Chris Powell

Dr. Chris Powell

Lecturer in Psychology
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Details

  • College: School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Department: Health and Biomedical Sciences
  • Campus: Bundoora West Australia
  • chris.powell@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Chris has been a lecturer at RMIT since 2018. He teaches and researches mainly around individual difference psychology, and is glad to hear from students who would like to research these areas:

- Intelligence
- Personality
- Curiosity
- Improving cognitive function
- Academic achievement
- Systematic review and meta-analysis

Has engaged with several industry partners in the WIL Course BESC1466 Research Project (WOOD., Snoretox)

Supervisor projects

  • Psychometric Asessment of a New Measurement of Belongingness
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • Attachment Styles and Maladaptive Schema: Psychological Wellbeing Factors for Job Searching Behaviour
  • 1 Jan 2024
  • The Negative Impact of Perfectionism on Workplace Mental Health
  • 1 Dec 2023
  • Emotional Intelligence Training of People with ASD
  • 1 Nov 2023
  • Exploring the effects of meditation on mental and cardiometabolic health
  • 4 Jan 2023
  • Cross-cultural Personality and Mental Health
  • 8 Aug 2022
  • Modelling a Revised Social-Cognitive Interpersonal Process Model of Depression
  • 23 Feb 2022
  • Defining and Addressing Research-Level and Therapist-Level Barriers to Virtual Reality Therapy Implementation in Mental Health Settings
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Clusters of Implicit Learning and Educational Performance across Autistic Traits: Electroencephalogram (EEG) and Functional Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Models
  • 1 Jan 2022
  • An Examination of Variation in Social Cognitions in Bullying for Different Participant Roles: A Retrospective of Adults
  • 1 Feb 2019

Teaching interests

Intelligence, personality, intellectual curiosity, cognitive confidence, research methods, quantitative statistics, multiple regression, factor analysis, meta-analysis
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