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I received my PhD in 2003 and my BA (Honours) in Psychology in 1998 from the University of Waterloo. I am an associate editor at the Journal of Personality and former associate editor at Self & Identity. I also co-author the market-leading social psychology textbook in Canada, with Steven Smith, Jean Twenge, and David Myers, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
My academic career has centered on understanding how people evaluate themselves — and how that, in turn, shapes how they relate to and understand others. Trained as a social psychologist, I use a social-cognitive lens to study how people think about themselves and their social worlds. This started with research on self-evaluation and self-esteem, which led me to focus much of my work on narcissism specifically.
I'm particularly interested in the social motives and worldviews that sustain self-enhancing and narcissistic behavior. That interest has most recently led me to study dispositional counter-empathy (the tendency to feel emotions opposite to those of other people) and everyday dehumanization, a phenomenon my collaborators and I call NPC-orientation. Over the course of my career, I've also studied related topics, including defensiveness, mindfulness, interdependent self-construal, awe, and self-diminishment.
My research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and prominent academic book series, and has been presented at international conferences. It has also been featured in news outlets such as The New York Times, The National Post, Psychology Today, and Scientific American.
I sometimes have research assistantships (RA) opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the self and social cognition. If you are interested in volunteering in the lab, contact me for more information.
I regularly supervise graduate students in the area of social and personality psychology, studying narcissism, counter-empathy, perceptions of being in conflict with other people, and everyday dehumanization.
- Jordan, C. H., & Mahadevan, N. (2026). Ego, elevation, and exclusion: Bidirectional prospective associations between narcissism and status and inclusion. Journal of Personality. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70081
- Thielmann, I., Back, M. D., Bleidorn, W., Bukowski, H., Carlson, E. N., Dufner, M., Hofer, G., Hofmann, W., Hopwood, C. J., Human, L. J., Jordan, C. H., Krueger, J. I., Langdon, J., Rau, R., Smillie, L. D., Strohminger, N., Sun, J., Vazier, S., Burghart, M., Casali, N., & Seidl, A. (2026). A consensus statement on self-knowledge conceptualization, measurement, outcomes, and changeability. Nature Reviews Psychology. 5, 338-351. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-026-00554-1
- Siamro, J. R., & Jordan, C. H. (2025). Disentangling counter-empathy: Developing a three-dimensional model and measure of dispositional counter-empathy. Journal of Personality, 94, 584-601. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70023
- Marie-Lynch, J. C., Giacomin, M., Jordan, C. H., & Benson, A.J. (2025). The reputational consequences of narcissism in teams: Trajectories of liking and being viewed as narcissistic. Journal of Research in Personality, 119, 104664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104664
- Mahadevan, N., & Jordan, C. H. (2025). Climbing the dark ladder: How status and inclusion aspirations, perceived attainment, and behaviors relate to the dark triad. Behavioral Sciences, 15, 1221. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15091221
PS270 - Social Psychology
PS295 - Introduction to Research Methods
PS470 - Seminar in Social Psychology
PS670 - Seminar in Social Psychology
Contact Info:
T: 548-889-3685
Office location: N2022
Office hours:
Tuesdays, 1:00-2:00pm
Languages spoken: English