Nickola Overall
{{Short description|New Zealand professor of psychology}}
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Nickola Christine Overall (born 1974) is a New Zealand academic, and is a professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, specialising in relationship, family and couples psychology. She is especially interested in communication strategies to overcome conflict.
Early life and education
Overall was born in Te Kūiti in 1974 and completed a PhD titled Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards at the University of Canterbury, supervised by Garth Fletcher.{{Cite thesis |title=Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards |last=Overall |first=Nickola |type=PhD thesis |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10092/4772 |date=2005|hdl=10092/4772 }}{{Citation |last=Overall |first=Nickola |title=Overall, Nickola C. |date=2016 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences |pages=1–2 |editor-last=Zeigler-Hill |editor-first=Virgil |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_273-1 |access-date=2024-03-29 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_273-1 |isbn=978-3-319-28099-8 |editor2-last=Shackelford |editor2-first=Todd K.|url-access=subscription }}
Academic career
After completing her doctorate, Overall joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland REACH lab |title=Nickola Overall |url=https://relationships.auckland.ac.nz/our-people/nickola-overall/}}{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |title=Academic profile: Professor Nickola Overall |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/n-overall |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}
Overall's research focuses on healthy relationships, and how to achieve them, or as she describes it, "I study why relationships screw us up and what we can do about it".{{Cite web |title=Take 10 with... Nickola Overall – The University of Auckland |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/our-research/take-10-with/take-10-with-psychology/take-10-with-nickola-overall.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=www.auckland.ac.nz}} This involves researching topics such as emotional regulation, attachment insecurity, attitudes to power, and sexist attitudes.{{Cite web |title=Nickola Overall |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/rising/nickola-overall.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Association for Psychological Science – APS |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=11 January 2021 |title=Member spotlight: Nickola Overall {{!}} SPSP |url=https://spsp.org/news/member-spotlights/nickola-overall |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=spsp.org}} She has also studied the effect of lockdowns on family relationships.{{Cite web |title=The idea of a new normal is a mistake, say wellbeing researchers |url=https://tewahanui.nz/health/the-idea-of-a-new-normal-is-a-mistake,-say-wellbeing-researchers |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=tewahanui.nz}} Overall is especially interested in communication strategies used by couples in relationships to overcome conflict. Overall's research has found that most people in a relationship want to change something about their partner, but few have success in doing so and trying in the wrong way can negatively affect the relationship.{{Cite web |date=2024-03-30 |title=You can change your partner – but beware |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/you-can-change-your-partner-but-beware/RQHVPQDC54OU5LKSJ5MEGMRNTU/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}
Overall was a principal investigator on a 2017 Marsden grant Conflict recovery in families: Why inevitable conflict does not have to be detrimental, in collaboration with Annette Henderson and Elizabeth Peterson.{{Cite web |title=Search Marsden awards 2008–2017 |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/awarded-grants/search-marsden-awards/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}} Overall has also received research funding from the Auckland Medical Research Foundation and the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust.
Overall has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Honours and awards
- Fellow of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology{{Cite web |title=Fellows {{!}} SPSP |url=https://spsp.org/membership/fellows |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=spsp.org}}
- Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science{{Cite web |title=APS Fellows |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/fellows |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Association for Psychological Science – APS |language=en-US}}
- 2016 Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research{{Cite web |last=LLC |first=Sanibel Technologies |title=IARR – Award Winners |url=https://iarr.org/award-winners.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=iarr.org}}
- 2014 Caryl Rusbult Close Relationships Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to relationship science, awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology{{Cite web |title=Rusbult Young Investigator Award {{!}} SPSP |url=https://spsp.org/membership/awards/earlycareer/rusbult-young-investigator-award |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=spsp.org}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q38440723}}
- {{Cite Q|Q59486811}}
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References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3H9m00yCg The behaviours of people with attachment anxiety] | PhD: Unpacked, interview with Nickola Overall, via YouTube
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HdcgrySfyk Dr Nickola Overall on the impact of gender roles in parenting], Interview of Nickola Overall by Michael Laws on The Platform, via YouTube
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Category:New Zealand women academics
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