Professor Tom Denson
Ph.D., Social Psychology, 2007
M.A., Social Psychology, 2004
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
M.A., Research Psychology, 2002
California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
B.A., Psychology and Germanic Languages and Literature, 1997
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
I am a Professor in the School of Psychology at UNSW. I am an experimental social-personality psychologist. My primary research focus is on the causes, consequences, and prevention of anger-driven aggression.
Anger and aggression are serious problems throughout the world. The research in my lab has helped us understand the causes of these phenomena and how they can be regulated. My students, international and domestic collaborators and I attack the problem from behavioral and biological p...
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2021-2023 Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP200101845), Toward an understanding of whether and how humility reduces anger. AUD$308,404. Harmon-Jones, E., Harmon-Jones, C., Denson, T. F., & Schmeichel, B.
2018 Awarded Fellow Status in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for “longstanding contribution to SPSP and the field of Personality and Social Psychology”.
2016 University of New South Wales Postgraduate Supervisor Award, University-wide, student-nominated award.
2015 University of New South Wales, Science Faculty Staff Excellence in Teaching Award, AUD$1,500 (Based on student evaluation scores).
2015 Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
2012 Winner New South Wales Young Tall Poppy Science Award
2012 Society of Australasian Social Psychologists’ Early Career Award
2011 Association for Psychological Science “Rising Star”
2009 University of New South Wales, Science Faculty Staff Excellence in Research Award, AUD$1,500
2009 University of New South Wales, Australian Psychological Society’s Most Outstanding Lecturer in Psychology (UNSW) Award. Voted on by Bachelor of Psychology and Honours students. This was the first year the award was offered.
My work has appeared in high-profile international media. I have also discussed my research in Australian television and radio.
I have authored 5 articles on aggression for The Conversation, which attracted over 275,000 readers.
I am an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute.