Majeed, Khader
Adjunct Associate Professor (Honorary)
Ph.D. (Aberdeen), M.Sc. with Distinction (Forensic Psych) (Leicester), B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.) (NUS)
An alumni, Dr Majeed is Singapore’s first criminal-forensic psychologist. He is Chief Psychologist at the Ministry of Home Affairs and Director of the Home Team Behavioural Sciences Centre. A trained hostage negotiator and profiler, he was a pioneer in police psychology and previously Deputy Commander of the Crisis Negotiation Unit. For the last two decades, he has overseen the development of psychological services and research in the areas of law enforcement stress, employee selection, deception psychology, crisis leadership, crisis negotiations, and crime profiling.
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Research Interests:
- Crisis Management Psychology
- Personality Psychology
- Criminal and Legal Psychology
- Cultural Psychology and Crime
- Policing and psychology
- Extremism psychology
Recent/Representative Publications:
Khader, M. (2019). Crime and behaviour: An introduction to criminal and forensic psychology. World Scientific Publications.
Khader, M., Neo, L. S., Tan, T., Cheong, D., & Chin, J. (2019). Learning from violent extremist attacks: Behavioural sciences insights for practitioners and policy makers. World Scientific Publications.
Khader, M., & Poh S. Y. (2017). A multidisciplinary approach to understanding internet love scams. In W. Petherick & G. Sinnamon (Eds.), The psychology of criminal and antisocial behavior (pp. 523-548). Academic Press.