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Biography
I completed my BSc(Hons) in Biological Science at the University of London, and my MSc and DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex. I then worked in various post-doctoral positions at CSIRO Food Science, the University of Sydney Department of Psychology and at the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. I started as a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University in 1998, and became a Professor in the Department in 2010.
Research interests
My primary interests relate to food and eating, interoception, evolutionary psychology, and applied experimental psychology. My current projects are varied: Regulation of food intake and obesity, Food preferences, Food cravings, Desire, Body image, Junk food, Naturalness, Disgust, Stigmatisation, Time perception, Microdosing, Multisensory perception, Hallucinations, Imagery, Chemosensory perception and 'Voodoo' science.
Research student supervision
I have supervised alone or together, a range of projects, including studies on epilepsy, multisensory perception, synesthesia, hallucinations, nutritional neuroscience, managing child behavior, food cravings, phobias and disgust. All of these projects have used a myriad of different populations and approaches - neuroimaging, neuropsychology, experimental methods, developmental psychology, surveys, interviews and clinical trials.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Caregiver experiences with feeding issues in dementia
Stevenson, D., Francis, H., Matovic, D., Willcock, S., Heriseanu, A., Norberg, M., Oxenham, V. & Powell, A.
14/04/25 → 14/04/26
Project: Research
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Determining the role of disease avoidance in stigmatization
Stevenson, D., Oaten, M., Chambers, S. & Kurzban, R.
1/01/15 → …
Project: Research
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A longitudinal study of microdosing psilocybin as a treatment for mild/moderate depression
Polito, V., Brett, J., Bayes, A., Stevenson, D., Liknaitzky, P., Rodgers, A., Sowman, P., Jones, M., Shaheen, N., Kang, M., Holdenson Kimura, P., Chapman, N. & Chester, C.
14/04/22 → 30/10/22
Project: Research
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The regulation of desire by bodily state
Stevenson, D., Francis, H. & Yeomans, M.
4/06/21 → 3/06/24
Project: Research
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As good as fresh nutritionally but not perceived that way: implicit and explicit biases towards canned and frozen fruits and vegetables
Dudley, L. M., Saluja, S., Stevenson, R. J., Francis, H. M. & Case, T. I., Aug 2025, In: Food Quality and Preference. 129, p. 1-12 12 p., 105517.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Barriers to adequate fruit and vegetable consumption: exploring biases towards canned & frozen food in a qualitative study
Dudley, L., Stevenson, R., Mruk, A., Saluja, S. & Francis, H. M., 2025, (Submitted) (SSRN).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Contamination in Trypophobia: investigating the role of disgust
Hain, S. & Stevenson, R. J., May 2025, In: Cognition and Emotion. 39, 3, p. 635-648 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Psychological induction of interoceptive hunger cues and their effect on food desire
Stevenson, R. J., Saluja, S., Forsyth, J., Rodgers, S., Brasher, S., Ho, V. & Francis, H. M., 1 Feb 2025, In: Appetite. 206, p. 1-15 15 p., 107855.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The nature and origins of crossmodal associations to astringent solutions and basic tastes
Saluja, S., Ciscato, T., Mistry, A., Hummel, T., Spence, C. & Stevenson, R. J., Sept 2025, In: Food Quality and Preference. 130, p. 1-11 11 p., 105518.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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