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Anthony Volk
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Research
Latest papers
Personality adaptively mediates ecological affordances and behavior across the lifespan.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026 · first author
Two-tiers of life history: straw men, polar bears, and confusing causation.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2025 · first author
Psychopathic Traits and the Cheater-Hawk Hypothesis.
Journal of interpersonal violence · 2019
Latest funding
- $70,469
Adolescents' Use of Cooperative and Coercive Social Power
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $29,476
Understanding the Expression of Classroom Incivility Across Middle Childhood
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $26,121
The Development of HEXACO Personality
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Personality adaptively mediates ecological affordances and behavior across the lifespan.
Volk A
Two-tiers of life history: straw men, polar bears, and confusing causation.
Volk A
Psychopathic Traits and the Cheater-Hawk Hypothesis.
Book A, Methot-Jones T, Blais J, Hosker-Field A, Volk A, Visser BA, Gauthier N, Holden RR, D'Agata MT
Adolescent risk correlates of bullying and different types of victimization.
Volk A, Craig W, Boyce W, King M
Adolescents' Use of Cooperative and Coercive Social Power
Principal investigators: Volk, Anthony A.
Keywords: social power; adolescence; development
Understanding the Expression of Classroom Incivility Across Middle Childhood
Principal investigators: Spadafora, Natalie
Keywords: classroom incivility; middle childhood; early adolescence; elementary teachers
The Development of HEXACO Personality
Principal investigators: Volk, Anthony
Keywords: personality; development; children; adolescents; HEXACO; evolution
The Development of HEXACO Personality
Principal investigators: Volk, Anthony
Keywords: personality; development; children; adolescents; HEXACO; evolution
Reconceptualizing bullying: strengthening the foundation for measurement, research, interventions and policy
Principal investigators: Volk, Anthony A.
Keywords: bullying; measurement; theory; adolescence; evolutionary psychology; prevention; knowledge mobilization
Student success: community and family initiatives to support Aboriginal youth
Principal investigators: Zinga, Dawn M.
Keywords: Aboriginal knowledge; Aboriginal youth and families; Aboriginal parenting; community-based research; reflexive research; best practices; community engagement
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Anthony Volk and Angela Book: 1 shared paper
- Anthony Volk and Julie Blais: 1 shared paper
- Angela Book and Julie Blais: 1 shared paper
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Personality
- Other Psychology
Co-authors at Brock University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
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