Melissa Wheeler

More confident, less formal: stylistic changes in academic psychology writing from 1970 to 2016

Melissa A Wheeler, Ekaterina Vylomova, Melanie J McGrath, Nick Haslam

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTOMETRICS

Stylistic changes in academic psychology writing were examined in a corpus of 790,520 psychology journal article abstracts publish..

Responsible Leadership and the Reflective CEO: Resolving Stakeholder Conflict by Imagining What Could be done

Nicola M Pless, Atri Sengupta, Melissa A Wheeler, Thomas Maak

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS

In light of grand societal challenges, most recently the global Covid-19 pandemic, there is a call for research on responsible lea..

Employment Precarity Strengthens the Relationships Between the Dark Triad and Professional Commitment

Leah M Kaufmann, Melissa A Wheeler, Victor E Sojo

Journal article  |  2021  |  Frontiers in Psychology

The Dark Triad traits of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy have been found to negatively impact work behaviors includi..

Proceedings of Gender and Sexuality at Work: A Multidisciplinary Research and Engagement Conference 2020

Victor Sojo Monzon, Melissa Wheeler

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of Gender and Sexuality at Work: A Multidisciplinary Research and Engagement Conference 2020

Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep

Nick Haslam, Brodie C Dakin, Fabian Fabiano, Melanie J McGrath, Joshua Rhee, Ekaterina Vylomova, Morgan Weaving, Melissa A Wheeler

Journal article  |  2020  |  EUROPEAN REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

“Concept creep” is the gradual semantic expansion of harm-related concepts such as bullying, mental disorder, prejudice, and traum..

Does social mix reduce stigma in public housing? A comparative analysis of two housing estates in Melbourne

Kate Raynor, Laura Panza, Camilo Ordóñez, Mladen Adamovic, Melissa A Wheeler

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cities

In Australia and many other countries of the Global North, public housing estates are being dismantled and redeveloped to create m..

Concept creepers: Individual differences in harm-related concepts and their correlates

Melanie J McGrath, Kathryn Randall-Dzerdz, Melissa A Wheeler, Sean Murphy, Nick Haslam

Journal article  |  2019  |  Personality and Individual Differences

Research on ‘concept creep’ argues that harm-related concepts such as abuse, bullying, prejudice, and trauma have expanded their m..

Changing morals: We’re more compassionate than 100 years ago, but more judgmental too

Melissa Wheeler, Nick Haslam, Melanie McGrath

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Values such as care, compassion and safety are more important to us now than they were in the 1980s. The importance of respecting ..

Twentieth century morality: The rise and fall of moral concepts from 1900 to 2007

Melissa A Wheeler, Melanie J McGrath, Nick Haslam

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLoS ONE

Trends in the cultural salience of morality across the 20th century in the Anglophone world, as reflected in changing use of moral..

The Specter of Complicity: A Natural Experiment of Elites' Response to a Disgraced Peer in Hollywood

Franz Wohlgezogen, Victoria Roberts, Melissa Wheeler

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings

The present research examines elites’ moral voice in a situation where a fellow member of the elite faces accusations of misconduc..