Dr. Julie Blais
Associate Professor
Email: julie.blais@dal.ca
Fax: 902-494-6585
Mailing Address:
全国探花, Life Sciences Centre, 6287 Alumni Crescent, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- Gender based violence
- Legal decision making
- Technology-facilitated sexual violence
- Psychopathy
- Personality
Education
BA/MA/PhD (Carleton University)
Post-doctoral fellowship (Brock University)
Research Interests
The Forensic Psychology and Personality (FPP) Lab conducts research on several key topics: 1) understanding and preventing gender-based violence in post-secondary institutions; 2) assessing factors that impact legal decision making (e.g., risk assessment and communication; racial bias; public attitudes; etc.); identifying risk factors for the perpetration of technology-facilitated sexual violence; and 4) examining personality correlates to both prosocial and antisocial behaviour.
Selected Publications
- Aelick, C., & Blais, J. (2026). Factors influencing support for parole in Canada: Beliefs about crime and people who commit crime are more important than demographics. Psychology, Crime, and Law. Advance online publication.
- Aelick, C., Blais, J., & Babchishin, K. M. (2026). Addressing racial bias in parole decisions: A pre-registered study of the Five-Level Risk and Needs System of risk communication. Psychology, Crime & Law, 32(1), 28鈥�48.
- Blais, J., & Bolduc, D. (2026). Effect of rape myth acceptance and empathy priming on juror decisions in a mock sexual assault trial. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 44, 425 鈥� 436.
- McArthur, J., Goruk, K. J., Blais, J., Dodge, A., & Dunn S. (2025). 鈥淚鈥檓 Not Really Sure of What Exists Here鈥�: Frontline Perspectives on Services for Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication.
- McArthur, J., Blais, J., & Goruk, K. J. (2025). Sexual violence in the digital era: Exploring correlates of non-consensual intimate image dissemination from a sexual offending framework. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 54, 1957 鈥� 1969.
- Blais, J., Fazaa, G. R., & Mungall, L. R. (2025). A pre-registered examination of the relationship between psychopathy, boredom-proneness, and university-level cheating. Psychological Reports, 128(4), 2401 鈥� 2419. Open access.
- Blais, J., McArthur, J., & Goruk, K. J. (2024). An examination of technology-facilitated sexual violence perpetration in Canada among a large sample of adults. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. Advance online publication.