Professor Nick Haslam

BA (Hons), MA, PhD

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I received my PhD in social and clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, and my interests have straddled the two fields ever since. My research and writing have several main strands:

1. Lay conceptions of human nature and dehumanization.
2. Psychological essentialism and its implications for stereotyping and prejudice.
3. Basic forms of social relationships.
4. Lay conceptions of mental disorder (‘folk psychiatry').
5. Psychiatric classification
6. Taxometric methods.

Research Interests:

• Social & Organisational Psychology

Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:

Associations

• Association for Psychological Science
• Researchers for Asylum Seekers (Director)
• Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
• Society for Personality & Social Psychology
• Society of Experimental Social Psychology

Awards

• Fellow, Association for Psychological Science , 2007
• Consultant Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 2005–
• Editorial Board, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships , 2004–
• Editorial Board, Review of General Psychology , 2006-
• Australian Psychological Society Psychology of Relationships Research Award, 2002.
• James McKeen Cattell Fund Sabbatical Award, 2001.
• Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University , 2001.
• Distinguished University Teaching Award, New School for Social Research, 2000.

Recent Funded Research:

Books:

Lusher, D., & Haslam, N. (Eds.) (2007). Yearning to breathe free: Seeking asylum in Australia . Sydney : Federation Press.

Haslam, N. (2007). Introduction to personality and intelligence . London : Sage.

Ruscio, J. P., Haslam, N., & Ruscio, A. M. (2006). Introduction to the taxometric method: A practical guide . Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.

Haslam, N. (Ed.) (2004). Relational models theory: A contemporary overview . Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.

Refereed Journal Articles:

Haslam, N. (2007). Humanising medical practice: The role of empathy. Medical Journal of Australia , 187, 381-382.

Haslam, N., & Bain, P. (2007). Humanizing the self: Moderators of the attribution of lesser humanness to others . Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 57-68.

Loughnan, S., & Haslam, N. (2007). Animals and androids: Implicit associations between social categories and nonhumans. Psychological Science,18, 116-121 .

Bain, P. G., Kashima, Y., & Haslam, N. (2006). Conceptual beliefs about human values and their implications: Human n ature beliefs predict value importance, value trade-offs and responses to value laden rhetoric. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 351-367.

Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (2006). Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 228-235 .

Haslam, N. (2006). Dehumanization: An integrative review. Personality and Social Psychology Review,10, 252-264.

Haslam, N., & Levy, S. (2006). Essentialist beliefs about homosexuality: Structure and implications for prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 471-485 .

Haslam, N. (2005). Dimensions of folk psychiatry. Review of General Psychology, 9 , 35-47.

Haslam, N., Bain, P., Douge, L., Lee, M., & Bastian, B. (2005). More human than you: Attributing humanness to self and others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 937-950 .

Porter, M., & Haslam, N. (2005). Predisplacement and postdisplacement factors associated with mental health of refugees and internally displaced persons: A meta-analysis. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 294, 602-612.

Haslam, N., Bain, P., & Neal, D. (2004). The implicit structure of positive characteristics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30 , 529-541.

Haslam, N., Bastian, B., & Bissett, M. (2004). Essentialist beliefs about personality and their implications. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1661-1673 .

PhD Students under Supervision:

Lauren Ban, Leah Kaufmann, Stephen Loughnan, Catharine McNab, Cat Reynolds, Sam Wilson