PhD students
Meet our Psychology PhD students and explore their research topics.
To find out more about our PhD students, their Psychology research, and how to contact them, visit their individual profile pages via the links below.
Aaron Hissey
The stability of maladaptive personality traits and their impact on others
Alana Haenga-O'Brien
Exploring Rangatahi Māori Understandings of Wairuatanga and Hauora
Annabelle Wride
Developing a Theory of Intimate Partner Aggression in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Annalisa Hughes
Cultural Context and Crime: How should the sociocultural environment feature in psychological explanation and practice for forensic purposes?
Daniel Wegerhoff
Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Gangs as Groups.
Dryden Badenoch
Improving Cognitive Assessment Post-Stroke
Elizabeth McLean
The life experience of adolescent Māori females in the New Zealand criminal justice system.
Ethan Carter
Conceptual issues with our current explanations of psychopathology and offence-related behaviours.
Geraldine Smieszhala
Nonadherence to preventive health behaviours.
Gerard Janse van Rensburg
Understanding the nature of prejudice: A Multi-level Analysis of the Antecedents of Prejudice and Discrimination
Giovanni Zani
Action Understanding and Theory of Mind
Harry Dent
Emotional processes in correctional rehabilitation: An enactive approach
In Kuk Kim
Effective communication for pro-environmentalism.
Joanna Mete
Cognitive control mechanisms in anxiety
Jordan Payne
Mechanisms of Psychological Distress in Rural New Zealand.
Juan Pablo (John) Vega
What's his deal? Understanding Social Deviance and Norm Breaking in Intra-group Settings
Justin Murphy
Does mindful attention impact processing of emotional stimuli?
Kate Witt
The role of the dopamine D1 receptor in the negative symptoms of Schizophrenia.
Konstantina Vasileva
Imagery is more than meets the eye: a new look at mental imagery processing in working memory
Kylie Sutcliffe
Scalable approaches to improving access to psychological therapies among high school students in Aotearoa New Zealand
Larissa Rocha
Investigating the acute and long-term effects of psilocybin in serotonin transporter knock-out and wild type female rats. // Effects of Psilocybin in Female Rat
Laura Kranz
The role of cognition and emotion in science communication
Laurel Keats
Autobiographical memory and young people's depressive symptoms across time
Linda Fatialofa
A Preliminary Descriptive Model for Youth Offending
Manjuparna Raychaudhuri
Trajectory profiles of youth engaging in repeat offending
Mei-Jing Lin
Adults Automatic Imitation and Theory of Mind Processing
Michaela Dresel
Social cognitive development in infants
Molly Fisher
Determining the role of power and gender in men’s resistance to seek support.
Natasha Knack
Causal mechanisms underlying the effect of sexual arousal on sexual decision making
Nicky Duff
The role of autobiographical memory in problem solving.
Nuzha Saleem
The effect of identity and belonging on resilience in ethnic minority youth.
Olivia Nop
Sexism and victim blaming in sexual assault in religious communities
Pieter Six
Theory of Mind and Motor Cognition.
Quenten Highgate
Investigating the Role of Behavioral Flexibility in Drug Addiction
Ririwai Fox
The role of Māori cultural embeddedness in the formation and/or reshaping of personal identity across the life-span.
Roisin Whelan
Exploring the autobiographical memories of young people who offend
Taylor Winter
Investigating how the gut microbiome signals the brain to facilitate emotion regulation.
Tessa Burgess
The relationship between Emotional Support, Autobiographical Memory and Psychological Wellbeing within Romantic Relationships
Tyler Ritchie
Indigenous perspectives on multiculturalism.