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..

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.

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.