Concept creep: Expanding concepts of harm and their implications

The semantic inflation of "trauma" in psychology

N Baes, E Vylomova, M Zyphur, N Haslam

2023-01-01

Trauma is an increasingly prominent concept in psychology and society at large. According to the theory of concept creep, it is on..

Has Psychology Become More Positive? Trends in Language Use in Article Abstracts

Naomi Baes, Henry Speagle, Nick Haslam

2022-05-30

The positive psychology movement, launched near the start of the twenty-first century, aimed to shift the focus of psychology away..

Broadened Concepts of Harm Appear Less Serious

Brodie C Dakin, Melanie J McGrath, Joshua J Rhee, Nick Haslam

2022-03-03

Harm-related concepts have progressively broadened their meanings to include less severe phenomena, but the implications of this e..

The Cultural Dynamics of Concept Creep

Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova, Michael Zyphur, Yoshihisa Kashima

2021-09-01

Emerging methods for studying cultural dynamics allow researchers to investigate cultural change with newfound rigor. One change t..

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

Jesse SY Tse, Nick Haslam

2021-07-30

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

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

2021-07-20

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

Seven Clarifications on the Psychology of Dehumanization

Jeroen Vaes, Maria Paola Paladino, Nick Haslam

2021-01-01

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

The creeping concept of trauma

N Haslam, MJ McGrath

2020-09-01

The Creeping Concept of Trauma

Nick Haslam, Melanie J McGrath

2020-09-01

Over the past century the concept of trauma has substantially broadened its meanings in academic and public discourse. We document..

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

Melanie J McGrath, Nick Haslam

2020-08-18

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

Diagnostic inflation in the DSM: A meta-analysis of changes in the stringency of psychiatric diagnosis from DSM-III to DSM-5

Fabian Fabiano, Nick Haslam

2020-08-01

It is often argued that successive editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have relaxed diagno..

Hate, dehumanization, and "hate"

Nicholas Haslam, Sean Murphy

2020-05-01

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

2020-01-01

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

Broad concepts of sexism predict polarized moral judgments of victims and perpetrators

Jake Chan, Nick Haslam

2019-11-01

Research on concept creep suggests that the expansiveness of people's concepts of harm has implications for their moral judgments...

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

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

2019-09-01

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

Freudian Slip? The Changing Cultural Fortunes of Psychoanalytic Concepts

Nick Haslam, Lotus Ye

2019-06-28

It is often argued that psychoanalysis has declined in prominence since its ascendance in the mid-20th century. To assess this cla..

How Does It Feel to Be Treated Like an Object? Direct and Indirect Effects of Exposure to Sexual Objectification on Women's Emotions in Daily Life

Peter Koval, Elise Holland, Michael J Zyphur, Michelle Stratemeyer, Jennifer Makovec Knight, Natasha H Bailen, Renee J Thompson, Tomi-Ann Roberts, Nick Haslam

2019-06-01

Exposure to sexual objectification is an everyday experience for many women, yet little is known about its emotional consequences...

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

Melissa A Wheeler, Melanie J McGrath, Nick Haslam

2019-02-27

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

Evaluation of Semantic Change of Harm-Related Concepts in Psychology

Katerina Vylomova, Sean Murphy, Nick Haslam

2019-01-01

iObjectify: Self- and other-objectification on Grindr, a geosocial networking application designed for men who have sex with men

Joel R Anderson, Elise Holland, Yasin Koc, Nick Haslam

2018-08-01

Grindr is a smartphone application for men who have sex with men (MSM). Despite its reputation as a ‘hook-up app’, little is known..

Looping effects and the expanding concept of mental disorder

N Haslam

2016-03-01

The concept of 'looping effects' helps to clarify how psychiatric conditions are moving targets. As professional understandings of..

Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology

Nick Haslam

2016-01-02

Many of psychology's concepts have undergone semantic shifts in recent years. These conceptual changes follow a consistent trend. ..

Creeping Forward REPLY

Nick Haslam

2016-01-02

CONCEPT CREEP Psychology's Expanding Notions of Harm and Their Moral Basis

Nick Haslam

2016-01-01

THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF RESOURCE USE

Brock Bastian, Daniel Crimston

2016-01-01