Rate My Professor Nicholas Haslam

Nicholas Haslam is Professor of Psychology in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He received his BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, and his MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He held academic positions at Harvard University and the University of New South Wales before returning to the University of Melbourne in 2002, where he has been a faculty member since.

Haslam's research specializations lie in social psychology and clinical psychology. His academic interests encompass dehumanization, psychological essentialism, prejudice, psychiatric classification, refugee mental health, and concept creep—the expansion of psychological harm concepts over time. He is a highly influential scholar, with his publications cited more than 45,798 times on Google Scholar. Key publications include 'Dehumanization: An integrative review' (2006, 4,680 citations), 'Predisplacement and postdisplacement factors associated with mental health of refugees and internally displaced persons: A meta-analysis' (2005, 2,664 citations), 'Dehumanization and infrahumanization' (2014, 1,806 citations), 'Essentialist beliefs about social categories' (2000, 1,587 citations), 'Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement' (2006, 909 citations), 'Prejudice and schizophrenia: a review of the ‘mental illness is an illness like any other’ approach' (2006, 887 citations), 'Categories versus dimensions in personality and psychopathology: A quantitative review of taxometric research' (2012, 816 citations), and 'The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals' (2010, 808 citations). Haslam has authored nine books and around 270 articles. He has received major awards including the John Turner Medal (2022) from the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists and the SASP Outstanding Career Award (2022). He serves on the editorial board of Psychological Studies. His work has profoundly impacted understandings of social categorization, mental health stigma, and intergroup relations in psychology.