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University of Sydney - Cited by 4,727 - Social psychology - Social cognition - Psychological essentialism - Sexuality - Existential Psychology
Integrating research from diverse disciplines (e.g., psychology, communication, sociology, history, political science, law), I examine how communication of theories that emphasize genetic explanations can affect a wide variety of psychological outcomes, from test performance to moral evaluations.
May 5, 2015 · University of Sydney; University of Rochester Medical Center. Current Position. Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) Highest Degree. Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of British Columbia, 2008. Online Media
- Genetic Essentialism
- Sexuality
- Existential Psychology
- Gender Psychology
- Other Areas of Interest
Genetic research has been thriving in the last few decades, but we still know little about the effect of learning about the involvement of genes in our abilities, behaviours, and health. In other words- how are we affected by learning that we have an “obesity gene,” a “breast cancer gene,” or “Jewish genetic markers?” Thus, one of our lab’s researc...
Sex and sexuality have fascinated people throughout the ages. Ample literary works, theological and moral musings, philosophical accounts, social discourse, and popular presentations of various aspects of different aspects of their related behaviour and their underlying meaning have been depicted and communicated for a wide variety of purposes. Peo...
Death has fascinated scholars and laypeople alike. Recent research with a strong empirical component suggests that reminders of death leads people to defend their worldview and beliefs more strongly and show a variety of outcomes from increased aggression to increased benevolence. Our lab investigated a few related outcomes, and is currently focuse...
Gender seems to be one of the most fundamental social categories ever constructed by people. It is hard to “not see gender,” and the role of our tendency to look at the world through the lens of ‘gendered vision’ is central to psychology and overlaps with multiple foci in our empirical and theoretical work. Questions regarding the perception of gen...
In addition to these main foci, our lab maintains active research interests in questions related to individual differences and personality (e.g., what is coolness and who has more of it?), consumer behaviour (e.g., who benefits and who loses from facing more choices?), as well as religion and spirituality (e.g., distinguishing between religiosity a...
Ilan Dar-Nimrod, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney. Ilan has completed his BA with a double major at Haifa University and his M.A. and Ph.D....
Aug 8, 2021 · Ilan Dar-Nimrod Louise Sharpe Recent theoretical and empirical research has demonstrated a relationship between death anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with a focus on...
