Dr. Julie Blais

Education

BA/MA/PhD (Carleton University)
Post-doctoral fellowship (Brock University)

Research Interests

Dr. Blais’ research can be divided into three interrelated areas: 1) examining risk assessment and risk communication in the Criminal Justice System, 2) understanding the role of psychopathy within risk assessments, and 3) examining personality correlates to both prosocial and antisocial behaviour more broadly.

Selected Publications

• Knack, N., Blais, J., Baglole, S., & Stevenson, A. (2021, forthcoming). Susceptibility of the Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (SRP 4) to response distortion and the utility of including validity indices to detect deception. Psychological Assessment. 
• Blais, J., Chen, P. G., & Pruysers, S. (2021, forthcoming). Who complies and who defies? Personality and public health compliance. Frontiers in Political Science.
• Knack, N., Blais, J., & Federoff, J. P. (2021). Exploring inconsistencies in the interpretation of Canada’s section 161 order for sexual offending. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 63(1), 52-88.https://doi.org/10.3138/cjccj.2020-0042
• Lee, S., Hanson, R. K., & Blais, J. (2020). Predictive accuracy of the Static-99R and Static-2002R risk tools for identifying Indigenous and White individuals at high risk for sexual recidivism in Canada. Canadian Psychology, 61(1), 42-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cap0000182
• Blais, J., Pruysers, S., & Chen, P. (2019). Why do they run? Assessing the incremental validity of socio-demographic variables, general personality, and the Dark Triad in predicting political ambition. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 52(4), 761-779. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423918001075
• Lee, S., Hanson, R. K., & Blais, J. (2020). Predictive accuracy of the Static-99R and Static-2002R risk tools for identifying Indigenous and White individuals at high risk for sexual recidivism in Canada. Canadian Psychology, 61(1), 42-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cap0000182
• Blais, J., Pruysers, S., & Chen, P. (2019). Why do they run? Assessing the incremental validity of socio-demographic variables, general personality, and the Dark Triad in predicting political ambition. Canadian Journal of Political Science. Advance online publication. doi:10.1017/S0008423918001075
• Ritchie, M. B., Blais, J., Forth, A. E., & Book, A. S. (2018). Identifying vulnerability: The role of psychopathy and gender. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 8(2), 125-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-06-2017-0029
• Blais, J., Forth, A. E., & Hare, R. D. (2017). Examining the interrater reliability of the Psychopathy Checklist across a large sample of trained raters. Psychological Assessment, 29, 762-775.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0000455