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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 second-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 also a recipient of the University's Distinguished Fellowship.

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 and ideologically-motivated homicide. She is also one of the student co-founders of MSU's Terrorism, Extremism, and Cybercrime (TEC) Lab.

Selected Publications

White, K.P., Muhonen, M.A., Werth, K.A., & Lac, A. (2025). A meta-analysis of psychopathy and the sociosexual orientation inventory. Personality and Individual Differences, 236, 113021.

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.