Aaron Hissey
The stability of maladaptive personality traits and their impact on others
Aaron Hissey
PhD Student
School of Psychology
Profile
Aaron Hissey is a part-time doctoral candidate within the School of Psychology and a part-time Senior Policy Advisor in the New Zealand public service. His doctoral research examines the stability of maladaptive personality traits across the lifespan, with a focus on psychopathy and narcissism in older age groups, and how those with maladaptive traits negatively impact their partners’ wellbeing. Aaron wants to better understand how personality changes over time and to identify ways to reduce the negative impacts that maladaptive traits can have on others.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), The University of Adelaide
Research Interests
PhD topic
The stability of maladaptive personality traits and their impact on others
Supervisor:
Associate Professor
School of Psychology
Senior Lecturer in Methods and Statistics
School of Psychology
Labs
Affective and Criminal Neuroscience Lab
Directed by Dr Hedwig Eisenbarth
Our research is about the neurobiology of emotion in every-day and antisocial contexts. Psychopathic traits and aggression as well as cooperative behaviour are the constructs we use to investigate the basic mechanisms of emotion processing..