Majeed Khader

Nanyang Technological University | ntu · Division of Psychology

This was a Keynote presentation made to the Asia Pacific Association of Threat Assessment Professionals in May 2023 held in Singapore. i was discussing enhancing diversity & inclusion in threat assessment & management, & why this is such an important consideration for replicability in the sciences & effectiveness in practice.

Though sexual harassment is detrimental to all victims, research has suggested it is taken more seriously when male superiors harass female subordinates. This study investigated the roles of harasser-target gender (male-female, male-male, female-female, or female-male) and organisational power dyad (professor-student or student-professor) on percep...

The advent of technology and liberalisation of societal views on sex have ushered in a new era of dating. Online Mobile Dating Applications (OMDA) have taken over traditional methods of dating by becoming popular avenues used to form romantic and sexual connections. Data gleaned from previous research on OMDA usage revealed various inadvertent repe...

Abstract Sex offenders are often subject to negative perceptions and behaviours from members of the public, which greatly hampers their ability to reintegrate back into society after completing their sentences (Brown et al., 2007; Winnick, 2008). Therefore, this study aims to determine how factors like the type of sex offender, type of victim, and...

Nomothetic terrorist profiling models are too often based on oversimplified and uninformed prejudices, not actual insight into criminal behavior. In fact, we know this problem all too well, which is why racial profiling was on track to be eradicated in the United States only a decade ago. However, racial profiling gained new life with the terrorist...

An increasing trend of scams has been observed in various parts of the world, including Singapore. Adopting an evidence-based approach to support law enforcement crime prevention efforts, this study seeks to identify individual personality and behavioural differences among people who were more susceptible to victimisation. The current paper investi...

This study examined the influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and childhood protective factors on dating aggression experiences in young Singapore adults. In this study, 262 adults reported on their adverse childhood experiences at home, individual resilient factors within the community and the frequency of experiencing dating aggressio...

A surge in the spread of fake news after a terror attack such as the 2018 Surabaya bombings has been observed in recent times. It was clear that the spread of fake news (i.e., information disorder [ID]) can amplify the social impact and consequences of a terror attack on the local community. However, research on the prevalence of ID in connection t...

The prevalence of cyber vigilantism during this COVID‐19 pandemic is an imminent issue that warrants our attention. However, there is a dearth of research regarding cyber vigilantism, especially from a personality perspective. Therefore, the current study aims to address this gap by examining the impact of justice‐related dispositions such as legal...

Understanding the social-psychological processes that characterize communities' reactions to a pandemic is the first step toward formulating risk communications that can lead to better health outcomes. This study examines comments on Facebook pages of five Singapore media outlets to understand what topics are being discussed by the public in reacti...

This study aimed to explore personality and behavioural indicators of workplace deviance, with the intention to develop the Personality Behaviour Workplace Questionnaire (PBWQ). 388 Singaporeans, aged 18-65 years, were recruited via online questionnaire. A cross-sectional research design was employed to analyse the effects of personality and beha...

This workshop discussed the 6 C model of understanding deception. it draws on the workshop leaders 30 years of applying detection of deception techniques in applied law enforcement techniques.

The present study examined the influence of victim resistance and sexual precedence on perceptions of a woman that engaged in a mobile dating application (MDA) facilitated hookup. A 2 x 2 x 2 between-subjects design was adopted, where the presence of verbal and nonverbal resistance and sexual precedence were manipulated to result in eight condition...

With the increase in scams globally and the elusive methods of perpetrators, law enforcement agencies have turned to public education and awareness programs to decrease the number of scam victims. This has also raised a need to look into the psychology of scams and how they can be prevented. Emotional arousal has been shown to hinder cognitive deci...

View the Front Matter and Chapter 1 at the publisher's website: https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/9789811230059_0001

This final chapter discusses two issues. First, what we can expect for the future for cyber forensic psychology, and second, how we should respond.

The first wave of research on personality in law enforcement compared police and “general population” personality norms and examined if there was a personality “type” that was attracted to policing as a career vocation. The second wave of research looked at “successful” and “unsuccessful” police officers, asking if they had different personalities....

The first wave of research on personality in law enforcement compared police and “general population” personality norms and examined if there was a personality “type” that was attracted to policing as a career vocation. The second wave of research looked at “successful” and “unsuccessful” police officers, asking if they had different personalities....

The COVID-19 global pandemic has had a severe impact on nations, causing numerous deaths, severe economic losses, and disruptions in everyday life. One concern is the rising amount of COVID-19 related fake news that has penetrated the digital space, causing confusion and uncertainty during these times. Examining this issue from a psychological and...

This project examined sleep quality with coping, health and psychological resilience and well being of Singapore’s police officers. The association between poor sleep quality, lowered psychological resilience, health, coping and wellbeing was hypothesized. Self reported reports on stress-and-coping in the police work context obtained from a focus g...

Alcohol use has been consistently associated with perceptions of alcohol-related sexual assault. However, limited research has been conducted regarding individuals’ beliefs about alcohol’s role in sexual victimization, particularly among young adults in Singapore. This study aimed to examine the role of respondent alcohol use and beliefs about the...

Existing studies on fake news has focused on different areas of research, such as identifying the actors behind the creation and spread of fake news (Marwick & Lewis, 2017), as well as the psychological vulnerabilities of individuals which contribute to their beliefs in false information (Ecker, Lewandowsky, Fenton, & Martin, 2014). Another emergi...

This concluding chapter is an attempt made to summarise and analyse the chapters provided by the various authors in this book. The analysis used in this chapter is based on a public health prevention model created by Quick, Quick, Nelson, and Hurrell (1997). The value of this approach is the systemic prevention angle that it undertakes to examine p...

The Rotherham child sexual exploitation (CSE) brought to light one of the worst incidences of organised child sexual abuse in the United Kingdom, with estimates of more than 1400 child victims who were sexually exploited between the 1990s and 2013 in Rotherham. This chapter seeks to provide an analysis of the causes and contributors to this prolong...

Rape is typically perpetrated by someone known to the victim rather than a stranger. One form of rape however that is neglected is marital rape. This study examined the relationship between marital rape attitudes and gender, religiosity, gender role attitudes, and sexual double standards. A total of 160 students from Singapore completed online ques...

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Due to time constraints interviews aimed to detect deception in airport settings should be brief and veracity assessments should be made in real time. In two experiments carried out in the departure hall of an international airport, truth tellers were asked to report truthfully their forthcoming trip, whereas liars were asked to lie about the purpo...

Crises have evolved rapidly in recent years; increasingly transboundary and evolving in type and frequency. Effectively leading an organisation through a crisis has become even more paramount in today’s context. Similarly, research on crisis leadership and critical incident management has increased over the past decade. Crisis leadership and critic...

Organizational resilience is a capacity that emerges at multiple levels. Although the multilevel character of organizations has been generally acknowledged in existing organizational studies, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical studies that address how it affects organizational resilience. To adress this gap, this article offers a multilev...

In the past, women in the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were known to serve as homemakers (i.e., wives, mothers). However, in recent times there has been a shift in their roles, as more women are starting to emerge on the front lines as suicide bombers, recruiters, or a part of ISIS's official women police brigade. This article investigate...

The multilevel character of organizations has been generally acknowledged in existing organizational studies. However, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical studies in organizational science that address this specific aspect and how it can affect organizational resilience. In response to this gap, this paper introduces a multilevel framework...

Leaders must appreciate that crisis handling doesnt happen in a vacuum and that cultural and contextual issues matter, for effective crisis management. This presentation draws on the authors 25 years of crisis management experience and the lessons drawn from a cultural angle.

The crises that have happened over the last decade revealed the rapidly changing array of threats that the world is facing. Besides dealing with these acute crises, the world is also faced with slow-burning or creeping crises, such as antibiotic resistance and greying population; these crises take time to develop but have damaging, irreversible eff...

This study will attempt to map a set of personality and psycho-social factors to the social media postings of two groups of individuals who were influenced by propaganda material about or from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The aim of this study is to see if – and how – the social media postings of the individual actor can be used to d...

In an effort to better understand the risk of individuals being radicalised via the internet, this paper re-examines the phenomenon of online radicalisation by focusing on four considerations of interest: individual, online environment, interactions between individual and the online environment, and protective elements. A key premise of the discuss...

Psychology research has provided a unique human-centric approach to examining violent extremism. While much progress has been made in understanding the psychology of violent extremism, there remain many unanswered challenges and unchartered territories of knowledge in the field. There is therefore a need to articulate the nature and direction of cu...

This study seeks to develop a screening guide for jihadi terrorism with the intention of streamlining the huge amounts of raw intelligence into smaller amounts of data for further analysis. On the basis of the authors’ collective experience in dealing with terrorists, and a review of the literature and pre-attack indicators developed by law enforce...

o The current state of violent extremism makes community reporting of suspected radicalisation to violence absolutely essential. However, research has shown that many members of the community, who had witnessed warning signs associated with radicalisation, did not report these signs to the relevant authorities – bystander effect. Thus, this study a...

The work of correctional, emergency, law enforcement and public safety officers often involves having to process information and make split second decisions while under stress. As such, a few studies have attempted to examine how a simple exercise such as controlled/tactical breathing can help to improve officers’ performance. However, not much is...

The detection of deception is an essential yet challenging component of investigative interviewing. Behavioural cues to deception in particular, have long been used in investigative interviewing contexts to determine decisions of suspect veracity and deceit. Nevertheless, deception research amongst non-American or European populations has yet to fu...

Online love scams are not uncommon especially in the present era where individuals are heavily reliant on social networking sites for initiating relationships. Given the paucity of research on online love scams within a Singapore population, this study examines how online textual information, specifically Authority and Religiosity affect one's perc...

Law enforcement agencies worldwide are concerned about cyber sexual grooming (CSG), particularly because of its potential to increasingly become transnational and global. The Internet medium facilitates CSG, where predators can draw children into a façade relationship through systematic grooming, inappropriate sexual advances and manipulation, for...

the importance of digital maturity and digital resilience given the new emerging cyber threats and concerns

This commentary is about the practical aspects of investigative interviewing and intelligence gathering. It discusses the real world applications and challenges of applying theory to field settings in intelligence and investigation work. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Technological advancements in the cyberspace have proven to be a double-edged sword, providing swift accessibility to a wealth of information and the concurrent potential for unethical misuse. In the case of the latter, Cyber Sexual Grooming (CSG) is becoming a growing concern for law enforcements worldwide. The Internet medium facilitates CSG, whe...

There have been several cases worldwide of a phenomenon termed ‘happy slapping’ in the recent years. This paper discusses happy slapping and undertakes an analysis of this new crime trend. The analysis is undertaken using four angles (the ‘CLIP profiling approach’ employed by the Behavioural Sciences Unit, Singapore) using five case studies from di...

Interest in terrorist risk assessment, rehabilitation and de-radicalisation programmes have significantly increased in worldwide, as terrorists are increasingly being released into communities worldwide. There is a need to ensure that terrorists are effectively de-radicalised prior to their release into communities. Research evidence has shown that...

Despite developments in police psychology in North America and Europe, little is known about developments in other parts of the world. Yet, this knowledge will reinforce the development of the field of police psychology internationally and strengthen its scientific theories, practices and programs. This paper therefore traces the development of pol...

Evidence suggests that physiological reactivity to mental and emotional stress may be influenced by personality traits. This study aimed to examine the relationship between, emotionally based personality traits, Neuroticism (N) and Extraversion (E), and cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) during mental arithmetic (MA) and anger recall (AR). Heart rate,...

This study examined the emotion and appraisal correlates of the needs for Competence and Relatedness. Using experience-sampling, fluctuations of competence and relatedness throughout a day's period were found to correspond to fluctuations in emotions and appraisals in ways theoretically consistent with the self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 20...

In light of the lack of studies examining the cognitive components of affective chronometry, this research examined the appraisals associated with emotion habituation, using anger as the emotion of focus. Anger and its appraisals were assessed repeatedly over a day in the participants' naturalistic contexts. The trajectory of decline in anger over...

This study employed Ecological Momentary Assessment to test predictions from appraisal theories of emotion about the relationships between emotions and appraisals, using a sample of police officers from Singapore. Strong support was obtained for the predictions, thus demonstrating ecological validity of appraisal theories while circumventing shortc...

Using Hierarchical Linear Modelling, this study examined individual differences in appraisal styles. Data were collected using Ecological Momentary Assessment from police officers in Singapore who participated while on their work-routines. Average levels of 11 appraisals showed significant individual-difference variability. The Big Five personality...

Although appraisal theories have received strong empirical support, there are methodological concerns about the research, including biased recall, heuristic responding, ethical issues, and weak and unrealistic induction of emotions in laboratories. To provide a more ecologically valid test of appraisal theories, the authors used ecological momentar...

Two studies examined the interrelationships of anger, the experience of stress, perceived social support, and coping strategies along with their relationship to health using structural equation modelling (SEM). Results showed dispositional anger to be composed of two factors, anger experience and anger control. Higher levels of anger experience wer...

This study tested the hypotheses that ambulatory heart rate and blood pressure would be higher for individuals high but not low in hostility when they experienced negative affect or social stress and that this interaction would be stronger for Indians compared with other Singapore ethnic groups. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was done on 108...

This study examines the relationship between perceived social support and personality among police officers from Singapore's three main ethnic groups, Chinese, Indians, and Malays. Perceived social support was measured by the short version of the Social Support Questionnaire [SSQ: Sarason, Sarason, Shearin, & Pierce (1987) and personality was asses...

This research examined hemodynamic processes in cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) as a function of task, ethnicity and trait hostility. One hundred and fourteen male patrol officers from the Singapore Police Force participated in this experimental study. Trait hostility was measured using the interpersonal hostility assessment technique to derive a h...

The demand-control model for coronary heart disease was tested using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Male patrol officers (N = 118) wore ambulatory blood pressure monitors during 1 of their day shifts with readings taken every 30 min. Following each reading, officers completed a questionnaire using a handheld computer. Significant interaction...

The relationship between coping styles and personality was investigated with 243 male police officers from the Singapore Police Force. Coping style was measured using the dispositional version of the COPE, whereas personality was measured by the NEO PI-R. Canonical correlation analysis revealed three significant canonical correlations. Examination...

The effect of mothers' ethnic affiliation on their conceptions of children's intelligence was examined. Seven hundred eight Singaporean mothers of Chinese, Malay, and Indian ethnic origin responded to a 55-item questionnaire. For each item, the respondents indicated, on a 9-point scale, how typical they thought the specified behavior was for an int...