STAFF PROFILE
Dr Chris Powell
Position:
Lecturer in Psychology
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Health and Biomedical Sciences
Phone:
+61399257710
Email:
chris.powell@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Bundoora West
Contact me about:
Research supervision
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
Tuesday to Friday, by appointment
- Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology), University of Adelaide, 2017
- Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence (University of Adelaide, 2017)
- Outstanding PhD Thesis Award (ACPID, 2017)
- ROSE Award (Recognition of Outstanding Student Experience) for BESC1466, 2019
- STEM College Early Career Teaching Award, 2019
Has engaged with several industry partners in the WIL Course BESC1466 Research Project (WOOD., Snoretox)
Intelligence, personality, intellectual curiosity, cognitive confidence, research methods, quantitative statistics, multiple regression, factor analysis, meta-analysis
2 PhD Completions7 PhD Current Supervisions
- Powell, C. (2024). Associations between the dark tetrad and political orientation: A systematic review with meta-analysis In: Personality and Individual Differences, 218, 1 - 12
- Gunnoo, A.,Powell, C. (2023). The Association Between Pornography Consumption and Perceived Realism in Adolescents: A Meta-analysis In: Sexuality and Culture, 27, 1880 - 1893
- Chan, J.,Powell, C.,Collett, J. (2022). Profiling Hoarding Within the Five-Factor Model of Personality and Self-Determination Theory In: Behavior Therapy, 53, 546 - 559
- Dry, M.,Due, C.,Powell, C.,Chur-Hansen, A.,Burns, N. (2018). Assessing the Utility of an Online Adaptive Learning Tool in a Large Undergraduate Psychology Course In: Psychology Teaching Review, 24, 24 - 37
- Powell, C.,Nettelbeck, T.,Burns, N. (2017). The incremental validity of intellectual curiosity and confidence for predicting academic performance in advanced tertiary students In: Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 51 - 56
- Powell, C.,Nettelbeck, T.,Burns, N. (2016). Deconstructing intellectual curiosity In: Personality and Individual Differences, 95, 147 - 151
- Powell, C.,Nettelbeck, T. (2014). Intellectual curiosity may not incrementally predict academic success In: Personality and Individual Differences, 64, 7 - 11