Professor Nick Haslam
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Professor
Contact details:
| email: nhaslam AT unimelb.edu.au | |
| telephone: +61 3 8344 6297 |
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:
- Dehumanization and lay conceptions of human nature.
- Psychological essentialism and its implications for stereotyping and prejudice.
- Basic forms of social relationships.
- Lay conceptions of mental disorder (‘folk psychiatry’).
- Psychiatric classification
- Taxometric methods
Research Interests:
Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:
Associations
Awards
- Fellow, Association for Psychological Science , 2007
- Associate Editor, British Journal of Social Psychology, 2009
- Editorial Board, Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 2005–
- Editorial Board, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships , 2004–
- Editorial Board, Journal of Social Issues, 2008-
- 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:
| Project: | Dehumanization: Understanding the attribution of lesser humanness to others (N. Haslam, PI) |
| Year: | 2007-2010 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
| Project: | Cultural dynamics of narratives: Micro and macro implications of narrative transmission (Y. Kashima, PI) |
| Year: | 2004-2008 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
| Project: | UCLA Translational Center for Neurocognition and Emotion in Schizophrenia (consultant) |
| Year: | 2003-2007 |
| Funded by: | National Institute for Mental Health (USA) |
| Administered by: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Project: | Distinguishing categories and dimensions: Taxometric investigations (PI) |
| Year: | 2003-2004 |
| Funded by: | Australian Research Council |
Selected Publications: |
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.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Kashima, Y., Bain, P., Haslam, N., Peters, K., Laham, S., & Whelan, J. (in press). A folk theory of social change. Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Saminaden, A., Loughnan, S., & Haslam, N. (in press). Afterimages of savages: Implicit associations between “primitive” peoples, animals, and children. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Wilson, S., & Haslam, N. (in press). Is the future more or less human? Differing views of humanness in the posthumanism debate. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour.
Haslam, N., Bain, P., Loughnan, S., & Kashima, Y. (2008). Attributing and denying humanness to others. European Review of Social Psychology, 19, 55-85.
Haslam, N., Ban, L., Kaufmann, L., Loughnan, S., Peters, K., Whelan, J., & Wilson, S. (2008). What makes an article influential? Predicting impact in social and personality psychology. Scientometrics, 76, 169-185.
Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., Loughnan, S., Shi, J., & Suitner, C. (2008). Subhuman, inhuman, and superhuman: Contrasting humans and nonhumans in three cultures. Social Cognition, 26, 248-258.
Rawlings, D., Williams, B., Haslam, N., & Claridge, G. (2008). Taxometric analysis supports a latent dimensional structure for schizotypy. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 1640-1651.
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 nature 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.
PhD Students under Supervision:
Amanda Allan, Melanie Bissett, Leah Kaufmann, Peter Koval, Joonha Park, Cat Reynolds, Sam Wilson