Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology

Research

• Individual differences approaches to antisocial and criminal behaviour.
• Evolutionary substrates to human display.
• Sexual offending.

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Personality and beliefs study: 

Want to go to a conference?
The University of Leicester Forensic Psychology Annual Conference 2010
"New Ways of Gathering Information From Witness and Suspects"

Older papers.

Papers from 2005 to 2007 

Recent Publications

• (also see http://le.academia.edu/VincentEgan/Papers )

• Charles, K.E., Egan, V.  (2008).  Sensational and extreme interests in adolescents.  In R.N. Koksis (Ed.) The Psychology of Serial and Violent Crimes and their Criminal Investigation.  The Humana Press. Lts, 63 – 83.

• Egan, V., Hamilton, E.  (2008).  Personality, mating effort and alcohol-related violence expectancies.  Addiction Research and Theory, 16, 369 – 381. 

•  Mitchell, I.J., Rutherford, V., Wrinch, K.A.J., Egan, V.  (2008).  Paradoxical effects of acute alcohol intoxication in a convivial social setting on attitudes to violence.  Addiction Research and Therapy, 16, 503 - 513.

• Egan, V.  (2009). The ‘Big Five’: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness as an organisational scheme for thinking about aggression and violence.  In: McMurran, M., Howard, R. (Editors), “Personality, Personality Disorder, and risk of Violence: An Evidence-based Approach”, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK, pp. 63 – 84. 

• Egan, V., Cordan, G,.  (2009).  Barely legal: perceptions of attraction and age as a function of make-up, sex, age of participant and alcohol use.  British Journal of Psychology, 100, 415 – 427

•  Charles, K.E., Egan, V.  (2009).  Military interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: evidence from a large normal British sample.  Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 235 – 240.

• Egan, V, Campbell, V.  (2009).  Sensational interests, sustaining fantasies and personality predict physical aggression.  Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 464 - 469.

  Gordon, V. Egan, V.  What self-report impulsivity measure best predicts criminal convictions and prison breaches of discipline?  Psychology, Crime and the Law, (in press).

   Haggar-Johnstone, G.,  Egan, V..  Sadistic personality disorder and sensational interests.  Journal of Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry (in press).
  
  Egan, V.  Personality theories and offending. In Brown, J., (editor).  Cambridge Dictionary of Forensic Psychology.  Cambridge University Press (in press).
  
  Henry, O., Mandeville-Norden, R., Hayes, E., Egan, V.  Do Internet Sexual Offenders reduce to normal, inadequate and deviant groups?  Journal of Sexual Aggression (submitted).

 Conference Presentations

• Sex offenders, personality and obsessionality.  DFP Annual Conference, Coventry, March 2005.
• Sensational interests symposium, Human Behaviour and Evolution society, Austin, Texas, June 2005.
• Personality Disorder workshop – Personality Disorder Masterclass, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Trust, October, 2005.
• SIQ things: sensational interests and offending.  Scottish Medico-Legal Society, December 2005.
• Raising the science quotient of offender profiling.  Fingerprint Society, Tulliallan Police College, March 2006.
• Sensational interests and risk.  Liverpool University, October 2006.
• Psychopathy and fraud.  International Money laundering Society, London, February 2007
• Personality and personality disorders.  The UK 16PF Users Group, London, April 2007
• Managing serious offenders in the Community.  Risk Management Authority, Glasgow, June 2007
• Sensational interests and delinquency – symposium.  International Society for the study of Individual Differences, Giessen, Germany, July 2007
• Alcohol use does not impair male age-estimation of female faces.  10th Conference of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO).  Cape Town, South Africa, August 2008.
• Mating effort and crime.  Darwin Day event, University of Birmingham, UK, February 2009.

• The main predictors of violence; low A, low A and low A.  ISSID conference, Evanston, Illinois, July 2009.