2025

Doyle, E., Kay, C. S., & Arrow, H. (2025). Rating heroes, antiheroes, and villains: Machiavellianism, grandiose narcissism, psychopathy and sadism predict admiration for and perceived similarity to morally challenged characters. Psychology of Popular Media, 14(3), 495-501.

Johnson, B. B. & Kay, C. S. (2025). Affect mediates culture’s effects on COVID-19 risk perceptions, behavioral intentions, and policy support among Americans. Health, Risk & Society, 27(1-2), 1-26.

Kay, C. S. (2025). Why you shouldn’t trust data collected on MTurk. Behavior Research Methods, 57, 340.

Kay, C. S., Castillo, A. J., & Condon, D. M. (2025). Investigating the structure of the Short Dark Tetrad: Evidence for a common core, distinct factors, and an oversaturated sadism subscale. Personality and Individual Differences, 247, 113406.

Kay, C. S. & Hart, J. (2025). Measuring conspiracy beliefs among Democrats and Republicans: A test of the measurement invariance of four short-form conspiracist ideation scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 246, 113365.

Kay, C. S. & Slovic, P. (2025). Assessing conspiracist ideation reliably, validly, and efficiently: A psychometric comparison of five short-form measures. Assessment.

Kay, C. S., Weston, S. J., & Condon, D. M. (in press). “To be” or “I am someone who tends to be”: Does the wording of personality items matter? Collabra: Psychology.

Kiran Rao, T.◆ & Kay, C. S. (in press). Ego and academic ethics: A brief investigation into the associations among three facets of narcissism, academic entitlement, and academic dishonesty Personality and Individual Differences.

March, E., Kay, C. S., Dinić, B. M., Wagstaff, D., Grabovac, B., & Jonason, P. K. (2025). “It’s all in your head”: Personality traits and gaslighting tactics in intimate relationships. Journal of Family Violence, 40(2), 259-268.

Tran, M. P. N.◆ & Kay, C. S. (in press). Investigating the association between Hikikomori and internet addiction in a sample of US college students. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research.

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2024

Arrow, H. & Kay, C.S. (2024). The evolution of heroism. In S. T. Allison, J. K. Beggan, & G. R. Goethals (Eds.), Encyclopedia of heroism studies (pp. 558-562). Springer.

Kay, C. S. (2024). Validating the IDRIS and IDRIA: Two infrequency/frequency scales for detecting careless and insufficient effort survey responders. Behavior Research Methods, 56(7), 7790-7813.

Kay, C. S. & Arrow, H. (2024). Eight misconceptions about the elemental approach and aversive personality trait research: A response to Andrews and colleagues (2023). Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(1), e12769.

Kay, C. S. & Dimakis, S. (2024). Moral foundations partially explain the association of Machiavellianism, grandiose narcissism, and psychopathy with homonegativity and transnegativity. Journal of Homosexuality, 71(3), 775-802.

2023

Kay, C. S. & Saucier, G. (2023). Measuring personality traits in context: Four approaches to situations in self-report measures of personality. In P. K. Jonason (Ed.), Shining light on the dark side of personality: Measurement properties and theoretical advances (pp. 261-273). Hogrefe.

Kay, C. S. & Saucier, G. (2023). The Comprehensive Infrequency/Frequency Item Repository (CIFR): An online database of items for detecting careless/insufficient-effort responders in survey data. Personality and Individual Differences, 205, 112073.

Kay, C. S. & Slovic, P. (2023). The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale – 5: A short-form measure of conspiracist ideation. Journal of Research in Personality, 102, 104315.

2022

Kay, C. S. (2022). Animal House: The Dark Tetrad traits and membership in sororities and fraternities. Acta Psychologica, 222, 103473.

Kay, C. S. & Arrow, H. (2022). Taking an elemental approach to the conceptualization and measurement of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(4), e12662.

Valerie van Mulukom [and 12 others, including Kay, C. S.] (2022). Antecedents and consequences of COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: A systematic review. Social Science & Medicine, 301, 114912.

2021

Kay, C. S. (2021). Actors of the most fiendish character: Explaining the associations between the Dark Tetrad traits and conspiracist ideation. Personality and Individual Differences, 171, 110543.

Kay, C. S. (2021). Negative traits, positive assortment: Revisiting the Dark Triad and a preference for similar others. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(4), 1259-1278.

Kay, C. S. (2021). The targets of all treachery: Delusional ideation, paranoia, and the need for uniqueness as mediators between two forms of narcissism and conspiracy beliefs. Journal of Research in Personality, 93, 104128.

2020

Kay, C. S. & Saucier, G. (2020). Deviating from the social consensus: Relations among the Dark Triad, moral normativity, and general social normativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 159, 109889.

Kay, C. S. & Saucier, G. (2020). Insert a joke about lawyers: Evaluating preferences for the Dark Triad traits in six occupations. Personality and Individual Differences, 159, 109863.

Last updated: December 22nd, 2025.