Associate 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, including the processes of subtle dehumanisation by which humanness is attributed in interpersonal and intergroup perception.
2. Psychological essentialism, specifically people's beliefs about the underlying nature of social categories and personality traits, and their implications for stereotyping and prejudice.
3. Relational models theory, developed by Alan P. Fiske, which proposes that there are four fundamental models that govern human social cognition and behaviour;
4. Lay conceptions of mental disorder, developing a theoretical model of the cognitive bases of these understandings.
5. Psychiatric classification, particularly the application of taxometric methods for testing between categorical and dimensional models of mental disorders.

Research Interests:

• Social & Organisational Psychology

Professional Associations, Memberships & Awards:

Associations

• American Psychological Society
• Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (Treasurer)
• Society for Personality & Social Psychology
• Society of Experimental Social Psychology

Awards

• Consultant Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psycholog, 2005–
• Editorial Board, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2004–
• Editorial Board, Review of General Psychology, 2006-
• Associate Editor, Australian Psychologist, 2002– 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:

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., & 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.

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 .

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

PhD Students under Supervision:

Lauren Ban, Brock Bastian, Leah Kaufmann, Stephen Loughnan, Catharine McNab, Cat Reynolds, Jennifer Whelan, Sam Wilson