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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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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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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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Name, shame, and blame: The biopsychosocial cost of weight stigma during adolescence
Magson, N., Rapee, R. & Stevenson, D.
1/01/20 → 30/11/21
Project: Other
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A review of the phenomenology, aetiology and treatment of animal phobia and insights for biophobia
Norberg, M. M., Visvalingam, S., Stevenson, R. J. & Saluja, S., 7 Jul 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: People and Nature. 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Diet impacts on brain and mind
Stevenson, R. J. & Francis, H. M., Feb 2023, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (CUP). 481 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system
Anja Juran, S., Tognetti, A., Lundström, J. N., Kumar, L., Stevenson, R. J., Lekander, M. & Olsson, M. J., 2023, In: Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 11, 1, p. 8-17 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Effects of sickness manipulation on disgust and pleasantness in interpersonal touch
Gruhl, A., Saluja, S., Stevenson, R. & Croy, I., Jul 2023, In: Psychological Research. 87, 5, p. 1454–1465 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Facial disgust in response to touches, smells, and tastes
Saluja, S., Croy, I., Gruhl, A., Croy, A., Kanbaty, M., Hellmann, A. & Stevenson, R. J., 12 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Emotion. 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review