Scholarship and Biography

Professor Knight's research focuses on aggressive behavior and fantasies in general and on sexual aggression, psychopathy, and bullying in particular. He is interested in etiology, life course, typological differentiation among aggressive individuals, and predicting both aggressive and adaptive outcomes. He has developed a contingency-based, computerize assessment tool, the Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Aggression, which serves as a core component of his multiple research programs.

Honors

Distinguished Beverly Professor at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada, Toronto) - CAMH, 1994
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1996-1997
Significant Achievement Award
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, 1998
Mentor Award
Society for Research in Psychopathology, 2013
Fellow
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, 2016

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University

Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Ph.D.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
M.A.
Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
B.A.