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Prof

Nicholas Haslam

Professor
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
social sciences
psychology
humans
psychology, social
science & technology
psychology, multidisciplinary
female
male
life sciences & biomedicine
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Prof

Nicholas Haslam

 
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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Prejudice & stigma
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Projects

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Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep

2021 - 2023
Active
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Concept creep: Expanding concepts of harm and their implications

This project aims to document how the meanings of psychological concepts – mental disorder, trauma, abuse, prejudice, and bullying, among ot..

2017 - 2020
Completed
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Understanding and reducing the impact of sexual objectification

Violence and discrimination are serious problems facing women in Australia. This project examines how sexual objectification contributes to ..

2015 - 2018
Completed
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Experience sampling study of objectification

2016 - 2017
Completed
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THE POWER OF CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS:GENETIC ESSENTIALIST BIASES AND HEALTH

Great advancements in the science of genetics are accompanied by increased public propensity to attribute causality to the genes for diverse..

2014 - 2017
Completed
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Humans as animals and objects: The psychology of dehumanization

This project will clarify how some individuals and groups as perceived as less than human. It will examine how some groups are subtly seen a..

2012 - 2015
Completed
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Implicit Transmission of Embodied Culture

Is a culturally diverse, yet socially integrated community possible? In multicultural societies such as Australia, this is a pressing and si..

2010 - 2013
Completed
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Dehumanization: Understanding the attribution of lesser humanness to others

The proposed research will contribute to an improved understanding of the subtle ways in which humanness is denied to members of some social..

2007 - 2011
Completed
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Cultural dynamics of narratives: micro and macro implications of narrative transmission

Stories circulated in everyday conversations may have global implications by exerting a subtle cultural influence on social actions. Stories..

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

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Dehumanization and the lack of social connection.

Nick Haslam

Journal article  |  2021  |  Curr Opin Psychol

Dehumanization is traditionally considered in the context of intergroup conflict. An emerging body of research examines how it als..

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Semantic changes in harm-related concepts in English

Ekaterina Vylomova, Nicholas Haslam

Book Chapter  |  2021

concepts. in. English. Ekaterina. Vylomova. &. Nick. Haslam. The University of Melbourne The chapter investigates semantic changes..

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Inclusiveness of the Concept of Mental Disorder and Differences in Help-Seeking Between Asian and White Americans

Jesse SY Tse, Nick Haslam

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Ethnic and racial group differences in help-seeking are a barrier to the effective and equitable delivery of mental health service..

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The Neuroscientification of Psychology: The Rising Prevalence of Neuroscientific Concepts in Psychology From 1965 to 2016

Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova, Sean C Murphy, Sarah J Wilson

Journal article  |  2021  |  PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The apparent convergence of psychology and brain science has been the subject of both celebration and critique, but it has never b..

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The social psychology of dehumanization

N Haslam

Book Chapter  |  2021

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Bugs and Brains, the Gut and Mental Health Study: a mixed-methods study investigating microbiota composition and function in anxiety, depression and irritable bowel syndrome

Carra A Simpson, Orli S Schwartz, Djamila Eliby, Catherine A Butler, Katherine Huang, Neil O'Brien-Simpson, Bridget L Callaghan, Stuart G Dashper, Paul R Gooley, Sarah Whittle, Nick Haslam, Julian G Simmons

Journal article  |  2021  |  BMJ OPEN

INTRODUCTION: Research has highlighted relationships between the micro-organisms that inhabit our gastrointestinal tract (oral and..

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Seven Clarifications on the Psychology of Dehumanization

Jeroen Vaes, Maria Paola Paladino, Nick Haslam

Journal article  |  2021  |  PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Over (2021; this issue) proposes seven challenges to the body of psychological research and theory on dehumanization that has flou..

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Negative emotion and nonacceptance of emotion in daily life.

Natasha H Bailen, Peter Koval, Michael Strube, Nick Haslam, Renee J Thompson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Emotion

Nonacceptance of emotion is consistently linked with increased levels of psychopathology and diminished well-being. Research has f..

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The Creeping Concept of Trauma

Nick Haslam, Melanie J McGrath

Journal article  |  2020  |  SOCIAL RESEARCH

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Development and validation of the Harm Concept Breadth Scale: Assessing individual differences in harm inflation

Melanie J McGrath, Nick Haslam

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Three studies (Ns = 350, 301 & 341) examined the reliability, validity, and correlates of a new measure of harm inflation, the ind..

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Keyword Analysis

Social and Personality Psychology
Expanding Knowledge
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Applied and Developmental Psychology
Other Psychology
Clinical and Health Psychology
Other Culture and Society
Evaluation of Health and Support Services
Clinical Health
Other Human Society

News

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Mental Health ≠ Wellbeing

Nick Haslam, Simon De Deyne

Mental health and wellbeing are in our cultural spotlight as never before. The psychological toll of the COVID-19 pandemic has been front of..

July 18, 2021
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Is psychiatry shrinking what we think of as normal?

Nick Haslam, Fabian Fabiano

What is psychologically normal and what isn’t is defined by various psychiatric classifications that health professionals use to catalogue t..

July 16, 2020
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Can your personality be good, or bad, for your health?

Nick Haslam, Roger Wilkins

If you are an agreeable type you are less likely to develop cancer, but you are more prone to heart disease.If you are an extrovert you are ..

July 1, 2019
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Is Freud’s legacy fading?

Nick Haslam, Lotus Ye

Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx were the towering figures of twentieth century thought and Marxist ideas have had a resurgence in recent years; ..

June 26, 2019
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Treating depression to economically empower mothers

Victoria Baranov, Nick Haslam

In one of the largest psychotherapy trials in the world, researchers have found cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is highly effective in h..

April 5, 2018
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The grim cycle of homelessness and unemployment

Neha Swami, Nick Haslam

Having a job can be a crucial factor in being able to break free from the cycle of homelessness. But despite this well-known link, few studi..

February 25, 2018
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What is mindfulness? Nobody really knows, and that’s a problem

Nicholas Van Dam, Nick Haslam

You’ve probably heard of mindfulness. These days, it’s everywhere, like many ideas and practices drawn from Buddhist texts that have become ..

October 1, 2017
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The science behind love songs

Mark Elgar, Nick Haslam, John Rayner

There’s nothing like a love song to get your heart racing, right? To mark Valentine’s Day we look at five love songs and ask University of M..

February 8, 2017
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Why we show the whites of our eyes

Nick Haslam, Mark Elgar

You know things are getting serious when a poker player slides sunglasses on to stop their eyes giving the game away. But if you were playin..

October 20, 2016
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The secret life of the professor

Nick Haslam, Rod Buchanan

To the few University of Melbourne students who have even noticed, it is likely that Oscar Oeser is simply the name of a seminar room on the..

September 16, 2016
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

Media Award for Public Engagement with Psychological Science

Australian Psychological Society
2014

Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology

2013

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

2007

Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Member

Society of Australasian Social Psychologists

Member

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Fellow

Association for Psychological Science

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Pennsylvania

Master of Arts

University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Arts (honours)

University of Melbourne

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International Linkages

University of California - Los Angeles

United States