Specialist Research Laboratory

Social/Personality Laboratory

Research Activities

Current Areas of Research

• Dehumanisation processes
• Implications of essentialist thinking for stereotyping and prejudice
• Perception of people with mental disorders
• Implicit social cognition methodology
• Application of taxometric procedures in personality psychology

Research Staff:

• Professor Nick Haslam

• Research associate:

• Dr. Brock Bastian

Lab Facilities:

The Laboratory is equipped for research in the broad field of social and personality psychology, particularly social cognition experiments.:

Funding & Grants:

Current Research Students:

• Lauren Ban
• Leah Kaufmann
• Stephen Loughnan
• Catherine Reynolds
• Sam Wilson

Publications (2003-present)

Humanness and dehumanization

Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., Loughnan, S., Shi, J., & Suitner, C. (in press). Subhuman, inhuman, and superhuman: Contrasting humans and nonhumans in three cultures. Social Cognition .

Haslam, N., & Loughnan, S. (in press). Attributing aberrant emotionality to others. In L. Charland & P. Zachar (Eds.) Fact and value in emotion . Amsterdam : John Benjamin.

Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., Reynolds, C., & Wilson, S. (in press). Dehumanization: A new perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.

O'Connor, M., Loughnan, S., & Haslam, N. (in press). The self is implicitly seen as more human than others. In F. Columbus (ed.), Advances in psychology research, Vol 53 . New York : Nova Publishers.

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.

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

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.

Psychological essentialism

Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (in press). Immigration from the perspective of hosts and immigrants: The roles of psychological essentialism and social identity. Asian Journal of Social Psychology .

Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (in press). Psychological essentialism and attention allocation: Preferences for stereotype consistent versus inconsistent information. Journal of Social Psychology .

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

Haslam, N., Bastian, B., Bain, P. G., & Kashima, Y. (2006). Psychological essentialism, implicit theories, and intergroup relations. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 9, 63-76 .

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

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

Haslam, N., Rothschild, L., & Ernst, D. (2004). Essentialism and entitativity: Structures of beliefs about the ontology of social categories. In V. Yzerbyt, C. Judd, & O. Corneille (Eds.), The psychology of group perception (pp. 61-78). Philadelphia , PA : Psychology Press.

Rothschild, L., & Haslam, N. (2003). Thirsty for H 2 O: A pragmatist theory of psychological essentialism. New Ideas in Psychology, 21, 31-41.

Taxometrics and psychiatric classification

Olatunji, B., Williams, B., Haslam, N., & Abramowitz, J. S., & Tolin, D. F. (in press). The latent structure of obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A taxometric study. Depression & Anxiety .

Rawlings, D., Williams, B., Haslam, N., & Claridge, G. (in press). Taxometric analysis supports a dimensional latent structure for schizotypy. Personality and Individual Differences .

Haslam, N. (2007). Do categories or dimensions underlie mental disorders? An update on the taxometric evidence. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 3 , 172-177.

Haslam, N., Williams, B., Prior, M., Haslam, R., Graetz, B., & Sawyer, M. (2006). Testing the latent structure of ADHD: A taxometric analysis. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 40 , 639-647.

Haslam, N., & Williams, B. (2006). Taxometrics. In S. N. Strack (Ed.), Differentiating normal and abnormal personality, 2 nd ed. (pp. 283-308). New York : Springer.

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

Forbes, D., Haslam, N., Williams, B., & Creamer, M. (2005). Testing the latent structure of PTSD: A taxometric study of combat veterans . Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18, 647-656 .

Haslam, N., Williams, B. J., Kyrios, M., McKay, D., & Taylor, S. (2005). Subtyping obsessive-compulsive disorder: A taxometric analysis. Behavior Therapy, 36, 381-391.

Haslam, N. (2003). Categorical vs. dimensional models of mental disorder: The taxometric evidence. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 37, 696-704.

Haslam, N. (2003). The dimensional view of personality disorders: A review of the taxometric evidence. Clinical Psychology Review, 23, 75-93.

Rothschild, L., Cleland, C., Haslam, N., & Zimmerman, M. (2003). A taxometric analysis of borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 657-666.

Perceptions of mental disorder & stigma

Haslam, N. (2007). Lay conceptions of mental disorder: Introduction to the special issue. Australian Psychologist, 42, 79-80.

Haslam, N., Ban, L., & Kaufmann, L. (2007). Lay conceptions of mental disorder: The folk psychiatry model. Australian Psychologist, 42, 129-137 .

Read, J., Haslam, N., Sayce, L., & Davies, E. (2006). Prejudice and schizophrenia: A review of the ‘mental illness is an illness like any other' approach. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 114, 303-318.

Giummarra, M. J., & Haslam, N. (2005). The lay concept of childhood mental disorder. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 35, 165-180.

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

Levi, M., & Haslam, N. (2005). Lay explanations of mental disorder: A test of the folk psychiatry model. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 27 , 117-125.

Read, J., & Haslam, N. (2004). Public opinion: Bad things do happen and can drive us crazy. In J. Read, L.Mosher, & R. Bentall (Eds.), Models of madness: Psychological, social and biological approaches to schizophrenia (pp. 133-145). London : Brunner-Routledge.

Glovsky, V., & Haslam, N. (2003). Acculturation and changing concepts of mental disorder: Brazilians in the U.S.A. Transcultural Psychiatry, 40, 50-61.

Haslam, N. (2003). Folk psychiatry: Lay thinking about mental disorder. Social Research, 70, 621-644.

Refugee issues

Haslam, N., & Pedersen, A. (2007). Public opinion about asylum seekers: the psychology of exclusion. In D. Lusher & N. Haslam (eds.), Yearning to breathe free: Seeking asylum in Australia (pp. 208-218). Sydney : Federation Press.

Lusher, D., & Haslam, N. (2007). Editors' introduction. In D. Lusher & N. Haslam (Eds)., Yearning to breathe free: Seeking asylum in Australia (pp. 1-3). Sydney : Federation Press.

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

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.

Relational models theory

Allen, N. B., Semadar, A., & Haslam, N. (2005). Relationship patterns associated with vulnerability to psychopathology. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 29, 737-750 .

Fiske, A. P., & Haslam, N. (2005). The four basic social bonds: Structures for coordinating interaction. In. M. W. Baldwin (Ed.), Interpersonal cognition (pp. 267-298). New York : Guilford Press.

Caralis, D., & Haslam, N. (2004). Relational tendencies associated with broad personality dimensions. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 77, 397-402.

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

Haslam, N. (2004). Introduction. In N. Haslam (Ed.), Relational models theory: A contemporary overview (pp. ix-xv). Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum.

Haslam, N. (2004). A relational approach to the personality disorders. In N. Haslam (Ed.), Relational models theory: A contemporary overview (pp. 335-362). Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum.

Haslam, N. (2004). Research on the relational models: An overview. In N. Haslam (Ed.), Relational models theory: A contemporaryoverview (pp. 27-57). Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum.

Haslam, N., & Fiske, A. P. (2004). Social expertise: Theory of mind or theory of relationships? In N. Haslam (Ed.), Relational models theory: A contemporary overview (pp. 147-163). Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum.

Miscellaneous: social

Haslam, N., Ban, L., Kaufmann, L., Loughnan, S., Peters, K., Whelan, J., & Wilson, S. (in press). What makes an article influential? Predicting impact in social-personality psychology, Scientometrics .

Kashima, Y., & Haslam, N. (in press). Explanation and interpretation: An invitation to experimental semiotics. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology .

Miscellaneous: personality

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

Boldero, J., Rawlings, D. R., & Haslam, N. (2007). Convergence between GNAT-assessed implicit and explicit personality . European Journal of Personality, 21, 341-358 .

Haslam, N., Bastian, B., Fox, C., & Whelan, J. (2007). Beliefs about personality change and continuity. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1621-1631.

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

Haslam, N. (2004). Prudence. In C. Peterson & M. E. P. Seligman, Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification (pp. 477-497) . New York : Oxford University Press & American Psychological Association.

Miscellaneous: clinical

McNab, C., Haslam, N., & Burnett, P. (2007). Expressed emotion, attributions, utility beliefs, and distress in parents of young people with first episode psychosis. Psychiatry Research, 151, 97-106 .

Haslam, N. (2006). Bias in psychopathology research. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 19, 625-630.

Iyer, D. S., & Haslam, N. (2006). The psychological cost of new cosmopolitanism: Eating disorders in the context of globalization. In G. Rajan & S. Sharma (Eds.), New cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the United States (pp. 138-149) . Stanford , CA : Stanford University Press.

Gottdiener, W., & Haslam, N. (2003). A critique of the methods and conclusions in the Patient Outcome Research Team (PORT) report on psychological treatments for schizophrenia. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 31, 191-208.

Iyer, D. S., & Haslam, N. (2003). Eating and body image disturbance in South Asian-American women: The role of racial teasing. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 34, 142-147.