Introduction
Ashton C. Southard is a special lecturer at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She is a social-personality psychologist who conducts research concerning dark personality features and self-esteem.
Early Life and Educational Background
Southard was born on August 8, 1986, in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and grew up in the rural area of Wilkes County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from Appalachian State University in 2008, her M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Western Carolina University in 2010, and her Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2014 under the supervision of Dr. Virgil Zeigler-Hill. Although Southard earned her Ph.D. from Southern Mississippi, she spent the majority of her time in the program at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, in order to continue training under Zeigler-Hill when he moved to Oakland in the fall of 2011 to start a graduate program...
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Malkin, M. L., Zeigler-Hill, V., Barry, C. T., & Southard, A. C. (2013). The view from the looking glass: How are narcissistic individuals perceived by others? Journal of Personality, 81, 1–15.
Southard, A. C., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2016). The Dark Triad traits and fame interest: Do dark personalities desire stardom? Current Psychology, 35, 255–267.
Southard, A. C., Morgan, H., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2014). The influence of culturally authentic children’s books on the self-esteem of elementary school students. International Review of Social Psychology, 27, 227–238.
Southard, A. C., Noser, A. E., Pollock, N. C., Mercer, S. H., & Zeigler-Hill, V. (2015). The interpersonal nature of dark personality features. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 34, 555–586.
Zeigler-Hill, V., Besser, A., Myers, E. M., Southard, A. C., & Malkin, M. L. (2013). The status-signaling property of self-esteem: The role of self-reported self-esteem and perceived self-esteem in personality judgments. Journal of Personality, 81, 209–220.
Zeigler-Hill, V., Southard, A. C., & Besser, A. (2014). Resource control strategies and personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 66, 118–123.
Zeigler-Hill, V., Holden, C. J., Enjaian, B., Southard, A. C., Besser, A., Li, H., & Zhang, Q. (2015). Self-esteem instability and personality: The connections between feelings of self-worth and the big five dimensions of personality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 183–198.
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Southard, A. (2016). Southard, Ashton. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2154-1
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