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Overview

David J. Cooke is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia, specializing in research that bridges psychology and medicine. The primary focus of their work lies in psychology with significant contributions to clinical psychology, alongside research intersecting with sociology, political science, surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and oncology.

The scientist's recent publications encompass a range of topics reflecting their multidisciplinary approach. Key recent papers include:

  • Esophageal and Esophagogastric Junction Cancers, Version 2.2023, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (2023), Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • Comparison between the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality in a representative sample of Spanish prison inmates (2020), PLoS ONE
  • Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence: A Scoping Review of the Available Research Evidence (2022), The Prison Journal
  • Factor structure of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality-Self-Report (CAPP-SR) in community and offender samples (2021), Psychological Assessment
  • Evaluating the Test Validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Symptom Rating Sale (CAPP SRS) (2021), Journal of Personality Assessment

Their research contributions frequently cover subjects such as psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending. They have also worked extensively on personality disorders and psychopathology, children's physical and motor development, inclusion and disability in education and sport, physical education and pedagogy, as well as esophageal cancer research and treatment and gastric cancer management and outcomes.

David J. Cooke has been a coauthor with several researchers, notably collaborating on multiple occasions with Thomas A. D'Amico, Lenora A. Pluchino, Munyaradzi G. Nyandoro, Denis Delannoy, and Thierry H. Pham.

Their publications appear in a variety of journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education
  • Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Prison Journal
  • Cureus

Best Publications

  • Refining the construct of psychopathy: towards a hierarchical model.

    David J. Cooke;Christine Michie

  • Is criminal behavior a central component of psychopathy? Conceptual directions for resolving the debate.

    Jennifer L. Skeem;David John Cooke

  • Precision of actuarial risk assessment instruments: evaluating the 'margins of error' of group v. individual predictions of violence.

    Stephen D. Hart;Christine Michie;David John Cooke

  • Reconstructing psychopathy: clarifying the significance of antisocial and socially deviant behavior in the diagnosis of psychopathic personality disorder.

    David J. Cooke;Christine Michie;Stephen D. Hart;Daniel A. Clark

  • Psychopathy : theory, research, and implications for society

    David J. Cooke;Adelle E. Forth

  • Psychopathy and ethnicity: structural, item, and test generalizability of the Psychopathy Checklist--Revised (PCL-R) in Caucasian and African American Participants.

    David J. Cooke;David S. Kosson;Christine Michie

  • An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised

    David J. Cooke;Christine Michie

  • Psychopathy across cultures: North America and Scotland compared.

    David J. Cooke;Christine Michie

  • Evaluating the Screening Version of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL:SV): An item response theory analysis.

    David J. Cooke;Christine Michie;Stephen D. Hart;Robert D. Hare

  • Figuring out la femme fatale: conceptual and assessment issues concerning psychopathy in females.

    Elham Forouzan;David J. Cooke

  • The childhood experiences of psychopaths: a retrospective study of familial and societal factors.

    Lisa A. Marshall;David J. Cooke

  • Explicating the Construct of Psychopathy: Development and Validation of a Conceptual Model, the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP)

    David J. Cooke;Stephen D. Hart;Caroline Logan;Christine Michie

  • Understanding the structure of the Psychopathy Checklist – Revised: An exploration of methodological confusion

    David J. Cooke;Christine Michie;Jennifer Skeem

  • Situational variables and institutional violence: a systematic review of the literature.

    Lisa Gadon;Lorraine Johnstone;David Cooke

  • Life stress and symptoms at the climacterium.

    J G Greene;D J Cooke

  • Limitations of Diagnostic Precision and Predictive Utility in the Individual Case: A Challenge for Forensic Practice

    David J. Cooke;Christine Michie

  • Assessing psychopathy in the UK: concerns about cross-cultural generalisability.

    David John Cooke;Christine Michie;Stephen D. Hart;David Clark

  • One Measure Does Not a Construct Make: Directions toward Reinvigorating Psychopathy Research--Reply to Hare and Neumann (2010).

    Jennifer L. Skeem;David J. Cooke

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy for violent men with antisocial personality disorder in the community: an exploratory randomized controlled trial.

    K. M. Davidson;P. Tyrer;Philip Tata;David Cooke

  • The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP): content validation using prototypical analysis.

    Mette K. F. Kreis;David J. Cooke;Christine Michie;Helge A. Hoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen D. Hart
Stephen D. Hart Simon Fraser University
Martin Sellbom
Martin Sellbom Monash University
Jennifer L. Skeem
Jennifer L. Skeem University of California, Berkeley
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia
Arnstein Mykletun
Arnstein Mykletun Norwegian Institute of Public Health
John L. Taylor
John L. Taylor Northumbria University
Clive R. Hollin
Clive R. Hollin University of Leicester
Mike J. Crawford
Mike J. Crawford Imperial College London
Adelle E. Forth
Adelle E. Forth Carleton University
Peter Tyrer
Peter Tyrer Imperial College London

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