SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
* Indicates publication with graduate student co-author(s)
*Cotton, A. C., & Scalora, M. J. (2026). Threats behind bars: Implementation of threat assessment in a correctional setting. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000264
*Cotton, A. C., Grydehøj, R. F., Ramzah, H., & Scalora, M. J. (2026). Threat assessment in postsecondary settings: Behavioral and relational predictors of problematic approach behaviors. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 13(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000261
*Cotton, A. C., Viñas-Racionero, M. R., & Scalora, M. J. (2025). The threat within versus the threat beyond: An examination of the differences between insider and outsider threats to college campuses. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 12(2), 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1037/tam0000234
*McGonigal, P.T., Chan, E., Eyer, M.M., Scalora, M.J. (2023). Two sides of the same coin: The role of aggression proneness and disgust in the prediction of homophobic and transphobic attitudes. Manuscript accepted for publication in Violence and Gender.
*McGonigal, P.T., Zimmerman, M., Scalora, M.J. (2022). Psychiatric and medical comorbidity of antisocial personality disorder. In D.W. Black & N. Kolla (Eds.), The Textbook of Antisocial Personality Disorder. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
Scalora, M. J., & Viñas-Racionero, R. (2021). Successful development of threat assessment and management programming within a Midwestern university. In K. Heilbrun, H. J. Wright II, C. Giallella, & D. DeMatteo (Eds.), University and public behavioral health organization collaboration: Models for success in justice contexts (pp. 107–124). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190052850.003.0007
Scalora, M.J. (2021). Electronic threats and harassment: A dominant role in threat assessment. In J.R. Meloy & J. Hoffmann (Eds.), The International Handbook of Threat Assessment (pp. 268-282). Oxford University Press.
Viñas-Racionero, R., Scalora, M. J., & Cawood, J. S. (2021). Workplace violence risk instrumentation: Use of the WAVR-21 V3 and the CAG. In J. R. Meloy & J. Hoffmann (Eds.), International handbook of threat assessment (pp. 522–535). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190940164.003.0030
*Chan, E., Viñas-Racionero, R., Scalora, M.J. (2021). Bridging the gap: The predictive roles of emotion dysregulation and stalking-related attitudes on offline and offline stalking and intrusive harassment. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi:10.1177/08862605211043590
Hodges, H. J., Fessinger, M.B., Bornstein, B.H., Low, E. C., Viñas-Racionero, R., Scalora, M.J. (2020). A loaded subject: Comparison of experiences, knowledge, and attitudes about firearms between a diverse male forensic psychiatric sample and a male community sample. Psychology of Violence, 11(4), 385-394.
Scalora, M.J., Hawthorne, D., Pellicane, T., Schoeneman, K. (2020). A glimpse of threat assessment and management activity performed by the United States Marshals Service. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 7(1-2), 85-97.
Scalora, M.J., Viñas-Racionero, R., Cawood, J.S. (2020). Comparison of the HCR-20v3, the WAVR-21v3, and the CAG performance across workplace homicide scenarios: A pilot study. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, 7(3-4), 186-199.
Pollard, J.W., Disabato, D.J., Polychronis, P.D., Scalora, M.J. (2020). Counseling center clinicians experience providing assessments of risk to self versus risk to others. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. 34(2), 125-137.