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Perceptions of female narcissism in intimate partner violence: A thematic analysis (2019)
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 navel phenomenon was explored through the lens of ex-partners' perceptions... Read More about Perceptions of female narcissism in intimate partner violence: A thematic analysis.

Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-esteem Regulation (2019)
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. Common triggers evoking narcissistic rage, and differences in narcissistic inju... Read More about Voicing the Victims of Narcissistic Partners: A Qualitative Analysis of Responses to Narcissistic Injury and Self-esteem Regulation.

Sensational Interests (2017)
Book Chapter
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2017). Sensational Interests. In R. J. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence (1-8). (2nd). Springer. 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 measurement and how they came to be associated with criminal behavior. New research... Read More about Sensational Interests.

How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Li Chung, K., Charles, K., Neill, C., & Willis, A. (2016, July). How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability. Poster presented at 18th European Conference on Personality, Timișoara, Romania

The Dark Triad (DT) – Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy – is associated with grandiosity, insensitivity, and exploitation. Some people are found to be more sensitive to verbal and non-verbal language, making them skilled at judging others... Read More about How evil people choose their victims: The Dark Triad and perceptions of personality traits and vulnerability.

Giving the benefit of the doubt: the role of vulnerability in the perception of Dark Triad behaviours. (2016)
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 exploitation. Despite this, people with such traits can be very successful in life, es... Read More about Giving the benefit of the doubt: the role of vulnerability in the perception of Dark Triad behaviours..

Feederism (2015)
Book
Charles, K., & Palkowski, M. (2015). Feederism. Springer Nature. doi:10.1057/9781137470461

Sexualised weight gain, also known as feederism, has become the subject of documentaries, films, and media coverage over the last 15 years. A growing internet community and online presence has brought this fetish to mainstream attention and it has be... Read More about Feederism.

Mirror mirror on the ward, who’s the most narcissistic of them all? Pathologic personality traits in health care (2015)
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 expressed by individuals working in different health care specialties in com... Read More about Mirror mirror on the ward, who’s the most narcissistic of them all? Pathologic personality traits in health care.

Investigating the Influence of Causal Attributions on Both the Worksheet and Checklist Versions of the HCR-20 (2014)
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 external causal explanations. The current research investigated the effect... Read More about Investigating the Influence of Causal Attributions on Both the Worksheet and Checklist Versions of the HCR-20.

The relative influence of leading questions and negative feedback on response change on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2): implications for forensic interviewing (2012)
Journal Article
Baxter, J., Charles, K. E., Martin, M., & McGroarty, A. (2012). The relative influence of leading questions and negative feedback on response change on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2): implications for forensic interviewing. Psychology, Crime and Law, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2011.631538

The ‘Shift’ or response change measure of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (GSS 1 and 2) is assumed primarily to indicate acceptance of the negative feedback component of the GSS procedure. Using an adapted version of the question set that bears... Read More about The relative influence of leading questions and negative feedback on response change on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (2): implications for forensic interviewing.

Sensational Interests (2011)
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 measurement and how they came to be associated with criminal behavior. New rese... Read More about Sensational Interests.

Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality. (2011)
Journal Article
Murray, J., Thomson, M. E., Cooke, D. J., & Charles, K. E. (2011). Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 16, 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1348/135532510X490183

Purpose: The present research aimed to investigate the effects of attribution on expert clinical judgment in comparison to semi-experts and lay-people. Two research questions were addressed. Firstly, would experts be less subject to attributional m... Read More about Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality..

Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations (2011)
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-experts, and lay-people. It was hypothesized that the semi-experts would r... Read More about Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations.

Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample (2009)
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 of offending. We examined such interests and offending in a large sample o... Read More about Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample.

Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity (2005)
Journal Article
Egan, V., Figueredo, A. J., Wolf, P., McBride, K., Sefcek, J., Vasquez, G., & Charles, K. (2005). Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity. Journal of Individual Differences, 26(1), 11-19. https://doi.org/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 features of higher Extraversion, lower Psychoticism, and lower Neuroticism in 1,... Read More about Sensational Interests, Mating Effort, and Personality: Evidence for Cross-Cultural Validity.

Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample (2004)
Journal Article
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2005). Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 38(5), 1035-1045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2004.06.021

Previous research on males, undergraduates and delinquents has shown that high mating effort is significantly correlated with delinquency, promiscuity and coercive sexual behaviour. Mating effort is defined in terms of the r/K trade-off with parental... Read More about Mating effort correlates with self-reported delinquency in a normal adolescent sample.