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Evita March

Dr. Evita March

Associate Professor, Psychology

Contact

e.march@federation.edu.au +61 (3) 51228044

Campus

Berwick Campus

Biography

Associate Professor Evita March (She/Her) is a leading international expert in online behaviour, relationships, and individual differences. Evita is invited to present to national and international academic and industry audiences and is regularly approached by media to comment on current events that lead public debate on cyber abuse and safety.

Evita is interested in interpersonal relationships and how individual differences and environments influence relationships. Primarily, Evita’s expertise is the psychology of online behaviour, and she has led pioneering research in cyber abuse and technology-facilitated intimate partner violence. Evita’s research interests and expertise include:

How offline and online environments influence interpersonal relationships
The perpetration and experience of antisocial and prosocial online behaviour
How individual differences, such as personality, empathy, and self-esteem, influence relationships and behaviour
The occurrence of abuse and violence in intimate relationships, and how the online environment facilitates this behaviour

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Publications

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"It's All in Your Head": Personality Traits and Gaslighting Tactics in Intimate Relationships

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1007/s10896-023-00582-y

Stress-coping mechanisms and problematic social media use: A network analysis and differences across men and women

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100848

Personality and internet trolling: a validation study of a Representative Sample

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1007/s12144-023-04586-1

High (in)fidelity: gender, the Dark Tetrad, and infidelity

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1080/14681994.2023.2220279

Exploring the roles played by trust and technology in the online investment fraud victimisation process

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1177/26338076241248176

Assessing the impact of griefing in MMORPGs using self-determination theory

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chb.2024.108388

Editorial: Internet deviance

Journals
DOI reference: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1495767

Control in Intimate Relationships: An Exploration of Insecure Attachment Styles, Emotion Dysregulation, and Shame-Proneness

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1007/s10896-024-00784-y

An exploration of trolling behaviours in Australian adolescents: An online survey

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284378

The Role of Consent and Motivations in Sext Dissemination

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1177/08862605231163886

Dating in the dark: Vulnerable narcissism predicts inauthentic self-presentation in online dating

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.tele.2023.101985

The Three Cs of Psychological Mate Preferences: The Psychological Traits People Want in Their Romantic and Sexual Partners

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197524718.013.3

Disordered Social Media Use during COVID-19 Predicts Perceived Stress and Depression through Indirect Effects via Fear of COVID-19

Journals
DOI reference: 10.3390/bs13090698

Catching the catfish: Exploring gender and the Dark Tetrad of personality as predictors of catfishing perpetration

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107599

Psychometric properties of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale: An analysis using item response theory

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100473

Intimate Partner Cyberstalking: Exploring Vulnerable Narcissism, Secondary Psychopathy, Borderline Traits, and Rejection Sensitivity

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1089/cyber.2022.0167

Trolling, the Dark Tetrad, and the four-facet spectrum of narcissism

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2023.112169

Who cyberstalked their sexual and romantic partners? Sex differences, dark personality traits, and fundamental social motives

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1007/s12144-021-02174-9

Antisocial and Prosocial online behaviour: Exploring the roles of the Dark and Light Triads

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1007/s12144-021-01552-7

Psychopathy: Cybercrime and cyber abuse

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1016/B978-0-12-811419-3.00015-7

Talkin’ Bout My Generation: The Utility of Different Age Cohorts to Predict Antisocial Behaviour on Social Media

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-030-99049-7_3

Socially Connected during COVID-19: Online social connections mediate the relationship between loneliness and positive coping strategies

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The dark triad, empathy, and motives to use social media

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111647

Buffering the Fear of COVID-19: Social Connectedness Mediates the Relationship between Fear of COVID-19 and Psychological Wellbeing

Journals
DOI reference: 10.3390/bs12030086

The Role of Procrastination Between Personality Traits and Addictive Mukbang Watching Among Emerging Adults

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1177/21582440221085006

Passive, invasive, and duplicitous: Three forms of intimate partner cyberstalking

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111502

More than a preference for online social interaction: Vulnerable narcissism and phubbing

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110715

The Role of Individual Differences in Cyber Dating Abuse Perpetration

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0687

Just Checking It Out? Motivations for and Behavioral Associations With Visiting “Slutpages” in the United States and Australia

Journals
DOI reference: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.671986

Insta-identity: Dark personality traits as predictors of authentic self-presentation on Instagram

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.tele.2021.101669

'Just checking': Vulnerable and grandiose narcissism subtypes as predictors of phubbing

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1177/2050157920942276

Hegemonic masculinity, gender, and social distance: the mediating role of perceived dangerousness

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1080/09589236.2020.1844000

Study addiction and ‘dark’ personality traits: a cross-sectional survey study among emerging adults

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1080/10550887.2021.1872469

Dangerous dating in the digital age: Jealousy, hostility, narcissism, and psychopathy as predictors of Cyber Dating Abuse

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106711

Dark Tetrad personality traits and the propensity to lie across multiple contexts

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110792

Inauthentic self-presentation on facebook as a function of vulnerable narcissism and lower self-esteem

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chb.2019.08.020

High Esteem and Hurting Others Online: Trait Sadism Moderates the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Internet Trolling

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1089/cyber.2019.0652

'Just checking': Vulnerable and grandiose narcissism subtypes as predictors of phubbing

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1177/2050157920942276

Exploring anger as a moderator of narcissism and antisocial behaviour on tinder

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.109961

Somebody that I (used to) know: Gender and dimensions of dark personality traits as predictors of intimate partner cyberstalking

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110084

Dominance or deceit: The role of the Dark Triad and hegemonic masculinity in emotional manipulation

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110160

Belief in conspiracy theories: The predictive role of schizotypy, Machiavellianism, and primary psychopathy

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225964

Using Tinder® to start a fire: Predicting antisocial use of Tinder® with gender and the Dark Tetrad

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.03.014

Psychopathy, sadism, empathy, and the motivation to cause harm: New evidence confirms malevolent nature of the Internet Troll

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.001

A Qualitative Analysis of Internet Trolling

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1089/cyber.2018.0210

Development of a Japanese version of the Global Assessment of Internet Trolling-Revised

Journals
DOI reference: 10.4992/jjpsy.89.17229

Masculinity might be more toxic than we think: The influence of gender roles on trait emotional manipulation

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.09.042

Strategies for Ph.D. Completion: A Critical Reflection by Completed Ph.D. Candidates.

Book Chapters
DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-030-23731-8_20

Coping strategies of parents of children with autism in regional Australia.

Book Chapters
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New evidence shows self-esteem moderates the relationship between narcissism and selfies

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.053

Predicting Short- and Long-Term Mating Orientations: The Role of Sex and the Dark Tetrad

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1080/00224499.2017.1420750

Netflix and Chill? What Sex Differences Can Tell Us About Mate Preferences in (Hypothetical) Booty-Call Relationships

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1177/1474704918812138

Trolling on Tinder (and other dating apps): Examining the role of the Dark Tetrad and impulsivity

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.01.025

Predicting perpetration of intimate partner cyberstalking: Gender and the Dark Tetrad

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.03.012

Constructing the cyber-troll: Psychopathy, sadism, and empathy

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2017.06.038

Sending nudes: Sex, self-rated mate value, and trait Machiavellianism predict sending unsolicited explicit images

Journals
DOI reference: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02210

A review of prevalence studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder by latitude and solar irradiance impact

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.09.012

Stress Associated with Commencing University: A Comparison of Metropolitan and Rural and Regional Students

Conference Proceedings
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More of a (wo)man offline? Gender roles measured in online and offline environments

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.07.018

Current prescriptions of men and women in differing occupational gender roles

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1080/09589236.2015.1090303

Social-economic theory and short-term mate preferences: The effects of gender roles and socioeconomic status

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1111/ajpy.12102

The dark side of Facebook : The Dark Tetrad, negative social potency, and trolling behaviours

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.043

Sex Differences in Mate Preferences in Australia: Exploring Evolutionary and Social-Economic Theories

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1017/jrr.2012.3

Sex, sexual orientation, and the necessity of physical attractiveness and social level in long-term and short-term mates

Journals
DOI reference: 10.1017/jrr.2014.12