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Jamin Halberstadt

Head of Department

Email jamin.halberstadt@otago.ac.nz
Tel 64 3 479 7644

Professor Jamin Halberstadt is a member of the Social Perception Area of Research Excellence, the Memory Theme, the Otago Lifespan Development Research Group, and was a founding member of the OZONE young researcher advisory group. He has supervised 8 PhD students (4 still in progress), and has been named an outstanding research supervisor 4 times by the Otago University Student Association.

Internationally, he is a Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology and serves as an Associate Editor of the Society's journal. He has published over 50 research articles and chapters in top international journals, and presents regularly at international conferences. In 2012 he will begin a term as an Associate Editor of the journal Psychological Science.

Jamin joined the Department in 1997. He has over 20 years of research experience, and has taught over 15 years at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

Teaching

Research Interests

  • Social cognition
  • Social categorisation
  • Facial attractiveness
  • Emotion perception
  • Decision making

Find out more about Professor Halberstadt's research interests

Publications

Davey, S., Halberstadt, J., & Bell, E. (2024). Where is an emotion? Using an emotional spatial cueing task to test for emotional localization following targeted visceroception. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 65, 104-118. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12959

Hartman, R., & Halberstadt, J. (2023). Dualism and eating habits. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) and the Australasian Congress on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID). (pp. 136-137). Retrieved from https://sasp-acpid.org

Ransom, C., & Halberstadt, J. (2023). What is privacy? Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP) and the Australasian Congress on Personality and Individual Differences (ACPID). (pp. 70-71). Retrieved from https://sasp-acpid.org

Hartman, R., & Halberstadt, J. (2023). Dualism, religiosity and health. Proceedings of the Psycolloquy Symposium. (pp. 34). Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/psychology/research/otago059081.html

Malaei, F., McNaughton, N., Halberstadt, J., & Sole, G. (2023). The impact of body engagement on cognitive performance. Proceedings of the Psycolloquy Symposium. (pp. 31). Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Psychology, University of Otago. Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/psychology/research/otago059081.html

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