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Research Interests

For the most part, I study behavior from a self-presentation perspective, with a specific focus on: (1) the subjective logic of aberrant behavior; (2) social influence (e.g., norms); and (3) the formation and updating of beliefs (e.g., selecting and processing view-point relevant information).

Recent Publications

Names of graduate students (current or former) are bolded.

Hart, W., Lambert, J.T., & Hall, B. (in press). Are All Narcissistic People More Motivated to Self-Enhance?: A Novel Test of a NARC Model Postulate. Personality and Individual Differences.

Lambert, J.T., Hart, W., Wahlers, D.E., & Wahlers, J. N. (in press). My Mind to Your Mind: Christians Egocentrically Estimate God’s and Satan’s Attitudes. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Lambert, J.T., Kinrade, C.K, Wahlers, D.E., Hall, B., & Hart, W. (in press). Tell me you’re religious without saying you’re religious: An identity-signaling account of prejudice against atheists. Self and Identity.

Wahlers, J. N., Garrison, K.E., & Hart, W. (in press). Measuring subjective mental effort as an aversive and enjoyable phenomenon. Motivation Science.

Kinrade, C. K., Hart, W., & Castagna, P.J. (in press). The lasting effects of bad parenting: Effects of dysfunctional parenting on functional impairment through antisocial personality. Psychological Reports,

Hart, W., Kinrade, C. K., & Wahlers, D.E. (in press). Antagonistic Personality and Moral Insight: Viewing Oneself as Less Moral Yet More Moral Than Others. Personality and Individual Differences.

Hart, W., Hall, B.T., &Castagna, P.J. (in press). Feeling Fine About Being Impaired: Narcissism, Impairment and Wellbeing. Personality and Individual Differences

Hart, W., Marshall, S., Lambert, J. T. Gable, P.G. (in press). When Opportunity Knocks: Vulnerable Narcissism Predicts Neural Correlates of Action Preparation After Ego-Threat. Current Psychology.

Hart, W., Wahlers, D.E., & Castagna, P.J.(in press). Neuroticism and Executive Functioning Deficits: The Moderating Role of Negative Urgency. Psychological Reports

Kinrade, C. K., Hart, W., Wahlers, D.E, Hall, B.T., & Lambert, J. (in press). The Index of Consensual Sexual Sadism (ICSS): Scale development, validation, measurement invariance, and nomological network comparisons with everyday sadism. Psychological Assessment.

Hart, W., Breeden, C.J., Cease, C.K., & Lambert, J. (in press). Reconsidering the ego-syntonicity of personality disorder traits: Seeking consonance between personality disorder traits and behavior. Journal of Individual Differences. 

Hart, W., Wahlers, D.E., Lambert, J.T., Hall, B.T., & Wahlers, J.N. (in press). Reconsidering the Ideological Happiness Gap: Left-wing Authoritarianism, Maladjustment, and Unhappiness. Current Psychology.

Lambert, J.T., Hart, W., Wahlers, D.E., Hall, B.T., Cease, C.K., & Castagna, P. (in press). Testing measurement invariance of the Left-Wing Authoritarianism Index-13 (LWAI-13). European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Hart, W., Lambert, J., Wahlers, D., & Castagna, P.J.  (in press). Resistance is Futile:  Unveiling the Self-Presentational Arsenal of the Left-Wing Authoritarian. Self and Identity.

​Hart, W., Garisson, K.E., Lambert, J., & Hall, B. (in press). Don’t Worry About Being You: Relations Between Perceived Authenticity and Mental Health are Due to Self-esteem and Executive Functioning. Psychological Reports

Hart, W., Wahlers, D., Cease, C., Lambert, J., & Castagna, P.J.  (in press).  “Shining The “Light” on Moral Foundations: Light vs. Dark Personality Relates More Strongly to Moral Foundations. Psychological Reports. 

Hart, W., Wahlers, D., Lambert, J., &Hall, B.  (in press). Psychopathic but Less Criminal: The Buffering Effects of Integrity. Personality ​and Individual Differences. 

Hart, W., Hall, B., Lambert, J., Cease, C., & Wahlers, D.  (in press). Antagonistic but Holier than Thou: Antagonistic People Think They are (Way) Better-Than-Average on Moral Character. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. 

Hart, W., Lambert, J., Cease, C., & Castagna, P.J.  (in press). Antagonistic Personality and Symptoms of Psychological Distress: Feeling Less Bad About Being Impaired. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Wahlers, D., Hart, W., & Lambert, J.  (in press). Judging the Guilt of the Un-guilty: The Roles of “False Positive” Guilt and Empathy in Moral Character Perception. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology.

Castagna, P.J., & Hart, W. (in press). Light triad traits moderate the relationship between the dark tetrad and immoral character. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Wahlers, J., Wahlers, D., Hart, W.,  (in press). Conveying depression: Is a reduced relative happiness preference a way depressed people convince themselves of their depressed identity? Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Cease, C., Hart, W., Lambert, J., Witt, D., & Hall, B.  (in press). To Get Good Data Quality or Study Sadistic People? Are “Inattentive Responders” Actually Sadistic? Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Hall, B., Lambert, J., Wahlers, D., & Hart, W  (in press). Coworkers Behaving Badly: How the Dark Triad Influences Responses to Witnessing Workplace Misconduct. Psychological Reports.

Hart, W., Cease, C., Lambert, J., (in press). Reducing the Chances of Developing Narcissistic Rivalry: The Buffering Effects of Self-Esteem.  Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Hart, W., Cease, C., Lambert, J., Witt, D., & Breeden, C.  (in press). The Capone Hypothesis: Do Antagonistic Individuals View Themselves as More Good than Evil?  Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Hart, W., Cease, C., Lambert, J., & Witt, D.  (in press). Self-Verifying Depression in Retrospect: Reconstructing the Past to Seem More Depressed. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Hart, W., Cease, C., Lambert, J., & Witt, D.  (in press). Integrity and Moral Flexibility: Self-Proclaimed Integrity Relates to Adapting Moral Judgments to Appear Principled. Journal of Individual Differences.

​Hart, W., Cease, C., Lambert, J., & Witt, D., & Hall, B. (in press). Reducing the Chances of Developing Narcissistic Rivalry: The Buffering Effects of Integrity. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Cease, C., Hart, W.,  Lambert, J., & Witt, D.  (in press). “Is “Sadistic Pleasure” a Contrived Process of Signaling One’s Antagonism? Journal of Personality.

Hart, W., Cease, C., Lambert, J., & Witt, D.  (in press). Revisiting the Ego-Syntonic Assumption: Investigating Neuroticism and Harmony with Thoughts of Negative Emotions. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.

Whitt, C., Tullett, A., Bowes, S., McDiarmid, A., Lillienfeld, S., & Hart, W. (in press). Weakening the Ideological Immune System: Can Debiasing Techniques Reduce Confirmation Bias? Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology​.

Hart, W., Kinrade, C., Lambert, J., Breeden, C., & Witt, D.  (in press). A Closer Examination of the Integrity Scale’s Construct Validity. Journal of Personality Assessment. 

Hart, W., Kinrade, C.,  & Lambert, J.  (in press). Sadistic or Less Reactive? Reconsidering the Sadism-Pleasure Link. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Hart, W., Kinrade, C.,  & Lambert, J., Garrison, K.  (in press). Designing One’s Authentic Identity: Self-Proclaimed Authentic People Report Self-Presentation Agendas to Seem Authentic to Audiences. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Hart, W., Kinrade, C.,  & Lambert, J.  (in press). Accepting vs. Distorting Reality: Examining the Role of Dispositional Authenticity. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Kinrade, C., Hart, W.,  & Lambert, J.  (in press). Sadistic Responses to Inciting Nonsexual vs. Sexual Pain: Evidence for Distinctions between Everyday and Sexual Sadism. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Hart, W.,  Lambert, J., & Kinrade, C.  (in press). Investigating Measurement Invariance of the Psychological Entitlement Scale – Grandiose-Based and Vulnerable-Based. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Lambert, J., Hart, W., & Kinrade, C. (in press). Testing a Perceived Uncommitted Mating Strategy Account for Atheist Distrust and Marriage Disapproval. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. 

Hart, W.,  Kinrade, C.,  & Lambert, J.,  (in press). Sadistic Pleasure and Diminished Suffering Perceptions: Further Evidence that Sadism Entails Rationalization. Personality ​and Individual Differences.

Hart, W., Kinrade, C., Lambert, J., & Breeden, C.J (in press). A Self-Presentational Account of Entitlement: Entitlement Relates to Strategically Portraying Entitled Identities. American Journal of Psychology.

Hart, W., Breeden, C.J.,  Kinrade, C.,  & Lambert, J.,  (in press). Antagonism and Narcissism as a Conditional Relationship: The Role of Social-Engagement Traits. Personality ​and Individual Differences.