Beth A. Visser is a faculty member in the Psychology and Interdisciplinary Studies departments at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. She is an individual differences psychologist with a particular interest in “dark” or socially aversive personalities. In addition to her interest in personality, she also conducts research on cognitive abilities, self vs. other perceptions of personal attributes, and self-objectification.
Early Life and Educational Background
Visser was born in 1963 in Picton, Ontario, a small Canadian town. Her father worked for the federal government and her mother was a homemaker. Her father’s career necessitated frequently moving the family within Canada, and wherever they went, both parents furthered their educations, taking courses in everything from statistics and computer programming to transcendental meditation and upholstering.
Visser has shown a similar lifelong breadth of interests. After completing an undergraduate degree in psychology at the University...
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Bogaert, A. F., Visser, B. A., & Pozzebon, J. A. (2015). Gender differences in object of desire self-consciousness sexual fantasies. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 2299–2310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0456-2.
Book, A., Visser, B. A., & Volk, A. (2015). Unpacking “evil”: claiming the core of the dark triad. Personality and Individual Differences, 73, 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.09.016.
Lee, K., Ashton, M. C., Pozzebon, J. A., Visser, B. A., Bourdage, J. S., & Ogunfowora, B. (2009). Similarity and assumed similarity of personality reports of well-acquainted persons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96, 460–472. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014059.
Lee, K., Ashton, M. C., Wiltshire, J., Bourdage, J. S., Visser, B. A., & Gallucci, A. (2013). Sex, power, and money: Prediction from the Dark Triad and Honesty-Humility. European Journal of Personality, 27, 145–154. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1860.
Visser, B. A., Ashton, M. C., & Vernon, P. A. (2006). Beyond g: Putting multiple intelligences theory to the test. Intelligence, 34, 487–502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2006.02.004.
Visser, B. A., Ashton, M. C., & Vernon, P. A. (2008). What makes you think you’re so smart? Measured abilities, personality, and sex differences in relation to self-estimates of multiple intelligences. Journal of Individual Differences, 29, 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.29.1.35.
Visser, B. A., Bay, D., Cook, G. L., & Myburgh, J. (2010). Psychopathic and antisocial, but not emotionally intelligent. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 644–648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.003.
Visser, B. A., Ashton, M. C., & Pozzebon, J. A. (2012). Is low anxiety part of the psychopathy construct? Journal of Personality, 80, 725–747. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00745.x.
Visser, B. A., Pozzebon, J. A., & Reina-Tamayo, A. M. (2014). Status-driven risk taking: Another “dark” personality? Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 46, 485–496. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034163.
Visser, B. A., DeBow, V., Pozzebon, J. A., Bogaert, A. F., & Book, A. (2015). Psychopathic sexuality: The thin line between fantasy and reality. Journal of Personality, 83, 376–388. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12110.
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Visser, B.A. (2020). Visser, Beth. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_2156
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