doi: 10.1002/ab.21835
  16. Looby, A, Norton-Baker, M., & Russell, T.D. (2018). Interactive effects of baseline executive functioning and working memory depletion on alcohol use among heavy drinking young adults. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26(4), 341-346. doi: 10.1037/pha0000205.
  17. Matson, K., Russell, T.D., & King, A.R. (2018). Gun enthusiasm, hypermasculinity, manhood honor, and lifetime aggression. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, & Trauma, 1-15, doi: 1080/10926771.2017.1420722.
  18. King, A.R., Ratzak, A. Ballantyne, S., Knutson, S., Russell, T.D., Polgalz, C.R., Breen, C.M. (2018). Differentiating corporal punishment from physical abuse in the prediction of lifetime aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 1-10. doi: 10.1002/ab.21753.
  19. Norton-Baker, M., Russell, T.D., & King, A.R. (2018). “He seemed so normal”: Single tactic perpetrators of sexual violence are similar to non-violent men using the DSM-5's hybrid personality disorder model. Personality and Individual Differences, 123, 241-246, doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.032.
  20. Russell, T.D., Doan, C.M., & King, A.R. (2017). Sexually violent women: The PID-5, everyday sadism, and adversarial sexual attitudes predict female sexual aggression and coercion against male victims. Personality and Individual Differences, 111, 242-249. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.02.019.
  21. Russell, T.D., Pocknell, V., & King, A.R. (2017). Lesbians and bisexual women and men have higher scores on the Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 (PID-5) than heterosexual counterparts. Personality and Individual Differences, 110, 119-124. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.039.
  22. Russell, T.D. & King, A.R. (2017). Distrustful, conventional, entitled, and dysregulated: PID-5 personality facets predict hostile masculinity and sexual violence in community men. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi: 10.1177/0886260517689887.
  23. Russell, T.D. & King, A.R. (2017). Mean girls: PID-5 personality traits and everyday sadism predict hostile femininity. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 252-257. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.08.020.
  24. King, A.R., Breen, C.M., Russell, T.D., Nerpel, B.P., Pogalz, C.R. (2017). Self-reported executive functioning competencies and lifetime aggression. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, doi: 10.1080/23279095.2017.1320555.
  25. King, A.R. & Russell, T.D. (2017). Psychometric properties of the Violent Experiences Questionnaire (VEQ-R). Child Abuse & Neglect, 67, 64-75. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.02.008
  26. King, A.R., Russell, T.D., & Bailly, M.D. (2017). Psychometric properties of the Lifetime Assessment of Violent Acts (LAVA). Violence and Victims, 32(6), 998-1013. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-16-00067
  27. Bradley, A.R. & Russell, T.D. (2017). When a “brief” is too brief. [Review of the book Sexually harmful youth: Successful reintegration to school by Mulligan, C.A., Ayoub, J., & Kostelnik, C.E.]. PsycCRITIQUES, 63(23). doi: 10.1037/a0040893.
  28. Pocknell, V., Ballantyne, S. Ratzak, A. Breen, C.M., Russell, T.D., King, A.R. (2017). Self-reported executive functioning competencies and psychopharmacology use history. Current Psychopharmacology, 6. doi: 10.2174/2211556006666171019143109.
  29. King, A.R., Ballantyne, S., Ratzak, A., Knutson, S., Russell, T.D., Pogalz, C.R., & Breen, C.M. (2017). Sibling hostility and externalized symptoms of psychological distress. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma. doi: 1080/10926771.2017.1382637.
  30. Veith, A., Russell, T.D., & King, A.R. (2017). PID-5 trait mediation of childhood maltreatment effects. Personality and Individual Differences. 104, 58-63. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.024.
  31. Russell, T.D. & King, A.R. (2016). Anxious, hostile, and sadistic: Maternal attachment and everyday sadism predict hostile masculine beliefs and male sexual violence. Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 340-345. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.029.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Russell, T., Johnson, T., Callahan, A., Benemann, H., McCartin, H., Concannon, A., Tayebi, S. & Cash, D. (2024). OCD Comorbidities. In C. Lack (Ed.), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Etiology, Phenomenology, and Treatment (2nd ed.). Fareham, UK; Onus Books.
  2. Russell, T.D., Johnson, T., Callahan, A., Benemann, H., McCartin, H., Concannon, A., Tayebi, S., Cash, D., y Melisa Sagarnaga (2024). Comorbilidades del TOC. In C. Lack (Ed.), Trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo: Etiología, fenomenología, y tratamiento. Fareham, UK; Onus Books.
  3. Addo-Yobo, A., Russell, T.D., & Cash, D.K. (2023). Rape and coercion: Avoidant attachment. In T. Shackelford (Ed.) Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_1962-1
  4. Pazos, L. Cash, D.K., & Russell, T.D. (2023). Rape and coercion: Fighting back. In T. Shackelford (Ed.) Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_1967-1
  5. Pazos, L. Cash, D.K., & Russell, T.D. (2023). Male Rape Myths. In T. Shackelford (Ed.). Springer Nature Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. Springer, Cham.
  6. Russell, T.D., Holdren, S., & Ronningstam, E. (2022). Narcissistic personality disorder and deviant behavior. In Garofalo, C. & Sijtsema, J. (Eds.), Clinical Forensic Psychology: Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment. New York, NY: Springer Nature.
  7. Ronningstam, E. & Russell, T.D. (2020). Beyond nucleus diagnostic conceptualizations: Commentary on narcissistic and histrionic personality disorders (pp. 296-299). In Lejuez, C.W. & Gratz, K.L. (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Disorders (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108333931.051
  8. King, A.R., Auen, A.J., & Russell, T.D. (2019). Childhood maltreatment and adult dispositional mindfulness (pp. 55-74). In S. Aideen Xu (Ed.) Violence Exposure: Perspectives, Gender Differences, and Outcomes. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
  9. Russell, T.D. (2018). Hostile masculinity. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds). Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1827-1.
  10. King, A., Russell, T.D., Veith, A. (2016). Friendship and mental health functioning. In Hojjat, M. & Moyer, A. (Eds.), Psychology of Friendship. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190222024.003.0015.
  11. Russell, T.D., Veith, A., King, A.R. (2015). Childhood maltreatment predictors of trait impulsivity. In A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychological Research (Volume 103). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 

2013: University of Central Oklahoma, BA, Psychology and Forensic Science

2016: University of North Dakota, MA, Clinical Psychology

2018: Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, Predoctoral Internship

2019: University of North Dakota, PhD, Clinical Psychology

2020: Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, Fernside. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Substance Abuse and Addiction

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