Professor Drew Nesdale
Teacher's Certificate, B Arts (Honours), M Arts, PhD
Professor, School of Psychology
Contact details for Professor Drew Nesdale
Research expertise
- Causes and consequences of aggrression and violence
- Inter-group prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping
- Peer group rejection and its effects
- School bullying
Current teaching areas
- Professor Nesdale’s main teaching areas are in social and developmental psychology
- Supervises student research projects (honours, masters, doctorate) on issues related to his research interests
Publications
- Nesdale, D., Maass, A., Kiesner, J., Durkin,K., Griffiths, J., and Ekberg, A. (2007). Effects of peer group rejection, group membership, and group norms, on children’s outgroup prejudice. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Special issue: Social Identity and Intergroup Attitudes in Children and Adolescents, 31,526-535.
- Nesdale, D. (2007). Peer groups and children’s school bullying: Scapegoating and other group processes. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 388-392.
- Nesdale, D. and Pickering, K. (2006). Teachers’ reactions to children’s aggression. Social Development, 15, 109-127.
- Nesdale, D., and Naito, M. (2005). Individualism-collectivism and the attitudes to school bullying of Japanese and Australian students. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 36, 1-20.
- Nesdale, D., Maass, A., Durkin,K., and Griffiths, J. (2005). Group norms, threat, and children’s racial prejudice. Child Development, 76(3), 652-663.