PhD
Victor Chukwudike Okoro (2022–2025) – “A psychological approach to understanding and predicting insider threat”
Navdeep Kaur (2022–2025) – “The Role of Materials in the Evolution of Religious Belief”
Chiara Venanzetti (2019-2024) – "Anti-immigration panics: the role of online political propaganda in building the untrustworthy 'other'"
Brett Jordan Waggoner (2018-2022) – "Legacy: Motivations and mechanisms for a desire to be remembered"
Thanaphat Thongpaibool (2018-2021) – "There is always a reason: Cognitive and experiential impacts on reasoned attitudes"
Steven Andrew Davey (2017-2021) – "Where is an emotion?"
Keren Segal (2014-2019) – "The role of possessions in the quest for immortality: Literal and symbolic mechanisms"
Lianne Emma Atkinson (2015-2019) – "Does Age-Related Stereotype Threat Affect Older Adults' Recognition of Emotion?"
Thomas Paul David Swan (2015-2019) – "The Effect of Anxiety on Religious Cognition"
Marea Susanna Colombo (2014-2018) – "Keeping your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Group Membership and Theory of Mind"
Christopher Jackson (2013-2017) – "Death and failure: A cautionary tale of death anxiety and alternate causality"
Victoria Alogna (2013-2017) - "The Divergent Effects of Prayer on Cognitive Performance"
Helen Owen (2012-2016) - "Truth in Text: Why Simple Language is Perceived as More Credible"
Jo Secher (2011-2015) - "Overhyped and Underresearched: What Explains Risk Perception of Malicious Hazards?"
David Barton (2012-2015) - "Exploring a Social "Bouba-Kiki" Effect and the Affective Consequences of Having a Congruent Versus Incongruent Name"
Azra Jahanitabesh (2010-2013) - "The Concreteness Effect: The Impact of Depressive Rumination on Recognition and Interpretation of Facial Expressions in Dysphoric Women" (Co-Supervised with Fernando)
Tristan Phillips (2008-2013) - "Motive, Character and the Moral Good: Elaboration on a Footnote"
Jonathan Jong (2008-2011) - "Scaring the Bejesus Into People: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Explicit and Implicit Religious Belief" (Co-Supervised with Dawes)
Donna Anderson (2007-2010) - "The Influence of Entitlement Attitudes on Effortful, Self-Directed Behaviour" (Co-Supervised with Conner)
Paul Knox (2007-2010) - "Memory Biases in Social Anxiety" (Co-Supervised with Knight)
Mami Yamaguchi (2007-2011) - "Pitfalls of Extrinsic Goal Pursuit: Wellbeing, Life Goals, and Self-Focused Attention" (Co-Supervised with Conner)
Kumari Fernando (2002-2006) - "A Good Woman: Silencing the Self, Rumination and Depression in Romantic Relationships"
Evonne Miller (2000-2004) - "Media and Body Image: Exploring the Discrepancy Between Body Perception and Satisfaction"
Master's
Samantha Smith (2019) - "Challenges of Religious Scepticism: Do those who reject the afterlife fear a visit from the dead?"
Zoe Morris Trainor (2018) - "When do People Turn to Religion to Cope with Trauma?"
Kahla Redman (2017) - "Fiction Reading and Sexism: Exploring the Effects of Fiction Reading and Transportation on Sexist Attitudes"
Laura McCambridge (2013-2015) - "Social Effects of Causal Opacity and Pain in Rituals"
Arnika van den Berg (2012-2015) - "Name-Face Congruency in Biracials: Perception of Euraskians in New Zealand"
Ben Riordan (2011-2013) - "Positive Affect and Typicality: An Investigation of Flexible Categorization Accounts"
Sam O'Sullivan (2010-2013) - "The 'Right' Name Feels Right: The Influence of Stimulus 'Fit' on Affective Experience"
Neville Todd (2009-2012) - "Is Self-Esteem Embodied?: The Influence of Vertical Orientation on Self-Esteem and Domain Specific Sociometers"
Rajshree Krishan (2009-2010) - "Mood Congruency in Affective Forecasting: The Effects of Current Mood in Near Versus Distant Future Predictions"
Fraser Cross (2007-2009) - "Heroes of Villains: The Moderating Role of Perceived Typicality in the Perception of Positive and Negative Stereotypes"
Tina Vater (2006-2008) - "The Relationships Among Prototypicality, Attractiveness and Frequency in Emotional Faces"
Mark Phillips (2006-2009) - "The Role of Salient Affective Information During Decisions Employing Analytic Thought"
Anna Reynolds (2006-2008) - "Implicit Egotism and Self-Esteem"
Donna Anderson (2005-2007) - "The Influence of Affect on Internal Information Use"
Shaysta Dean (2005-2007) - "The Mechanisms of Reasons Analysis and Chronic Reasoning in Person Perception"
Myalisa Stevens (2005-2006) - "Intuition and Face Perception"
Steve Catty (2001-2004) - "To Think or Not To Think?: An Overcomplication Account of Reasons Analysis"
Carolyn Jones (2001-2006) - "Mood and Partner Choice, How One Affects the Other"
Clayton Badland (2000-2002) - "The Influence of Emotional Response on Social Categorization"
William Jorgensen (2000) - "Incongruity, Resolution, Humour, and Creativity: Are Bad Puns Really All Bad?"
Eva Lobach (1998-1999) - "Mood and Decision Making" (Co-Supervised with Koele)
Honours and undergraduate
Jenn Arrell (2016) - "Religion, Intuition and Reasoning on an Ease-of-Retrieval Task"
Jenn Arrell (2015) - "The Effect of Secular Rituals on Religious and Nonreligious Individuals' Fusion with Their Country"