Charlotte Kinrade
Dr. Charlotte Kinrade is an Assistant Professor of Psychological Science. Her research focuses on personality, subjective logic, and distinguishing between related personality constructs with a particular interest in dark personality constructs such as sadism, psychopathy, and narcissism. She is also interested in the development of personality assessments.
Dr. Kinrade received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Alabama and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in various journals such as Journal of Personality, Personality and Individual Differences, and Psychological Assessment.
Publications:
- Kinrade, C., Hart, W., & Castagna, P. J. (2025). The indirect effects of psychopathy and sadism on functional impairment through executive functioning. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08332-7
- Kinrade, C., Hart, W., & Castagna, P. J. (2025). The lasting effects of bad parenting: Effects of dysfunctional parenting on functional impairment through antisocial personality Psychological Reports. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941251329782
- Kinrade, C., Hart, W., Wahlers, D. E., Hall, B. T., & Lambert, J. T. (2025). The Index of Consensual Sexual Sadism (ICSS): Scale development, validation, measurement invariance, and nomological network comparisons with everyday sadism. Psychological Assessment, 37(4), 148-160. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001365
- Cease, C. K., Hart, W., Lambert, J. T., & Witt, D. E. (2023). Is "sadistic pleasure" a contrived process of signaling one's antagonism? Journal of Personality, 92(3), 837-853. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12827
