I'm a personality psychologist.  My research areas span individual differences that make a difference to the way that we negotiate life tasks, and to the way the we experience others and ourselves.  I research the links between Narcissism and such personality styles as Machiavellianism and psychopathy, with an emphasis on psychological mindedness.  An enduring interest is in self-deception and the different forms that takes from the way that we sculpt an image of ourselves to present to others, right down to a motivated lack of insight into the beliefs we hold and the wellsprings of our own actions.  My enduring project is exploring the nature of Charisma and I have a new article on that topic recently completed.

I'm currently doing research on the shifts in expert movement and instructional nudges in long-term yoga pracitioners, affective profiles of Machiavellian and Narcissistic personalities and the way that guided interviews can change the way that different personalities experience rage.

I will be on OSP in the first semester of 2007, and will not be available for honours supervision in that year.  I teach an array of courses at Macquarie University: a first year introductory block of lectures as well as contributing to PSY 234, a second year course which addresses personality and social psychology.  I run two third year courses relevant to personality: PSY 305 - a Third year personality course, and a course on the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (PSY 361). Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (PSY 361) will not run in 2007 due to my being away on OSP.   I was part of the Sydney Silvan Tomkins Research Group into Tomkin's Affect Theory, and retain a keen interest in his work.  I am a foundational member of the Working Through Psychoanalysis group.
 
 

Research	Teaching	Outreach	Wider interests
Recent Publications	Semester One 2006 PSY 234 Students: PSY 234  PSY 104    Check this out! Harmful Social Science   Please note: Philosophy of Psychoanalysis will not be run in 2007. PSY 361 Philosophy of Psychoanalysis	Radio Program ABC Friday August 5, 2005 Dreams and Psychotherapy   TV Show  2005- Masks Saturday June 4 at 8pm Sunday June 5 at 5:30pm with Antonia Kidman The Women's channel - Program: The Bigger Things  November 2005 All in the Mind Memory      Peer talk:  talk    ABC Radio Program    Radio program March 6: repression	Psychoanalysis and Culture
Recent Reviews The charisma of fallible leaders  Yoga and Psychology  The Science of Love	Semester Two 2006   PSY 305 Personality

 
 
 

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