I am an experimental social psychologist with an interest in the psychology of morality and social interaction.
I received my PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2006. I have since held post-doctoral positions at the universities of Oxford and Melbourne. I am currently an ARC Research Fellow and lecturer in Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
I am also the author of The Science of Sin (Three Rivers, 2012) (aka The Joy of Sin )
I am studying the combined Master of Clinical Psychology/PhD. My PhD is about the morality of killing in war, but I am also interested in more cheerful topics - such as social psychology, moral psychology in general, and mindfulness.
I completed my undergrad at the University of Melbourne in 2010, and my Honours project was about psycholinguistics. As well as English, I speak Norwegian, and mumble enough German and Italian to get me to the train station.
As far as I can tell, it is possible that I am a p-zombie (the one with the sunglasses). I also really like brains, as long as they have a human attached to them.
Melissa is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the communication of moral judgement justifications and the consequences to moral regulation and action. Other areas of interest include the psychology of religion, moral discourse, and cultural transmission. She holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Alabama and a B.A. (Honours) from the University of Melbourne.
Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD in social and clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and taught for several years at the New School for Social Research. His research has addressed social perception, refugee mental health, dehumanization, prejudice, and psychiatric classification. His books include Relational Models Thoery: A Contemporary Overview, Introduction to the Taxometric Method, Introduction to Personality and Intelligence, Psychology in the Bathroom and Yearning to Breathe Free: Seeking Asylum in Australia.
I received my undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Melbourne where I worked on intergroup dehumanization. Since then, I have completed worked as a post-doctoral fellow both in Australia and the UK, and am currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
My research has examined factors that might cause people to withdraw their moral concern from others, be they humans or animals. Specifically, I have explored how people morally justify eating meat whilst reporting caring about animals, and how sexualized men and women might be denied moral standing. Such journals as Science, Nature, and Cell, have yet to publish my work.
Ain is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, where he also graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in 2009. His research focuses on variability in moral judgement emerging from (1) interpersonal differences in how social relations are understood, (2) individual differences, and (3) variability of the actual relationships in which a moral event can occur. His other research interests include intergroup dynamics, stereotypes, prejudice, and power.
Elise has a B.A. in psychology (Honours) and is currently a social psychology PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Elise's research is concerned with the promotion of environmentally friendly behaviours. In particular, she is looking at the mechanisms behind a process called behavioural spillover, where one action belonging to an environmentally friendly goal construct or value system can inform another related action. She also has variety of side-projects that investigate topics like emotion regulation and interpersonal relationships.
Elise is a third year PhD student at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD thesis focuses on sexual objectification – that is, the transformation of an individual into a thing for another’s sexual use. In particular, Elise is investigating how objectification impacts the perceived moral standing of both women and young girls, and the implications this has in terms of how we perceive and treat females. She is also broadly interested in the psychology of power, choice, and person perception. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne in 2009.
Maria is a PhD candidate in Social and Cross-Cultural Psychology at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Yoshihisa Kashima and Dr. Simon Laham. Her current research is on conflict between groups and how it is affected by evolution, culture, morality, values, language, and norms. In the realm of morality, she is especially interested in how different moral domains and sacred values function in cultural perceptions of relationships, as well as the consequences of infringing upon these moral domains and sacred values. In particular, she studies how individuals react, or what kinds of reactions they see as appropriate, to the same violations that occur in different types of relationships, with a special interest in kinship, and whether aggression, violence and self-sacrifice are seen as justified, appropriate, and able to counteract the effect of the violations.
