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Nick Haslam

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Research interests:

(1) psychological essentialism (in relation to stereotyping and prejudice)

(2) dehumanization and beliefs about human nature, including their cultural dimensions

(3) folk psychiatry (lay conceptions of abnormality)

(4) bibliometrics, including citation analysis of scientific fields and careers

(5) classification of personality and psychopathology, taxometric methods

(6) mental illness stigma

Primary Interests:

  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Person Perception
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Person Perception
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping

Research Group or Laboratory:

Books:

Journal Articles:

  • Bain, P., Vaes, J., Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., & Guan, Y. (2012). Folk psychologies of humanness: Beliefs about distinctive and core human characteristics in three countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43, 53-58.
  • Bastian, B., & Haslam, N. (2010). Excluded from humanity: Ostracism and dehumanization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 107-113.
  • 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. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 819-824.
  • Haslam, N. (2011). The return of the anal character. Review of General Psychology, 15, 351-360.
  • Haslam, N. (2010). Bite-size science: Relative impact of short article formats. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 263-264.
  • Haslam, N., & Laham, S. (2010). Quantity, quality, and impact in academic publication. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 216-220.
  • Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., & Sun, P. (2011). Beastly: What makes animal metaphors offensive? Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 30, 311-325.
  • Haslam, N., & Lusher, D. (2012). The structure of mental health research: Networks of influence among psychiatry and clinical psychology journals. Psychological Medicine, 42, 903-920.
  • Koval, P., Laham, S. M., Haslam, N., & Bastian, B. (2012). Our flaws are more human than yours: Ingroup bias in humanizing negative characteristics. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 283-295.
  • Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Bastian, B. (2010). The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals. Appetite, 55, 156-159.
  • Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., Murnane, T., Vaes, J., Reynolds, C., & Suitner, C. (2010). Objectification leads to depersonalization: The denial of mind and moral concern to objectified others. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 709-717.
  • 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. (2011). Economic inequality is linked to biased self-perception. Psychological Science, 22, 1254-1258.
  • Loughnan, S., Leidner, B., Doron, G., Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., Tong, J., & Yeung, V. (2010). Universal biases in self-perception: Better and more human than average. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 627-636.
  • 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.

Nick Haslam
Department of Psychology
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia

Phone: (03) 8344-6297
Fax: (03) 9347-6618

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