Cortney Simmons
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Mail code: 1253Campus: West
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Cortney Simmons is an assistant professor of psychology at the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics and the director of the Risk to Resilience (R2R) Lab. She received her doctorate in psychological science from the University of California, Irvine, and completed three years of postdoctoral training at Yale University. At the broadest level, her research aims to better understand the factors that lead to and protect against the development of antisocial behavior (e.g., aggression, violence, criminal offending) and psychopathology (e.g., psychopathic or callous-unemotional traits, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder). More specifically, she studies the developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior and psychopathology, while also characterizing the underlying cognitive-affective processes and the contribution of exposure to negative environments and experiences. She is also interested in the developmental consequences of legal system involvement and advocates for science-based policies and treatments for youth caught in the legal system.
- Ph.D. Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine
- M.A. Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
- B.A. Psychology, Kinesiology, Rice University
*Estrada, S., *Simmons, C., & Baskin-Sommers, A. (2023). Trajectories of psychopathy and community violence exposure differentially predict antisociality in justice-involved youth. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-022-00989-z
Simmons. C., Mitchell-Adams, H., & Baskin-Sommers, A. (2022). Environmental predictors of within-person changes in callous-unemotional traits among justice-Involved male adolescents. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2022.2093207
Casey, B.J., Simmons, C. Somerville, L.H., & Baskin-Sommers, A. (2022). Making the sentencing case: Psychological and neuroscientific evidence for expanding the age of youthful offenders. Annual Review of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-030920-113250
*Baskin-Sommers, A., *Simmons, C., Conley, M.I., Chang, S., Collins, M., Estrada, S., Pelham, W., Beckford, E., Berrian, N., Mitchell-Adams, H., Barch, D., Tapert, S., Gee, D.G., & Casey, B.J., (2021). Adolescent civic engagement: Lessons from Black Lives Matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109860118
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PSY 599 | Thesis |
| PSY 593 | Applied Project |
| PSY 211 | The Criminal Mind |
| PSY 211 | The Criminal Mind |
| PSY 546 | Advanced Forensic Psychology |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| PSY 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| PSY 592 | Research |
| PSY 593 | Applied Project |
| PSY 599 | Thesis |
| PSY 211 | The Criminal Mind |
| PSY 399 | Supervised Research |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| PSY 211 | The Criminal Mind |
| PSY 211 | The Criminal Mind |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| PSY 211 | The Criminal Mind |
| PSY 211 | The Criminal Mind |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PSY 474 | Correctional Psychology |
| PSY 474 | Correctional Psychology |