Christopher Barlett, Ph.D.
Contact Information
Office: BH 468
E-mail: cpb6666@ksu.edu
Dr. Barlett is accepting graduate students for the Fall 2025 academic year
Research Interests
Dr. Barlett's primary research interest focuses on the prediction and reduction of aggressive and violent behavior (broadly defined). His work has examined the many personality (e.g., dispositional fear of retaliation, trait aggression) and situational factors (e.g., heat, provocations, ego depletion) that can individually and interactively predict aggression. Recently, Dr. Barlett has focused his research endeavors at understanding the predictors of cyberbullying, validating his own cyberbullying theory (the BGCM), and developing a unique cyberbullying- focused intervention.
Graduate Student Involvement
Dr. Barlett supervises several graduate students who are accepted in the Social-Personality graduate program. Dr. Barlett's graduate students will be expected to work with Dr. Barlett on projects related to his area of expertise, but also explore independent ideas that fall within Dr. Barlett's area of expertise. These independent projects should reflect the graduate student's own research agenda, which will allow each student to carve their own path toward their own independent research program. These experiences will allow for graduate students to learn to conduct theoretically novel and independent research while gaining the theoretical, methodological, and statistical tools necessary to become a world-class scholar. Interested graduate student applicants may contact Dr. Barlett by email (cpb6666@ksu.edu) to inquire about applying to the Social-Personality graduate program at K-State.
Undergraduate Student Involvement
Dr. Barlett supervises many undergraduate students in his research lab each semester. Students are often tasked with designing research projects, creating stimuli, collecting data, data analysis, and presenting findings. Further, Dr. Barlett regularly presents data at local, regional, national, and international conferences with undergraduate students and has a record of allowing for undergraduate student authorship for published papers (after satisfying a set of agreed upon parameters). Interested undergraduates should email cpb6666@ksu.edu for more information about opportunities in his lab.
Representative Publications
Barlett, C. P. (in press). Testing the direct and indirect effects of media violence and cyberbullying perpetration: A brief report. Psychology of Popular Media.
Doty, J., Barlett, C. P., Gabrielli, J., Yourell, J., Yi-Wen, Y., & Waasdorp, T. (in press). A model of cyberbullying perpetration among adolescents: Examining proximal processes.Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Barlett, C. P. (in press). Social learning of cyberbullying perpetration: The interactive role of parent and peer cyberbullying reinforcement in a sample of US adolescents: A brief report.Technology, Mind, and Behavior.
Barlett, C. P. (in press). Cyberbullying process in US youth adolescents and their parents: Testing and Extending the Barlett Gentile Cyberbullying Model. Aggressive Behavior. DOI: 10.1002/ab.22117
Barlett, C. P. (2024). Developing, testing, and validating theory on predictors of cyberbullying: A cross-cultural perspective. In A. N. M. Leung, K. K. S. Chan, C. S. M. Ng, and J. C. Lee (Eds.), Cyberbullying and Values Education for Children and Adolescents in Schools (pp. 30-45). Routledge Publishers.
Barlett, C. P., Kowalski, R. M., & Wilson, A. (2023). Meta-analyses of the predictors and outcomes of cyberbullying perpetration and victimization while controlling for traditional bullying perpetration and victimization. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 74, 101886. DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2023.101886
Barlett, C. P. & Scott, J. E. (2023). Racism behind the screen: Examining the mediating and moderating relationships between anonymity, online disinhibition, and cyber-racism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(6), 1332-1350. DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000360