Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences

Professor Nick Haslam

BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Professor

Deputy Head

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:

  1. Dehumanization and lay conceptions of human nature
  2. Psychological essentialism and its implications for stereotyping and prejudice
  3. Psychiatric classification
  4. Lay conceptions of mental disorder (‘folk psychiatry’)
  5. Taxometric methods

 

Research Interests:

Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:

Associations

Awards

Recent Funded Research:

Project:
Implicit transmission of embodied culture (with Y. Kashima & S. Laham)
Year: 2010–2012
Funded by: Australian Research Council

 

Project: Dehumanization: Understanding the attribution of lesser humanness to others
Year: 2007-2010
Funded by: Australian Research Council

 

Project: Cultural dynamics of narratives: Micro and macro implications of narrative transmission (with Y. Kashima et al.)
Year: 2004-2008
Funded by: Australian Research Council

 

Selected Publications:

Books:


Haslam, N. (forthcoming). Psychology in the bathroom. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Namy, L. J., Woolf, N. J., Jamieson, G., Haslam, N., & Slaughter, V. (2011). Psychology: From inquiry to understanding. Sydney: Pearson.

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:

Bain, P., Vaes, J., Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., & Guan, Y. (in press). Folk psychologies of humanness: Beliefs about distinctive and core human characteristics in three countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Ban, L., Haslam, N., & Kashima, Y. (in press). Does understanding behavior make it seem normal? Perceptions of abnormality among Euro-Australians and Chinese-Singaporeans. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (in press). Experiencing dehumanization: Cognitive and emotional effects of everyday dehumanization. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Radke, H. (in press). Don’t mind meat? The denial of mind to animals used for human consumption. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Haslam, N. (in press). The return of the anal character. Review of General Psychology.

Haslam, N., Holland, E., & Kuppens, P. (in press). Categories versus dimensions in personality and psychopathology: A quantitative review of taxometric research. Psychological Medicine.

Haslam, N., & Lusher, D. (in press). The structure of mental health research: Networks of influence among psychiatry and clinical psychology journals. Psychological Medicine.

Koval, P., Laham, S. M., Haslam, N., & Bastian, B. (in press). Our flaws are more human than yours: Ingroup bias in humanizing negative characteristics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Loughnan, S., Kuppens, P., Allik, J., De Lemus, S., Dumont, K., Gargurevich, R., Hidegkuti, I., Leidner, B., Matos, L., Park, J., Realo, A., Shi, J., Sojo, V. E., Tong, Y., Vaes, J., Verduyn, P., Yeung, V., & Haslam, N. (in press). Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception. Psychological Science.

Park, J., Haslam, N., & Kashima, Y. (in press). Relational to the core: Beliefs about human nature in Japan, Korea, and Australia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Bastian, B., Laham, S., Wilson, S., Haslam, N., & Koval, P. (2011). Blaming, praising and protecting our humanity: The implications of everyday dehumanization for judgments of moral status. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 469-483.

Haslam, N. (2011). Genetic essentialism, neuroessentialism, and stigma: Comment on Dar-Nimrod & Heine (2011). Psychological Bulletin, 137, 819-824.

Haslam, N. (2011). The latent structure of personality and psychopathology: A review of trends in taxometric research. Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, 8, 17-29.

Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., & Sun, P. (2011). Beastly: What makes animal metaphors offensive? Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 30, 311-325.

Reynolds, C., & Haslam, N. (2011). Evidence for an association between women and nature: An analysis of media images and mental representations. Ecopsychology, 3, 59-64. 

 

PhD Students under Supervision:

Amanda Allan, Elise Holland, Evan Jureidini, Erlend Kvaale, Cat Reynolds

 

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