Keara Werth

Keara Werth
  • PhD Student
  • School of Criminal Justice
  • MA 2023, Univeristy of Colorado - Colorado Springs
  • BA 2020, Univeristy of Colorado - Colorado Springs
  • BA 2020, Univeristy of Colorado - Colorado Springs

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Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Keara Werth (she/they) is a first-year doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs in 2020 with two B.A. degrees, one in Psychology and one in Criminal Justice. Following, she earned her M.A. in Psychology (Psychological Science Track) from the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs in 2023.

She is passionate about pursuing research which lies at the intersection of Psychology and Criminal Justice, exemplified by her Master's thesis titled "Predicting Recidivism in 33,835 Inmates from Psychological and Neuropsychological Variables." She hopes to produce work which propels understanding of mass shootings, extremism, and violence against the LGBTQIA2+ community. She has a specific interest in using comparative frameworks to improve risk assessment for mass violence broadly, and school shootings more specifically.

Selected Publications

Werth, K. (2023). Predicting recidivism in 33,835 inmates from psychological and neuropsychological variables [Master’s thesis, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Werth, K.A. & Dixon, K. (2022). Content analysis of death row inmate pen pal profiles
[Paper presentation]. Annual research conference of the Society for Personality & Social
Psychology (SPSP). San Francisco, CA.

Miura, K., Muhonen, M., Werth, K.A., & Lac, A. (2022). A quantitative content analysis
of Reddit's psychedelic microdosing community [Paper presentation]. Annual research
conference of the Western Psychological Association (WPA). Portland, OR.

Werth, K.A., Headen, B., & Pedler, R. (2021). Intersection of teacher gender and
attractiveness on child sexual abuse myth acceptance [Paper presentation]. Annual
research conference of the American Psychological Association (APA). San Diego, CA.

Harvey, A.M., Thompson, S., Lac, A., & Coolidge, F.L. (2019). Fear and derision: A
quantitative content analysis of provaccine and antivaccine internet memes. Health
Education & Behavior, 46(6), 1012-1023.