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Mirror mirror on the ward, who’s the most narcissistic of them all? Pathologic personality traits in health care

Journal Article
Bucknall, V., Burwaiss, S., MacDonald, D., Charles, K., & Clement, R. (2015)
Mirror mirror on the ward, who’s the most narcissistic of them all? Pathologic personality traits in health care. Canadian Medical Association journal, 187(18), 1359-1363. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151135
Background: Stereotypes in medicine have become exaggerated for the purpose of workplace amusement. Our objective was to assess the levels of “dark triad” personality traits e...

Giving the benefit of the doubt: the role of vulnerability in the perception of Dark Triad behaviours.

Journal Article
Chung, K. L., & Charles, K. (2016)
Giving the benefit of the doubt: the role of vulnerability in the perception of Dark Triad behaviours. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 208-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.05.059
The 'Dark Triad' of socially aversive personality traits (Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy) is typically associated with grandiosity, callousness, and exploitatio...

Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample

Journal Article
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2009)
Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(4), 235-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.005
Anecdote and samples from extreme populations suggest military interests and ‘esoteric’ or Gothic interests (collectively referred to as sensational interests) are a predictor...

Sensational Interests

Book Chapter
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2017)
Sensational Interests. In R. J. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence, 1-8. (2nd). BMC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5
This essay examines the current status of sensational interests and their relationship with offending in adolescence. The essay describes sensational interests, their measurem...

Investigating the Influence of Causal Attributions on Both the Worksheet and Checklist Versions of the HCR-20

Journal Article
Murray, J., Charles, K. E., Cooke, D. J., & Thomson, M. E. (2014)
Investigating the Influence of Causal Attributions on Both the Worksheet and Checklist Versions of the HCR-20. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 13(1), 8-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2014.890978
Attribution theories suggest that when assessing an individual's actions, judgments are made about the cause of these behaviours and often these judgments focus on internal or...

Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations

Journal Article
Murray, J., Thomson, M. E., Cooke, D. J., & Charles, K. E. (2013)
Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 18(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02021.x
Purpose. The present research investigated the relationship between underlying justice and vengeance motivations and sentencing recommendations made by expert clinicians, semi...

Sensational Interests

Book Chapter
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2011)
Sensational Interests. In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence, 2601-2606. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_379
This essay examines the current status of sensational interests and their relationship with offending in adolescence. The essay describes sensational interests, their measurem...

Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-esteem Regulation

Journal Article
Green, A., & Charles, K. (2019)
Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-esteem Regulation. SAGE Open, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019846693
Addressing an under-researched aspect of narcissism, this study investigated subclinical ‘grandiose’ and ‘vulnerable’ narcissism within the context of domestic violence. Comm...

Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity

Journal Article
Egan, V., Figueredo, A. J., Wolf, P., McBride, K., Sefcek, J., Vasquez, G., & Charles, K. (2004)
Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity. Journal of Individual Differences, 26(1), 11-19. doi:10.1027/1614-0001.26.1.11
We assessed whether violent or macabre interests ("sensational interests") were related to mating effort and a higher-order personality construct reflecting the combined featu...

Perceptions of female narcissism in intimate partner violence: A thematic analysis

Journal Article
Green, A., Charles, K., & Maclean, R. (2019)
Perceptions of female narcissism in intimate partner violence: A thematic analysis. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 13-27
This study sought to explicitly investigate manifestations off ema/,e narcissism and their attempts at self-regulation in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). This ...

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