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Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne.
Books & Arts
President Wilson on the couch
Nick Haslam
16 May 2023
What happened when a diplomat teamed up with Sigmund Freud to analyse the president?
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Social fitness
Nick Haslam
23 March 2023
A tight network of interpersonal connections is both a buffer and a blanket
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Appointment with death
Nick Haslam
6 February 2023
How best should we cope with our awareness of death — and a desire to control when it happens?
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Illness and identity
Nick Haslam
10 November 2022
The stories we tell ourselves about our mental distress can have unexpected effects
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Threshold moments
Nick Haslam
16 September 2022
Is it any surprise that we cling to old rituals and invent new ones?
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Even amoebas
Nick Haslam
4 September 2022
A prince and a psychologist detect more of the Good Samaritan in humans than we might imagine
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Stranger danger
Nick Haslam
3 September 2021
An American take on the benefits of talking to strangers has a message for Australians
From the archive
New tricks
Nick Haslam
30 July 2021
We might not be able to change who we are, but we can certainly change what we do
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On seduction, brainwashing and being converted
Nick Haslam
15 June 2021
A characteristically elliptical new book from the famed British psychotherapist Adam Phillips
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The self-esteem racket, and other quick fixes
Nick Haslam
4 May 2021
How overhyped findings undermined psychology’s authority
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Sick of all my kicks
Nick Haslam
30 April 2020
Books
| Should we embrace boredom?
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Ages of anxiety
Nick Haslam
23 October 2019
Books
| There are reasons why Claire Weekes didn’t receive professional recognition, but they don’t take away from her achievement
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You’ve got to give it to Cupid
Nick Haslam
25 September 2019
Books
| A psychologist looks at how brain damage and disease can influence sexuality
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The second mountaineer
Nick Haslam
7 June 2019
Books
| Conservative commentator David Brooks mightn’t be writing for everyone, but he’s traversing important terrain
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Fighting for face
Nick Haslam
14 March 2019
Books
| What makes political leaders take their country to war?
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University challenge
Nick Haslam
21 October 2018
Books
| Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students?
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Not my type
Nick Haslam
8 October 2018
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| What explains the curious persistence of the Myers–Briggs personality test?
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Going under
Nick Haslam
3 July 2017
Books
| When does consciousness end and unconsciousness begin?
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No time like the present
Nick Haslam
27 February 2017
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| Our experience of time has a lot to do with how we balance past, present and future