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  1. Heterogeneity in the structure of aggressive personality.

    Article • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment, April 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Chester

  2. Harming in order to help: An empirical characterization of prosocial aggression.

    Article • Motivation Science, June 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Chester, Gregory Depow

  3. It is past time to abandon the term “dark” as a descriptor of antagonistic traits.

    Article • Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, June 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Chester

  4. Some revenge now or more revenge later? Applying an intertemporal framework to retaliatory aggression.

    Article • Motivation Science, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Chester

  5. What makes a “successful” psychopath? Longitudinal trajectories of offenders’ antisocial behavior and impulse control as a function of psychopathy.

    Article • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment, May 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Chester

  6. The flux, pulse, and spin of aggression-related affect.

    Article • Emotion, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Chester

  7. Sour sleep, sweet revenge? Aggressive pleasure as a potential mechanism underlying poor sleep quality’s link to aggression.

    Article • Emotion, March 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Chester

  8. Sadism and Aggressive Behavior: Inflicting Pain to Feel Pleasure

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, December 2018, SAGE Publications

    David Chester

  9. Validating a Standardized Approach to the Taylor Aggression Paradigm

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    David Chester

  10. Personality correlates of revenge-seeking: Multidimensional links to physical aggression, impulsivity, and aggressive pleasure

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, December 2017, Wiley

    David Chester

  11. The Role of Positive Affect in Aggression

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    David Chester