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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

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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., 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.
  • Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Radke, H. (2012). Don't mind meat? The denial of mind to animals used for human consumption. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 247-256.
  • 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., Holland, E., & Kuppens, P. (2012). Categories versus dimensions in personality and psychopathology: A quantitative review of taxometric research. Psychological Medicine, 42, 903-920.
  • 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., 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.
  • Park, J., Haslam, N., & Kashima, Y. (2012). Relational to the core: Beliefs about human nature in Japan, Korea, and Australia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 43, 774-783.
  • Toner, E., Haslam, N., Robinson, J., & Williams, P. (2012). Character strengths and wellbeing in adolescence: Structure and correlates of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Children. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 637-642.

Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Personality and Social Psychology
  • Current Topics in Social Psychology
  • Mind, Brain and Behaviour
  • Advanced Personality and Social Psychology
  • Current Topics in Social Psychology
  • Mind, Brain and Behaviour

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Nick Haslam
School of Psychological Sciences
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3010
Australia

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

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