PSYC1030x Team
Professor Blake McKimmie
Blake is the course coordinator for PSYC1030x. Blake won a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2010 and a University of Queensland Teaching Excellence Award in 2016. He currently teaches a large introductory psychology course and a second year elective about psychology and law. He is a leading instructor of the award-winning course: CRIME101x.
Dr Wen Wu
Wen was the project officer for PSYC1030x. Wen graduated with her PhD from the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland. Her research examines the theory behind the development of expertise in everyday judgement and decision making. Wen was the winner of the faculty round of the Three Minute Thesis in 2012. She has coordinated the course "Judgement and Decision Making”.
Mx Anna Morris
Anna was the Learning Designer for PSYC1030x. She has developed massive open online courses at the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITALI) at The University of Queensland. She received an Award for Excellence in Leadership 2016 - Highly Commended, from The University of Queensland as part of the UQx project team. She has been a lecturer in the creative industries and was formerly a medical student.
Lecturers
Professor
Blake McKimmie
Blake won a Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2010 and a University of Queensland Teaching Excellence Award in 2016. He currently teaches a large introductory psychology course and a second year elective about psychology and law. His research focuses on jury decision-making including the influence of gender-based stereotypes and the influence of different modes of evidence presentation. He is also interested in group membership and attitude-behaviour relations and how group membership influences thinking about the self. He is a leading instructor of the award-winning course: CRIME101x.
Professor
Roy Baumeister
Roy is a social and personality psychologist who seeks to understand the big picture of what human life is all about. His six hundred scientific publications have explored topics that include self and identity, the need to belong, violence and aggression, sexuality, emotion, free will, consciousness, gender differences, self-control and willpower, morality, culture, and how people find meaning in life.
Interviewees
Professor Alexander Haslam
- The Zimbardo Prison Study
- The Milgram Experiment
Professor Jolanda Jetten
- The Asch Experiment
- Stereotyping and race
Professor Barbara Masser
- Attitude-behaviour relations
- Hostile and benevolent sexism
Associate Professor Jason Tangen
- The role of expertise
Professor Bill Von Hippel
- Deception
- Self-deception
- Ostracism
Associate Professor Courtney Von Hippel
- Stereotype threat
Lecture script contributions
Professor Blake McKimmie
- Social cognition
- Attitudes
- Persuasion
- Non-verbal communication
Professor Matthew Hornsey
- Non-verbal communication
- Persuasion
- Prejudice and stereotyping
- Aggression and prosocial behaviour
Professor Roy Baumeister
- The self
Lecture script and slide development
Professor Blake McKimmie
Dr Wen Wu
Mx Anna Morris
Project management and finance
Catherine Bennett
Stella Winn
Media team
Matthew Petersen
Arun Ketsirat
Dean Law
Daniel Greenup
Laura Packer
Maxine Shewan
Technical team
Aneesha Bakharia
Sai Sun
Ankith Konda
Special thanks
Neville Smith
Wendy Chalmers
Linda McDonald
Mark Horswill
Jennifer English
Meg Cridland
Karen Perkins
Tamara Butler
Anthea Groessler
UQx Director
John Zornig