Nickola Overall Explained

Nickola Overall
Birth Place:Te Kūiti, New Zealand
Discipline:Psychology
Thesis1 Title:Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards
Thesis1 Url:https://hdl.handle.net/10092/4772
Thesis1 Year:2005

Nickola Christine Overall (born 1974) is a New Zealand academic, and is a professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, specialising in relationship, family and couples psychology. She is especially interested in communication strategies to overcome conflict.

Early life and education

Overall was born in Te Kūiti in 1974 and completed a PhD titled Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards at the University of Canterbury, supervised by Garth Fletcher.[1]

Academic career

After completing her doctorate, Overall joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.[2] [3]

Overall's research focuses on healthy relationships, and how to achieve them, or as she describes it, "I study why relationships screw us up and what we can do about it".[4] This involves researching topics such as emotional regulation, attachment insecurity, attitudes to power, and sexist attitudes.[5] [6] She has also studied the effect of lockdowns on family relationships.[7] Overall is especially interested in communication strategies used by couples in relationships to overcome conflict. Overall's research has found that most people in a relationship want to change something about their partner, but few have success in doing so and trying in the wrong way can negatively affect the relationship.[8]

Overall was a principal investigator on a 2017 Marsden grant Conflict recovery in families: Why inevitable conflict does not have to be detrimental, in collaboration with Annette Henderson and Elizabeth Peterson.[9] Overall has also received research funding from the Auckland Medical Research Foundation and the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust.

Overall has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Honours and awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards . Overall . Nickola . PhD thesis . UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury . 2005. 10092/4772 .
  2. Web site: University of Auckland REACH lab . Nickola Overall .
  3. Web site: University of Auckland . Academic profile: Professor Nickola Overall . 2024-03-29 . profiles.auckland.ac.nz.
  4. Web site: Take 10 with... Nickola Overall – The University of Auckland . 2024-03-29 . www.auckland.ac.nz.
  5. Web site: Nickola Overall . 2024-03-29 . Association for Psychological Science – APS . en-US.
  6. Web site: 11 January 2021 . Member spotlight: Nickola Overall SPSP . 2024-03-29 . spsp.org.
  7. Web site: The idea of a new normal is a mistake, say wellbeing researchers . 2024-03-29 . tewahanui.nz.
  8. Web site: 2024-03-30 . You can change your partner – but beware . 2024-03-29 . NZ Herald . en-NZ.
  9. Web site: Search Marsden awards 2008–2017 . 2024-03-29 . Royal Society Te Apārangi.
  10. Web site: Fellows SPSP . 2024-03-29 . spsp.org.
  11. Web site: APS Fellows . 2024-03-29 . Association for Psychological Science – APS . en-US.
  12. Web site: LLC . Sanibel Technologies . IARR – Award Winners . 2024-03-29 . iarr.org.
  13. Web site: Rusbult Young Investigator Award SPSP . 2024-03-29 . spsp.org.