Julie Blais
Biographic Data
| ID | 4198852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Blais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Blais |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7386-9549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Confirming the Factor Structure, Concurrent Validity, and Testing the Measurement Invariance Across Gender and Sexual Orientation for the Process-Based Consent Scale
The Process-Based Consent Scale (PBCS) was developed to reflect contemporary consent attitudes and practices, with three subscales (Ongoing Consent, Subtle Coercion, and Communicative Sexuality) emerging through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. However, its measurement invariance across key sociocultural groups has not been evaluated, limiting confidence in group-based comparisons. This study confirmed the PBCS’s bi-factor structure,…
Factors influencing support for parole in Canada
The use of conditional release, such as parole, is a controversial topic influenced by public perceptions. However, statistics regarding support for parole among the Canadian public are out of date and research identifying factors influencing support for parole in Canada is lacking. The current study examined factors affecting support for parole using a large sample of adults living in Canada (N = 2,550). Overall, participants reported a relative…
Effect of Rape Myth Acceptance and Empathy Priming on Juror Decisions in a Mock Sexual Assault Trial
The purpose of the current study was to examine the impact of rape myth acceptance (RMA), as measured by a relatively new ‘subtle’ RMA scale, and an experimental empathy manipulation on juror verdicts in a mock sexual assault trial. A sample of 260 Canadian citizens/permanent residents were recruited through Qualtrics, where they were randomly assigned to read a fictional sexual assault trial transcript that either contained an empathy inducing s…
A Longitudinal Mediation Study of Sexting Motivations and Outcomes in Sexual Minority and Sexual Majority Emerging Adults
0.01), this protective effect did not extend to gender and sexual minorities. Therefore, sexting may carry different implications for gender and sexual minority youth compared to their majority peers, highlighting the need for tailored intervention strategies that account for these distinct experiences
Explaining Unique and Common Variance in Financially Focused Self‐Concept From Dark Triad and Honesty‐Humility Personality Traits Using Commonality Analyses
We investigated the personality correlates of financially focused self-concept, a construct describing individuals who overemphasise financial success as central to their self-definition and self-worth. We examined the unique and shared associations between financially focused self-concept and the Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism) as well as Honesty-Humility at the facet level to provide greater specificity than tra…
Do strategic voters have a strategic personality? Examining the role of machiavellianism in strategic voting
Where Should We Intervene, 20 Years Later? Case–Control and Prospective Cohort Designs Provide Similar Answers
In 2000, this journal published an influential case–control study identifying dynamic risk factors for sexual recidivism (Hanson & Harris, 2000). In 2017, updated recidivism information for the same sample was obtained with an average follow-up of 20 years. The current study compared the risk factors that differentiated between sexual recidivists and nonrecidivists between the two research designs: original case–control and updated prospective co…
A Pre-Registered Examination of the Relationship Between Personality, Stress, and Academic Cheating in the Age of Online Learning
The shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic provided university students with many more opportunities for academic cheating. Using survey data from 530 Canadian undergraduate students collected during the winter semester of 2021, we examined the relationships between stress due to COVID-19, attitudes, personality traits (i.e., HEXACO, psychopathy, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, Machiavellianism), demographic variables, and eng…
Sexting for the Right Reasons
Sexual Violence in the Digital Era
Dark Triad Traits and Cyberbullying Perpetration
Online and Unkind
Many forms of online political incivility threaten democratic norms, contribute to polarization, and are often directed at women and racial minorities. Recent research shows that online political incivility may come from a minority of users that are just as hostile offline as they are online, meaning that individual differences in personality traits may be an important predictor of online political incivility. Drawing upon a large sample of adult…
Fear of Crime and Anti-Refugee Sentiments
Many states have witnessed growing xenophobia and hostility towards refugees alongside the framing of refugees as a serious security or criminal threat in public discourse. Making use of an original cross-national survey of adults in Canada, this article explores the link between fear of crime and negative views of refugees. Its results reveal that even after controlling for alternative explanations, people with more fear of crime are significant…
A Pre-Registered Examination of the Relationship Between Psychopathy, Boredom-Proneness, and University-Level Cheating
Academic cheating is a prevalent problem in all educational institutions. Finding solutions for cheating requires an understanding of who is more likely to engage in these behaviors. In this pre-registered study (including an a priori power analysis), we investigated the relationship between the four facets of psychopathy, boredom-proneness, and academic cheating in undergraduate university students ( N = 161) while controlling for demographic fa…
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs
Restorative justice is an alternative approach to traditional legal system programming that focuses on repairing harm and enhancing client accountability. Despite the proliferation of restorative justice programs, research suggests that their effectiveness depends on various factors such as program type and methodological quality of the studies. The goal of this study was to synthesize the research on the effects of restorative justice in reducin…
Fair-Weather Voters
While numerous explanations for vote-switching have been proposed (e.g. declining rates of partisanship, ideological shifts, partisan ambivalence, change in policy preferences), far less work has examined the personality profile of people more likely to engage in this behaviour. In Study 1, we examined the relationship between both general (i.e. openness, conscientiousness) and antagonistic (i.e. psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism) persona…
Who Complies and Who Defies? Personality and Public Health Compliance
During the first wave of the pandemic, governments introduced public health measures in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus enough to “flatten the curve”. These measures required behavioral changes among ordinary individuals for the collective good of many. We explore how personality might explain who complies with social distancing measures and who defies these directives. We also examine whether providing people with information about th…
The Dark Side of Politics
Personality traits are one piece in the larger puzzle of political participation, but most studies focus on the Five-Factor Model of personality. We argue that the normative implications of the influence of personality on politics are increased when the personality traits being studied correlate with negative social behaviors. We investigate the role of the Dark Triad on political participation as mediated through political beliefs such as intere…
Mediated ambition? Gender, news and the desire to seek elected office
A gender gap in nascent political ambition is among the best documented in political behaviour. Although the reasons for this gender gap are numerous, it has often been speculated that the media might be partly responsible for suppressing ambition among women. Considerable evidence shows that women in politics are generally subject to more attention being paid to their appearance, marital status and sex than their male counterparts. Does this kin…
Why Do They Run? The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Ambition
What drives individuals toward a career in politics? Prior research on political ambition has often focused on socio-demographic variables while generally ignoring the importance of individual personality differences. Yet personality consistently predicts political knowledge, interest and participation, suggesting that individual differences may matter in addition to resources and the social environment. To this end, we assess the impact of both …
Narcissistic Women and Cash-Strapped Men
This paper not only considers whether encouragement can be an effective tool for increasing political ambition, but it also asks whether the source of that encouragement matters. That is, are some sources of encouragement more credible and effective than others? In addition, it explores the profiles of those individuals who are most likely to be receptive to recruitment, accounting for factors such as age, gender, income, education, political int…
A Little Encouragement Goes a (not so) Long Way
Although there is a significant gender gap in political ambition, the literature has shown that women are responsive to encouragement to run for office. As a result, both political parties and other organizations have adopted online campaigns to encourage women to seek political candidacy. The purpose of this study is to explore whether forms of online and impersonal encouragement can result in higher levels of political ambition among recipients…
Why Won't Lola Run? An Experiment Examining Stereotype Threat and Political Ambition
Among the most well-documented and long-standing gender gaps in political behavior are those relating to political ambition, as men have consistently been shown to express a significantly higher level of political ambition than women. Although this gap is well established, the reasons for the differences between men and women remain largely unknown. One possible explanation is that negative stereotypes about women's political ability are responsi…
A theoretically informed meta-analysis of the risk for general and violent recidivism for mentally disordered offenders
Anything women can do men can do better
Negative stereotypes have been shown to create cognitive burdens that decrease intellectual performance in a number of tasks such as math and standardized tests. Applying a multidisciplinary approach and an experimental research design, this paper examines the effect of stereotype threat on political knowledge and political efficacy. A sample of 226 undergraduate students completed an online survey on political knowledge and efficacy. Participant…
Why Won't Lola Run? An Experiment Examining Stereotype Threat and Political Ambition
Among the most well-documented and long-standing gender gaps in political behavior are those relating to political ambition, as men have consistently been shown to express a significantly higher level of political ambition than women. Although this gap is well established, the reasons for the differences between men and women remain largely unknown. One possible explanation is that negative stereotypes about women's political ability are responsi…
Narcissistic Women and Cash-Strapped Men
This paper not only considers whether encouragement can be an effective tool for increasing political ambition, but it also asks whether the source of that encouragement matters. That is, are some sources of encouragement more credible and effective than others? In addition, it explores the profiles of those individuals who are most likely to be receptive to recruitment, accounting for factors such as age, gender, income, education, political int…
Why Do They Run? The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Ambition
What drives individuals toward a career in politics? Prior research on political ambition has often focused on socio-demographic variables while generally ignoring the importance of individual personality differences. Yet personality consistently predicts political knowledge, interest and participation, suggesting that individual differences may matter in addition to resources and the social environment. To this end, we assess the impact of both …
Adolescents Online
The Dark Side of Politics
Personality traits are one piece in the larger puzzle of political participation, but most studies focus on the Five-Factor Model of personality. We argue that the normative implications of the influence of personality on politics are increased when the personality traits being studied correlate with negative social behaviors. We investigate the role of the Dark Triad on political participation as mediated through political beliefs such as intere…
Anything women can do men can do better
Negative stereotypes have been shown to create cognitive burdens that decrease intellectual performance in a number of tasks such as math and standardized tests. Applying a multidisciplinary approach and an experimental research design, this paper examines the effect of stereotype threat on political knowledge and political efficacy. A sample of 226 undergraduate students completed an online survey on political knowledge and efficacy. Participant…
A Little Encouragement Goes a (not so) Long Way
Although there is a significant gender gap in political ambition, the literature has shown that women are responsive to encouragement to run for office. As a result, both political parties and other organizations have adopted online campaigns to encourage women to seek political candidacy. The purpose of this study is to explore whether forms of online and impersonal encouragement can result in higher levels of political ambition among recipients…
Mediated ambition? Gender, news and the desire to seek elected office
A gender gap in nascent political ambition is among the best documented in political behaviour. Although the reasons for this gender gap are numerous, it has often been speculated that the media might be partly responsible for suppressing ambition among women. Considerable evidence shows that women in politics are generally subject to more attention being paid to their appearance, marital status and sex than their male counterparts. Does this kin…
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs
Restorative justice is an alternative approach to traditional legal system programming that focuses on repairing harm and enhancing client accountability. Despite the proliferation of restorative justice programs, research suggests that their effectiveness depends on various factors such as program type and methodological quality of the studies. The goal of this study was to synthesize the research on the effects of restorative justice in reducin…
Online and Unkind
Many forms of online political incivility threaten democratic norms, contribute to polarization, and are often directed at women and racial minorities. Recent research shows that online political incivility may come from a minority of users that are just as hostile offline as they are online, meaning that individual differences in personality traits may be an important predictor of online political incivility. Drawing upon a large sample of adult…
Fair-Weather Voters
While numerous explanations for vote-switching have been proposed (e.g. declining rates of partisanship, ideological shifts, partisan ambivalence, change in policy preferences), far less work has examined the personality profile of people more likely to engage in this behaviour. In Study 1, we examined the relationship between both general (i.e. openness, conscientiousness) and antagonistic (i.e. psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism) persona…
Who Complies and Who Defies? Personality and Public Health Compliance
During the first wave of the pandemic, governments introduced public health measures in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus enough to “flatten the curve”. These measures required behavioral changes among ordinary individuals for the collective good of many. We explore how personality might explain who complies with social distancing measures and who defies these directives. We also examine whether providing people with information about th…
Adolescents Online
A theoretically informed meta-analysis of the risk for general and violent recidivism for mentally disordered offenders
Anything women can do men can do better
Negative stereotypes have been shown to create cognitive burdens that decrease intellectual performance in a number of tasks such as math and standardized tests. Applying a multidisciplinary approach and an experimental research design, this paper examines the effect of stereotype threat on political knowledge and political efficacy. A sample of 226 undergraduate students completed an online survey on political knowledge and efficacy. Participant…
Why Won't Lola Run? An Experiment Examining Stereotype Threat and Political Ambition
Among the most well-documented and long-standing gender gaps in political behavior are those relating to political ambition, as men have consistently been shown to express a significantly higher level of political ambition than women. Although this gap is well established, the reasons for the differences between men and women remain largely unknown. One possible explanation is that negative stereotypes about women's political ability are responsi…
Narcissistic Women and Cash-Strapped Men
This paper not only considers whether encouragement can be an effective tool for increasing political ambition, but it also asks whether the source of that encouragement matters. That is, are some sources of encouragement more credible and effective than others? In addition, it explores the profiles of those individuals who are most likely to be receptive to recruitment, accounting for factors such as age, gender, income, education, political int…
A Little Encouragement Goes a (not so) Long Way
Although there is a significant gender gap in political ambition, the literature has shown that women are responsive to encouragement to run for office. As a result, both political parties and other organizations have adopted online campaigns to encourage women to seek political candidacy. The purpose of this study is to explore whether forms of online and impersonal encouragement can result in higher levels of political ambition among recipients…
Mediated ambition? Gender, news and the desire to seek elected office
A gender gap in nascent political ambition is among the best documented in political behaviour. Although the reasons for this gender gap are numerous, it has often been speculated that the media might be partly responsible for suppressing ambition among women. Considerable evidence shows that women in politics are generally subject to more attention being paid to their appearance, marital status and sex than their male counterparts. Does this kin…
Why Do They Run? The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Ambition
What drives individuals toward a career in politics? Prior research on political ambition has often focused on socio-demographic variables while generally ignoring the importance of individual personality differences. Yet personality consistently predicts political knowledge, interest and participation, suggesting that individual differences may matter in addition to resources and the social environment. To this end, we assess the impact of both …
Who Complies and Who Defies? Personality and Public Health Compliance
During the first wave of the pandemic, governments introduced public health measures in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus enough to “flatten the curve”. These measures required behavioral changes among ordinary individuals for the collective good of many. We explore how personality might explain who complies with social distancing measures and who defies these directives. We also examine whether providing people with information about th…
The Dark Side of Politics
Personality traits are one piece in the larger puzzle of political participation, but most studies focus on the Five-Factor Model of personality. We argue that the normative implications of the influence of personality on politics are increased when the personality traits being studied correlate with negative social behaviors. We investigate the role of the Dark Triad on political participation as mediated through political beliefs such as intere…
A Pre-Registered Examination of the Relationship Between Psychopathy, Boredom-Proneness, and University-Level Cheating
Academic cheating is a prevalent problem in all educational institutions. Finding solutions for cheating requires an understanding of who is more likely to engage in these behaviors. In this pre-registered study (including an a priori power analysis), we investigated the relationship between the four facets of psychopathy, boredom-proneness, and academic cheating in undergraduate university students ( N = 161) while controlling for demographic fa…
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs
Restorative justice is an alternative approach to traditional legal system programming that focuses on repairing harm and enhancing client accountability. Despite the proliferation of restorative justice programs, research suggests that their effectiveness depends on various factors such as program type and methodological quality of the studies. The goal of this study was to synthesize the research on the effects of restorative justice in reducin…
Fair-Weather Voters
While numerous explanations for vote-switching have been proposed (e.g. declining rates of partisanship, ideological shifts, partisan ambivalence, change in policy preferences), far less work has examined the personality profile of people more likely to engage in this behaviour. In Study 1, we examined the relationship between both general (i.e. openness, conscientiousness) and antagonistic (i.e. psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism) persona…
Online and Unkind
Many forms of online political incivility threaten democratic norms, contribute to polarization, and are often directed at women and racial minorities. Recent research shows that online political incivility may come from a minority of users that are just as hostile offline as they are online, meaning that individual differences in personality traits may be an important predictor of online political incivility. Drawing upon a large sample of adult…
Fear of Crime and Anti-Refugee Sentiments
Many states have witnessed growing xenophobia and hostility towards refugees alongside the framing of refugees as a serious security or criminal threat in public discourse. Making use of an original cross-national survey of adults in Canada, this article explores the link between fear of crime and negative views of refugees. Its results reveal that even after controlling for alternative explanations, people with more fear of crime are significant…
Where Should We Intervene, 20 Years Later? Case–Control and Prospective Cohort Designs Provide Similar Answers
In 2000, this journal published an influential case–control study identifying dynamic risk factors for sexual recidivism (Hanson & Harris, 2000). In 2017, updated recidivism information for the same sample was obtained with an average follow-up of 20 years. The current study compared the risk factors that differentiated between sexual recidivists and nonrecidivists between the two research designs: original case–control and updated prospective co…
A Pre-Registered Examination of the Relationship Between Personality, Stress, and Academic Cheating in the Age of Online Learning
The shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic provided university students with many more opportunities for academic cheating. Using survey data from 530 Canadian undergraduate students collected during the winter semester of 2021, we examined the relationships between stress due to COVID-19, attitudes, personality traits (i.e., HEXACO, psychopathy, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, Machiavellianism), demographic variables, and eng…
Sexting for the Right Reasons
Sexual Violence in the Digital Era
Dark Triad Traits and Cyberbullying Perpetration
Confirming the Factor Structure, Concurrent Validity, and Testing the Measurement Invariance Across Gender and Sexual Orientation for the Process-Based Consent Scale
The Process-Based Consent Scale (PBCS) was developed to reflect contemporary consent attitudes and practices, with three subscales (Ongoing Consent, Subtle Coercion, and Communicative Sexuality) emerging through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. However, its measurement invariance across key sociocultural groups has not been evaluated, limiting confidence in group-based comparisons. This study confirmed the PBCS’s bi-factor structure,…
Factors influencing support for parole in Canada
The use of conditional release, such as parole, is a controversial topic influenced by public perceptions. However, statistics regarding support for parole among the Canadian public are out of date and research identifying factors influencing support for parole in Canada is lacking. The current study examined factors affecting support for parole using a large sample of adults living in Canada (N = 2,550). Overall, participants reported a relative…
Effect of Rape Myth Acceptance and Empathy Priming on Juror Decisions in a Mock Sexual Assault Trial
The purpose of the current study was to examine the impact of rape myth acceptance (RMA), as measured by a relatively new ‘subtle’ RMA scale, and an experimental empathy manipulation on juror verdicts in a mock sexual assault trial. A sample of 260 Canadian citizens/permanent residents were recruited through Qualtrics, where they were randomly assigned to read a fictional sexual assault trial transcript that either contained an empathy inducing s…
A Longitudinal Mediation Study of Sexting Motivations and Outcomes in Sexual Minority and Sexual Majority Emerging Adults
0.01), this protective effect did not extend to gender and sexual minorities. Therefore, sexting may carry different implications for gender and sexual minority youth compared to their majority peers, highlighting the need for tailored intervention strategies that account for these distinct experiences
Explaining Unique and Common Variance in Financially Focused Self‐Concept From Dark Triad and Honesty‐Humility Personality Traits Using Commonality Analyses
We investigated the personality correlates of financially focused self-concept, a construct describing individuals who overemphasise financial success as central to their self-definition and self-worth. We examined the unique and shared associations between financially focused self-concept and the Dark Triad traits (Machiavellianism, psychopathy and narcissism) as well as Honesty-Humility at the facet level to provide greater specificity than tra…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Personality (9 works) · Personality Traits and Psychology (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Big Five personality traits (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works)