Samuel West
Education
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Surgery, VCU Health, 2022.**********
- PhD., Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2021
- M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2017
- B.A., Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2014
Research or Teaching Interests
Dr. West’s research interests revolve around predicting, explaining, and preventing interpersonal aggression and community violence. He is primarily interested in the social, interpersonal, and neurocognitive factors that facilitate and constrain of proactive and retaliatory aggression. Dr. West also studies the assessment antagonistic personality traits (e.g., psychopathy) and the organization of personality traits more broadly. Dr. West directs the Personality and Social Systems(PASS) laboratory (HM 103S), which recruits undergraduate research assistants every semester from within the department. Interested students can apply to work in the PASS lab here: JoinPASSLab
You can find a full list of Dr. West’s publications and other work on his website: Dr.West