Staff profile

Dr Paul Badcock

Research Fellow

Faculty of Health Sciences

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society

Melbourne (City)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Melbourne, PhD Melbourne

Brief Profile

Paul completed his PhD in psychology at the University of Melbourne in 2007, specialising in mood and mood disorders. Since then, he has worked as a lecturer in adolescent health and wellbeing at the University of Melbourne, and has recently been employed by ARCSHS to work on the second Australian Study of Health and Relationships. His research interests include mental health and illness, adolescent development, public health and the philosophy of psychology.

Recent Publications

Badcock, P.B. (2012). Evolutionary systems theory: A unifying meta-theory of psychological science. Review of General Psychology, 16, 10-23.

Badcock, P. B., Moore, E., Williamson, E., Berk, M., Williams, L. J., Bjerkeset, O., Nordahl, H. M., Patton, G. C., & Olsson, C. A. (2011). Modeling gene-environment interaction in longitudinal data: Risk for neuroticism due to interaction between maternal care and the Dopamine 4 Receptor gene (DRD4). Australian Journal of Psychology, 63, 18-25. 

Badcock, P.B., Pattison, P.E., & Harris, K-L. (2010). Developing generic skills through university study: A case study of arts, science and engineering in Australia. Higher Education, 60, 441-458. 

Badcock, P.B.T., & Allen, N.B. (2007). Evolution, social cognition, and depressed mood: Exploring the relationship between depression and social risk-taking. In J.P. Forgas, M. Haselton, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), The social mind: Evolutionary psychology and social cognition (pp. 125-142). Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.

Allen, N.B., & Badcock, P.B.T. (2006). Darwinian models of depression: A review of evolutionary accounts of mood and mood disorders. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 30, 815-826. 

Allen, N.B., & Badcock, P.B.T. (2006). Genes for susceptibility to mental disorder are not mental disorder: Clarifying the target of evolutionary analysis and the role of the environment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 405-406.

Allen, N. B., & Badcock, P. B. T. (2003). The social risk hypothesis of depressed mood: Evolutionary, psychosocial, and neurobiological perspectives. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 887-913.

Badcock, P.B.T., & Allen, N.B. (2003). Adaptive social reasoning in depressed mood and depressive vulnerability. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 647-670.