| Professor Eva Kemps |
Applications of cognitive experimental psychology in the areas of eating behaviour and physical activity |
| Professor Reg Nixon |
Posttraumatic stress in children and adults, the development and treatment of acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder following initial trauma |
| Professor Emma Thomas |
Political engagement (protest) and extremism; group emotions; moralization; radicalization and political violence; conspiracy theories and misinformation; social media and social change. |
Professor Tracey Wade
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Eating disorders, bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa, risk factors (genetic and environmental), diagnostic and classificatory issues, treatment, prevention, the impact of perfectionism |
Professor Michael Wenzel
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Social psychology issues of justice and morality, justice restoration, moral repair and reconciliation |
| Professor Robyn Young |
Autism, older persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and people with ASD who unwittingly become involved in crime |
| Associate Professor Lisa Beatty |
Psycho-oncology, psycosocial adjustment concerns of people with cancer, self-directed interventions, digital health |
| Associate Professor Sarah Cohen-Woods |
Behavioural genomics and epigenomics across the lifespan in mental and physical health |
| Associate Professor Daniel King |
Digital technology-based problems focused on online gambling and simulated gambling |
| Associate Professor Jessica Paterson |
Sleep research, sleep inertia, shift work, first responder occupational groups |
| Associate Professor Melanie Takarangi |
Memory distortion, autobiographical memory for negative and traumatic experiences, intrusive and involuntary memories in attitudes towards wrongful conviction, expectancy effects, the relationship between alcohol, crime and memory, and other legal implications of memory distortion |
Associate Professor Nathan Weber
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Applied and theoretical aspects of metacognition, witness’s decisions to make an identification from a line-up, regulation of grain size and reporting of eyewitness testimony, predictors of identification accuracy, monitoring and control processes in recognition memory, mechanisms underlying positive versus negative recognition decisions |
Associate Professor Tim Windsor
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Changes in activity engagement, social behaviour, emotion regulation, and cognition that occur during adulthood and ageing, and psychosocial characteristics such as control beliefs and sense of purpose that contribute to effective self-regulation and development over the lifespan |
Associate Professor Lydia Woodyatt
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Social and clinical psychology of applying the science of emotions, motivation, and justice to individuals, relationships, organisation, and education |
Dr Ryan Balzan
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The role that cognitive biases or problematic thinking styles play in the development and maintenance of delusions, and the reasons why people form misbeliefs for example in the area of eating disorders |
| Dr Mariette Berndsen |
Emotions, how other persons influence our emotions over and above the emotional stimulus itself and how emotions influence our behaviours, group-based emotions; perspective taking and intergroup conflicts, and the rise of prejudice and discrimination cross-cultural psychology |
| Dr Monica Cations |
Ageing, dementia and dementia care pathways, knowledge translation, young onset dementia, epidemiology, and psychological trauma |
| Dr Julie Mattiske |
Abnormal psychology, human memory function, women's health, and methodological issues, particularly in relation to research into interventions |
| Dr Paul Williamson |
Memory judgments, memory conformity, the misinformation effect and how confidence-accuracy plays a role; emotion recognition and uncertainty orientation in decision-processes |
| Dr Stephanie Wong |
Frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer disease, atrophy, apathy, memory, aphasia |
