Dr NICHOLAS LONGPRE

  • Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Psychology

    Accepting PhD Students

    PhD projects

    Sexual Violence (sexual harassment, sexual coercion, rape, sadistic rape, sexual homicide) -
    Hypersexuality -
    Paraphilias and Atypical Sexual Interests -
    Child Sexual Exploitation Material -
    Terrorism and Radicalization -
    Incels -
    Stalking -
    Knife Crime -
    Dark Tetrad -
    Cognitions, Emotional recognition and underlying Brain structures

    20092025

    Research activity per year

    Personal profile

    Biography

    2008-2011 - Université de Montréal

    Master’s Degree (M.Sc.) - Criminology

    Master Thesis Title: Théories implicites chez les agresseurs de femmes adultes (The implicit theories of adult rapists)

    2011-2016  - Université de Montréal

    Doctoral’s Degree (Ph.D.) - Criminology

    Doctoral Thesis Title: Un poison même à petite dose: étude de la structure latente et des facteurs développementaux du sadisme sexuel (A poison even in small dose: Study of the latent structure and development antecedents of sexual sadism)

    2016-2018  - Brandeis University

    Postdoctoral Associate - Psychology

    Under the supervision of Raymond A. Knight, the Mortimer Gryzmish Professor of Human Relations at Brandeis University

    Research interests

    Under Review

    Longpré, N., & Knight, R.A. (Under Review). Development and validation of The Agonistic Continuum Scale (TACS).  

    Beckett, N.S., Longpré, N. & Stefanska, E.B. (Under Review). Updated Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale: An Item Response Theory Analysis. 

    Rohrer, D., Longpré, N., & Knight, R.A. (Under Review). The Dual Factor Structure of Hypersexuality: Creating a Brief Survey.   

    Research Funding - Under Review

    2025  National Crime Agency (Under Review)  - A Knowledgebase to Counter Seriously Organised Crime Anti-Forensic Evasion Using AI - £99,785.09 - Usman*, Bello, Bussu, Keay, Rafiq, Balogun, Longpré, Towers, Ahmed & Cullen  

    2025  NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities Open Competition XS 2025 round 1 (Under Review) - The Effect of Violent Pornography on Perceptions of Consent in Sexual Situations - €40,517.00 - de Roos & Longpré 

    Manuscript in preparation 

    Longpré, N., Beckett, N.S., Snow, E., Savaria, I., & Tachmetzidi Papoutsi, M. (Manuscript in preparation). The TriPM latent structure: Triarchic or septarchic? A replication study.

    Bickell, H. & Longpré, N. (Manuscript in preparation). Prevalence and psychological correlates of child sex abuse among female in the general population. 

    Dauphinais, L., Longpré, N., Duval, M., Raiche, A.P., Guay, J.P., Knight, R.A., & Proulx, J.  (Manuscript in preparation). A Taxometric Investigation of Sexual Sadism: Can Phallometric Assessment Provide Further Evidence of Dimensionality?  

    Tachmetzidi Papoutsi, M. & Longpré, N. (Manuscript in preparation). Amongst the Shadows of Stalking and Sexual Violence.  

    Tachmetzidi Papoutsi, M. & Longpré, N. (Manuscript in preparation). Stalking and the Dark Tetrad: The impact of the dark traits.  

    Germain Chartrand, V., Guay, J.P., & Longpré, N. (Manuscript in preparation). Everyday sadism and psychopathic traits: Their relation to facial affect recognition.

     

    Teaching

    Programme Leader

    BSc Psychology with Forensic Perspectives 

    BSc Psychology & Criminology 

    Committees 

    2022 –  Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (SSREC) – Faculty of Arts & Science

    2024 –  VASP/ MASC Membership 

    Public/media engagement

    Longpré, N., Guay, J.P. & Knight, R.A. (Winter, 2016). Toward a Developmental Model of Severe Sexual Sadism. Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), The Forum Newsletter - Student’s Voice, Vol. XXVIII (1)

    http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/atsa/issues/2015-12-15/3.html

     

    Longpré, N. (March 30, 2017). Presenting your Doctoral Thesis - A poison even in small dose: Study of the latent structure and development antecedents of sexual sadism. Journal le Forum: Université de Montréal.

    http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2017/03/30/quand-faire-souffrir-fait-jouir/ 

     

    Longpré, N. (April 12, 2017). Sexual sadism: ‘It’s a question of degree, not of nature’. Montreal Gazette.

    http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/studying-sexual-sadism-its-a-question-of-degree-not-of-nature?utm_source=UdeMNouvelles&utm_campaign=8f59eaf8a7-RSS_RP_Publique&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5cf28dd13d-8f59eaf8a7-283171613

     

    Longpré, N., Stefanska, E., & Tachmetzidi Papoutsi, M. (March/ April issue, 2023). When the myth of Apollo and Daphne becomes reality: The relationship between Stalking and Sexual Violence. National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse (NOTA) newsletter.

     

    Contribution to: Russo, F. (July 26, 2023). Psychologists struggle to explain the mind of the stalker. Scientific American.

    Psychologists Struggle to Explain the Mind of the Stalker | Scientific American

     

    Contribution to: Dolan, E.W. (March 21, 2024). The psychology of forbidden pleasures: New insights into paraphilic interests uncovered. Psy Post.

    https://www.psypost.org/the-psychology-of-forbidden-pleasures-new-insights-into-paraphilic-interests-uncovered/

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