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Peer-reviewed work from the lab and its collaborators. Filter by role or by research area, sort by date or citation count; counts are from Google Scholar.

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Understanding and assessing personality across cultures: A scoping review

A scoping review of whether personality can be validly assessed across cultures.

Sheppard H, Bizumic B, Christensen B, Monaghan C · 2026

PI first/senior Open access DOI

Bridging the implementation gap in dimensional personality models

A commentary on translating dimensional personality models into usable clinical workflows.

Monaghan C · 2025

Cited by 0 PI first/senior DOI

Dimensional models of personality disorders: Challenges and opportunities

A review of dimensional models of personality disorders — their evidence, challenges, and clinical promise.

Monaghan C, Bizumic B · 2023

Cited by 49 PI first/senior Open access DOI

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Assessing unstated assumptions of patient and public involvement in palliative care with story completion and typology analysis

Wang Z , Chapman M , Monaghan C , Lu VN , O'Connor J , Calvert S , Happell B , Mitchell I , Scholz B

BMC Palliative Care · 2026

Story-completion analysis surfacing the unstated assumptions behind public involvement in palliative care.

Cited by 0 Collaboration DOI
Clarifying the relationship between intuitive eating, mindful eating, and maladaptive eating: A factor analytic study

Bell E , Rieger E , Murray K , Monaghan C

Journal of Health Psychology · 2026

A factor-analytic study disentangling intuitive, mindful, and maladaptive eating and their links to wellbeing.

Cited by 0 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Two-Dimensional Machiavellianism: Shortening the Scale and Expanding the Nomological Network to Political Psychology

Monaghan C , Bizumic B , Phillis N

Journal of Personality Assessment · 2026

A shortened two-dimensional Machiavellianism scale, extended into political psychology.

PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Understanding and assessing personality across cultures: A scoping review

Sheppard H , Bizumic B , Christensen B , Monaghan C

PLOS ONE · 2026

A scoping review of whether personality can be validly assessed across cultures.

Hannah Sheppard

Mentee-led PI first/senior Collaboration Open access DOI
Bridging the implementation gap in dimensional personality models

Monaghan C

BJPsych Advances · 2025

A commentary on translating dimensional personality models into usable clinical workflows.

Cited by 0 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Expanding our understanding of eating disorders through a wellbeing lens

Scutt K , Rieger E , Ali K , Monaghan C

International Journal of Wellbeing · 2025

Viewing eating disorders through a wellbeing lens alongside indicators of positive mental health.

PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Strategic Intolerance: Investigating the Intersection of Ethnocentrism, Ethnic Prejudice, and Machiavellianism

Monaghan C , et al.

Advances in Prejudice Research Volume 1: New Empirical and Theoretical Directions in Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination · 2025

Proposing a Machiavellianism–ethnocentrism–prejudice model of strategically motivated intolerance.

Cited by 0 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
The Expression Regulation Scale (ERS): Validation of Three Emotion Domains for Expressive Norms with Close and Distant Others in Private and Public Situations

Monaghan C , Shou Y , Mewton P , Quayle A , Dawel A

Assessment · 2025

Developing and validating the Expression Regulation Scale across three domains of emotional expression.

Cited by 2 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
The function of love: A signaling-to-alternatives account of the commitment device hypothesis

Gelbart B , Walter KV , Conroy-Beam D , et al. , Monaghan C , Bizumic B

Evolution and Human Behavior · 2025

A cross-cultural test of whether romantic love functions by signalling commitment away from alternatives.

Cited by 2 Collaboration DOI
Authoritarian Personality

Bizumic B , Monaghan C

Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior · 2024

An encyclopedia entry defining the authoritarian personality — aggression, submission, and conventionalism.

PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries

Groyecka-Bernard A , Sorokowski P , Karwowski M , Monaghan C , Sorokowska A , et al.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology · 2024

A 28-country test confirming that conservatism modestly but consistently predicts lower creativity.

Cited by 3 Collaboration DOI
COVID-19 and Social Distancing: A Cross-Cultural Study of Interpersonal Distance Preferences and Touch Behaviors Before and During the Pandemic

Croy I , Heller C , Akello G , Anjum A , Atama C , Avsec A , Bizumic B , Borges Rodrigues R , Boussena M , Butovskaya M , Can S , Cetinkaya H , Contreras-Garduño J , Costa Lopes R , Czub M , Demuthova S , Dronova D , Dural S , Eya OI , Sorokowska A , Monaghan C , et al.

Cross-Cultural Research · 2024

How the pandemic reshaped interpersonal distance and touch, compared before and during COVID-19 across cultures.

Cited by 8 Collaboration DOI
COVID-19 infection associated with poorer mental health in a representative population sample

Batterham PJ , Dawel A , Shou Y , Gulliver A , Cherbuin N , Calear AL , Farrer LM , Monaghan C

Journal of Psychosomatic Research · 2024

COVID-19 infection was not directly linked to poorer mental health in a representative Australian sample.

Cited by 2 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Personality Disorders

Bizumic B , Monaghan C

Encyclopedia of Religious Psychology and Behavior · 2024

An encyclopedia overview of personality disorders and their dimensional reconceptualisation.

PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
The Brief Solastalgia Scale: A Psychometric Evaluation and Revision

Christensen BK , Monaghan C , Stanley SK , Walker I , Leviston Z , Macleod E , Rodney RM , Greenwood L , Heffernan T , Evans O , Sutherland S , Reynolds J , Calear AL , Kurz T , Lane J

EcoHealth · 2024

Psychometric evaluation and revision of the Brief Solastalgia Scale across three large samples.

Cited by 15 Collaboration DOI
The Role of Diagnostic Models in Prejudice Toward People with Borderline Personality Disorder: An Experimental Investigation

Monaghan C , et al.

Journal of Personality Disorders · 2024

An experiment testing whether a dimensional (AMPD) framing reduces prejudice toward people with BPD.

Cited by 3 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
A three-dimensional model of emotional display rules: Model invariance, external validity, and gender differences

Dawel A , Ashhurst C , Monaghan C

Emotion · 2023

Validating a three-dimensional model of emotional display rules, with external validity and gender differences.

Cited by 10 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
An investigation of the dual continua model of mental health in the context of eating disorder symptomatology using latent profile analysis

Scutt K , Ali K , Rieger E , Monaghan C , Ford R , Fabry E , Fassnacht D

British Journal of Clinical Psychology · 2023

Latent-profile evidence for the dual continua model of mental health in eating-disorder symptoms.

Cited by 8 Collaboration DOI
Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset)

Terry J , Ross RM , Nagy T , Monaghan C , Field AP , et al.

Journal of Open Psychology Data · 2023

An open dataset on statistics and mathematics anxiety from 12,570 students worldwide.

Cited by 14 Collaboration DOI
Dimensional models of personality disorders: Challenges and opportunities

Monaghan C , Bizumic B

Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2023

A review of dimensional models of personality disorders — their evidence, challenges, and clinical promise.

Cited by 49 PI first/senior Collaboration Open access DOI
Do emotion intensity, variability, differentiation, co-occurrence, and positive–negative ratios make unique contributions to predicting longitudinal change in psychological distress and well-being?

Dawel A , Gulliver A , Farrer LM , Kalokerinos EK , Cherbuin N , Calear AL , McCallum S , Morse AR , Monaghan C

Emotion · 2023

Testing whether distinct properties of everyday emotion each uniquely predict distress and wellbeing over time.

Cited by 7 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Estimating statistical power for ERP studies using the auditory N1, Tb, and P2 components

Hall L , Dawel A , Greenwood LM , Monaghan C , Berryman K , Jack BN

Psychophysiology · 2023

Monte Carlo estimates of the statistical power available for auditory N1, Tb, and P2 ERP studies.

Cited by 8 Collaboration DOI
Item Response Theory Approach to Ethnocentrism

Monaghan C , Bizumic B

Frontiers in Political Science · 2023

An item response theory analysis putting the Ethnocentrism Scale on rigorous psychometric footing.

Cited by 2 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Love and affectionate touch toward romantic partners all over the world

Sorokowska A , Kowal M , Saluja S , Monaghan C , Croy I , et al.

Scientific Reports · 2023

Across 37 countries, love is universally linked to more affectionate touch with romantic partners.

Cited by 20 Collaboration DOI
Modernization, collectivism, and gender equality predict love experiences in 45 countries

Sorokowski P , Kowal M , Sternberg RJ , Monaghan C , et al.

Scientific Reports · 2023

How modernization, collectivism, and gender equality shape love experiences across 45 countries.

Cited by 36 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Solastalgia mediates between bushfire impact and mental health outcomes: A study of Australia’s 2019–2020 bushfire season

Leviston Z , Stanley SK , Rodney RM , Monaghan C , Vardoulakis S , et al.

Journal of Environmental Psychology · 2023

Solastalgia mediates the link between bushfire impact and mental health after the 2019–2020 fires.

Cited by 22 Collaboration DOI
Development of a Scale to Examine Responses to Bodily Sensations

Roche-Freedman KE , Brown RF , Monaghan C , Thorsteinsson E , Brown J

Psychological Reports · 2022

Developing the Bodily Sensations Response Scale, capturing Defeat and Acceptance response styles.

Cited by 0 Mentee-led Collaboration DOI
Measuring social processes regarding eating, physical activity, and weight in higher-weight people: The weight-related interactions Scale (WRIS)

Rieger E , Lee YF , Monaghan C , Zwickert K , Murray K

Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity · 2022

Developing the Weight-Related Interactions Scale for how higher-weight people experience others' input.

Cited by 6 Collaboration DOI
The Two-Dimensional Machiavellianism Scale: Measuring Machiavellian Views and Tactics

Monaghan C , Bizumic B

Shining light on the dark side of personality: Measurement properties and theoretical advances · 2022

A detailed account of the Two-Dimensional Machiavellianism Scale, its properties, and interpretation.

PI first/senior Collaboration
Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Sorokowska A , Saluja S , Sorokowski P , Monaghan C , et al.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 2021

Affective interpersonal touch in close relationships across 45 countries.

Cited by 109 Collaboration DOI
Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios

Walter KV , Conroy-Beam D , Buss DM , Monaghan C , et al.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · 2021

Sex differences in mate preferences vary with a population's sex ratio.

Cited by 35 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
The Return of Ethnocentrism

Bizumic B , Monaghan C , Priest D

Political Psychology · 2021

Revisiting ethnocentrism's history and its revival as a rigorously measured psychological construct.

Cited by 44 Collaboration DOI
The Unified Narcissism Scale: Moving Towards an Integrated Measure of Narcissism

Sivanathan D , Bizumic B , Monaghan C

Personality Science · 2021

Introducing the Unified Narcissism Scale to integrate grandiose and vulnerable narcissism.

Cited by 1 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Universality of the triangular theory of love: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the triangular love scale in 25 countries

Sorokowski P , Sorokowska A , Karwowski M , Monaghan C , et al.

The Journal of Sex Research · 2021

Testing Sternberg's triangular theory of love and its scale across 25 countries.

Cited by 78 Collaboration DOI
An analysis of public attitudes in Australia towards applications of biotechnology to humans: Kinds, causes, and effects

Monaghan C , Bizumic B , Van Rooy D

Technology in Society · 2020

The structure and psychological predictors of Australian attitudes toward human biotechnology.

Cited by 5 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Reasons for Facebook Usage: Data From 46 Countries

Kowal M , Sorokowski P , Sorokowska A , Monaghan C , Zupančič M , et al.

Frontiers in Psychology · 2020

Mapping the many distinct motivations behind Facebook use across 46 countries.

Cited by 30 Collaboration DOI
Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication

Walter K V , Conroy-Beam D , Buss D M , Monaghan C , et al.

Psychological Science · 2020

A 45-country, large-scale replication of classic sex differences in mate preferences.

Cited by 269 Collaboration DOI
The HEXACO model: Clinical extensions and universality

Bizumic B , Monaghan C

European Journal of Personality · 2020

A commentary arguing the HEXACO model — especially Honesty-Humility — deserves fuller clinical application.

Cited by 6 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Two-Dimensional Machiavellianism: Conceptualization, Theory, and Measurement of the Views and Tactics Dimensions

Monaghan C , Bizumic B , Williams T , Sellbom M

Psychological Assessment · 2020

The theory and validation of the two-dimensional Machiavellianism model and its 12-item scale.

Cited by 77 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Assortative mating and the evolution of desirability covariation

Conroy-Beam D , Roney JR , Lukaszewski AW , Monaghan C , Zupančič M , et al.

Evolution and Human Behavior · 2019

Simulations showing assortative mating on mate value can generate the covariation of desirable traits.

Cited by 49 Collaboration DOI
Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries

Conroy-Beam D , Buss D M , Asao K , Monaghan C , et al.

Scientific Reports · 2019

Comparing computational models of how people integrate their mate preferences across 45 countries.

Cited by 41 Collaboration Open access DOI
Nomological network of two-dimensional Machiavellianism

Monaghan C , Bizumic B , Sellbom M

Personality and Individual Differences · 2018

Mapping the nomological network of two-dimensional Machiavellianism across 17,000+ participants.

Cited by 44 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Performance in small student groups: Group personality, identity, and norms

Monaghan C , Bizumic B

Self and Social Identity in Educational Contexts · 2017

How group personality, identity, and norms jointly shape the performance of small student groups.

PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
The role of Machiavellian views and tactics in psychopathology

Monaghan C , Bizumic B , Sellbom M

Personality and Individual Differences · 2016

Machiavellianism's link to psychopathology is best captured by separating cynical views from manipulative tactics.

Cited by 88 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI
Performance of student software development teams: the influence of personality and identifying as team members

Monaghan C , Bizumic B , Reynolds K , Smithson M , Johns-Boast L , Van Rooy D

European Journal of Engineering Education · 2015

Team-average personality and identifying as a team both predict student software teams' performance.

Cited by 22 PI first/senior Collaboration DOI