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Psychological essentialism and attention allocation: preferences for stereotype-consistent versus stereotype-inconsistent informationBrock Bastian
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Soc Psychol 147:531-41. 2007..The authors propose that research on implicit person theories can be placed within an encompassing framework of psychological essentialism...- Universal biases in self-perception: better and more human than averageSteve Loughnan
University of Melbourne, Australia
Br J Soc Psychol 49:627-36. 2010..Self-humanizing was not specific to Western or English-speaking cultures and its magnitude was less cross-culturally variable than self-enhancement. Implications of these findings for research on the self and its biases are discussed... - Categories versus dimensions in personality and psychopathology: a quantitative review of taxometric researchN Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Med 42:903-20. 2012..This review indicates that most latent variables of interest to psychiatrists and personality and clinical psychologists are dimensional, and that many influential taxonic findings of early taxometric research are likely to be spurious... 
More human than you: attributing humanness to self and othersNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:937-50. 2005..Study 4 replicated the effect experimentally. Thus, people perceive themselves to be more essentially human than others...- Essentialist beliefs about personality and their implicationsNick Haslam
University of Melbourne, Department of Psychology, Parkville, Vic, Australia
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:1661-73. 2004.... - Essentialist beliefs about homosexuality: structure and implications for prejudiceNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Australia
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:471-85. 2006.... - The implicit structure of positive characteristicsNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:529-41. 2004..All three taxonomies were systematically related to this implicit structure, but none captured it satisfactorily on its own. Revisions to positive psychology's classification of strengths are proposed... - Dehumanization: an integrative reviewNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC, Australia
Pers Soc Psychol Rev 10:252-64. 2006..Instead, dehumanization becomes an everyday social phenomenon, rooted in ordinary social-cognitive processes... - Categorical versus dimensional models of mental disorder: the taxometric evidenceNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 37:696-704. 2003..To review studies of the categorical versus dimensional status of mental disorders that employ taxometric methodology... - The latent structure of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a taxometric analysisNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 40:639-47. 2006.... - Bias in psychopathology researchNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Curr Opin Psychiatry 19:625-30. 2006..This review provides an overview of recent research on the forms of bias that are commonly examined in the field... - Humanizing the self: moderators of the attribution of lesser humanness to othersNick Haslam
University of Melbourne, Department of Psychology, Parkville, Australia
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:57-68. 2007..quot; All findings were distinct from those attributable to self-enhancement. Self-humanizing may reflect a combination of egocentrism, focalism, abstract representation of others, and motivated processes... - Symptom networks and psychiatric categoriesNick Haslam
University of Melbourne, Department of Psychology, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Behav Brain Sci 33:158-9. 2010..Network models misrepresent these categories, and fail to recognize that some comorbidity may represent valid co-occurrence of discrete conditions... - Categories and continua: a review of taxometric researchNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr 128:271-320. 2002..Moreover, they contend that the research possibilities that it affords have yet to be fully exploited... - Predicting long-term citation impact of articles in social and personality psychologyNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
Psychol Rep 106:891-900. 2010..A citation advantage was also enjoyed by authors from the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom. 37% of the variance in the total number of citations was accounted for by the study variables... - Genetic essentialism, neuroessentialism, and stigma: commentary on Dar-Nimrod and Heine (2011)Nick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
Psychol Bull 137:819-24. 2011..The common thread of these essentialisms is their tendency to deepen social divisions and promote forms of social segregation... - Our flaws are more human than yours: ingroup bias in humanizing negative characteristicsPeter Koval
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 38:283-95. 2012..These ingroup humanizing biases may serve a group-protective function by mitigating ingroup flaws as "only human.".. - Testing the latent structure of posttraumatic stress disorder: a taxometric study of combat veteransDavid Forbes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
J Trauma Stress 18:647-56. 2005..Ruscio, Ruscio, & Keane, 2002). Implications are drawn for the conceptualization, etiology, and assessment of PTSD... - Afterimages of savages: implicit associations between primitives, animals and childrenAnnick Saminaden
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Br J Soc Psychol 49:91-105. 2010..They imply that colonial 'images of savages' persist in contemporary western society as a cultural residue... - The lay concept of "mental disorder" among American undergraduatesNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, New School University
J Clin Psychol 58:479-85. 2002..83). Lay and DSM-IV understandings of "mental disorder" showed moderate convergence... - The lay concept of childhood mental disorderMelita J Giummarra
National Ageing Research Institute, PO Box 31, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 35:265-80. 2005..Three dimensions described beliefs about childhood psychopathology: social deviancy, harmful dysfunction, and harmful environment. Harmful dysfunction was related to mental disorder and help seeking judgments... - The taxon concept is not taxonic: response to Grove (2008)Nick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia or e mail
Psychol Rep 104:784-6. 2009..This position does not imply that determining something to be taxonic is arbitrary but suggests that one should not make strong inferences about causation (e.g., specific etiology) on the basis of taxometric research findings... - Conceptual beliefs about human values and their implications: human nature beliefs predict value importance, value trade-offs, and responses to value-laden rhetoricPaul G Bain
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Australia
J Pers Soc Psychol 91:351-67. 2006..Human nature beliefs therefore play a central role in the psychology of values... - Expressed emotion, attributions, utility beliefs, and distress in parents of young people with first episode psychosisCatharine McNab
School of Behavioral Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Psychiatry Res 151:97-106. 2007..Beliefs about the utility of criticism may play an important role in EE among parents of young people with first episode psychosis, and may provide further direction for interventions designed for this group... - Animals and androids: implicit associations between social categories and nonhumansStephen Loughnan
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Psychol Sci 18:116-21. 2007..Explicit ratings supported these differential associations. Social perception may involve two subtle ways of dehumanizing others... - Essentialist thinking about depression: evidence for polarized beliefsNick Haslam
School of Behavioural Science, Department of Psychology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Psychol Rep 91:1253-4. 2002.... - The dimensional view of personality disorders: a review of the taxometric evidenceNick Haslam
Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Parkville, Australia
Clin Psychol Rev 23:75-93. 2003..Analyses of the three PDs investigated to date strongly support taxonic (i.e., categorical or discontinuous) models. Implications for the conceptualization and classification of PDs are drawn... - Body image and eating disturbance among south Asian-American women: the role of racial teasingDana Sahi Iyer
Department of Psychology, New School University, New York, New York, USA
Int J Eat Disord 34:142-7. 2003..This study investigated whether being teased about racial or ethnic features might also play a role in these disturbances in minority women... - A taxometric study of borderline personality disorderLouis Rothschild
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 112:657-66. 2003..The procedures indicated that BPD does not represent a latent category. Implications are drawn for the conceptualization and etiology of BPD, and for the categorical versus dimensional status of personality disorders in general... - Relational tendencies associated with broad personality dimensionsDionyssios Caralis
New School University, USA
Psychol Psychother 77:397-402. 2004..The interpersonal domain of personality may therefore be somewhat broader than many mainstream personality theorists suppose... - Are essentialist beliefs associated with prejudice?Nick Haslam
New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Br J Soc Psychol 41:87-100. 2002..Nevertheless, the powerful association that essence-related beliefs had with anti-gay attitudes was independent of established prejudice-related traits, indicating that they have a significant role to play in the psychology of prejudice... - Aberrant social relations in the personality disordersNick Haslam
New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Psychol Psychother 75:19-31. 2002..Aberrations of authority- and equality-based relationships were central to many PDs, but not captured well by the circumplex. A relational analysis affords a fruitful and largely unexplored perspective on PDs... - Humanizing medical practice: the role of empathyNick Haslam
Med J Aust 187:381-2. 2007 - Taxonicity of adolescent melancholia: a categorical or dimensional construct?Paul J Ambrosini
MCP Hahnemann University, USA
J Psychiatr Res 36:247-56. 2002..The findings suggest that the latent structure of melancholia in adolescents is similar to its previously identified categorical structure in adults. Implications for clinical research are discussed... - Computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation reduces negative symptoms in the severely mentally illDona M Bellucci
CPC Behavioral Healthcare, High Point Center Way, Morganville, NJ 07751, USA
Schizophr Res 59:225-32. 2003..Symptom reduction was not mediated by raised self-esteem. CACR's effects may go beyond cognitive remediation to include some of the most disabling and refractory clinical features of schizophrenia... - Acculturation and changing concepts of mental disorder: Brazilians in the USAViviane Glovsky
New School University, New York, USA
Transcult Psychiatry 40:50-61. 2003..American acculturation yielded no convergence of distúrbio mental with the concept of disorder embodied in DSM-IV... - Predisplacement and postdisplacement factors associated with mental health of refugees and internally displaced persons: a meta-analysisMatthew Porter
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Department of Pediatric Psychiatry, New York, NY 10032, USA
JAMA 294:602-12. 2005..To date, no empirical synthesis of research on these issues has been undertaken...