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Associate Professor Helen Aucote

Associate Professor (Psychology)
School of behavioural and health sciences

Areas of expertise: social cognition; evolutionary psychology; scholarship of teaching and learning

Phone: 0399533013

Email: helen.aucote@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5672-1227

I was awarded a PhD from Deakin University in 2002. Between 2002-2008 I was employed as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Ballarat. Since 2009 I have work at ACU Melbourne where I am the National Course Coordinator for the undergraduate and honours courses in psychology. My main teaching errors teach introductory psychology, cognitive psychology, research methods and statistics. Broadly, my research interests are in the areas of Social Cognitive, Evolutionary Psychology and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Currently I am investigating the effects of resources scarcity on attitudes and behaviour from an evolutionary psychology perspective. In the area of scholarship of teaching and learnings, I am researching the best practice in providing assignment feedback to students and examining how to academic can support students with mental health concerns.

Select publications

• Rice, S.M., Aucote, H.M., Eleftheriadis, D., & Möller-leimkühler, A.M. (2018). Prevelance and co-occurance of internalizing and externalizing depression symptoms in a community sample of Australian truck drivers. American Journal of Men's Health,12, 74-77. doi: 10.1177/1557988315626262
• Rice, S.M., Aucote, H.M., Möller-leimkühler, A.M., & Amminger, P. (2017) Confirmatory factor analysis of the Gotland male depression scale in an Australian community sample. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 33, 190-195. doi: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000287
• Rice, S.M., Aucote, H.M., Parker, A.G., Alvarez-Jimenez, M., Filia, K.M., & Amminger, G.P. (2017). Men's perceived barriers to help seeking for depression: Longitudinal findings relative to symptom onset and duration. Journal of Health Psychology, 22, 529-536. doi: 10.1177/1359105315605655
• Rice, S.M., Aucote, H.M., Möller-leimkühler, A.M., Parker, A.G., Kaplan, R.A., Seidler, Z., Dhillon, H.M., & Amminger, G.P. (2016). Conformity to masculine norms and the mediating role of internalising shame in men's depression: Findings from an Australian community sample. International Journal of Men's Health, 15, 157-164.
• Rice, S., Fallon, B.J., Aucote, H., Möller-leimkühler, A.M., Treeby, M.S., & Amminge, G.P. (2015). Longitudinal sex differences of externalising and internalising depression symptom trajectories: Implications for assessment of depression in men from an online study. International Journal of Social Psychiartry, 61(3), 236-240. doi: 10.1177/0020764014540149
• Di Benedetto, M., Lindner H., Aucote, H., Churcher, J., McKenzie, S., Croning, N., & Jenkins.E. (2014). Co-morbid depression and chronic illness related to coping and physical and mental health status, Psychology, Health & Medicine, 19, 253-262. doi:10.1080/13548506.2013.803135
• Rice, S., Fallon, B.J., Aucote, H., & Möller-leimkühler, A.M., (2013). Development and validation of the male depression risk scale: furthering the assessment of depression in men. Journal of Affective Disorders, 151, 950-958.
• Aucote, H.M., Miner, A., & Dalhaus, P. (2012). Interpretation and misinterpretation of warning signage: Perceptions of rockfalls in a naturalistic setting. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1-8. DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2011.644247
• Aucote, H.M., Miner, A., & Dalhaus, P. (2010). Rockfalls: Predicting high risk behaviours from beliefs. Disaster Prevention and Management, 19(1), 20-31.
• Aucote, H.M., & Cooper, A. (2009). The relationship between obesity, sedentary activity, and regionality among school children in Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 17, 141-146.
• Cooper, A., & Aucote, H.M. (2009). Measuring the psychological consequences of breast screening: A confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychological Consequences Questionnaire. Quality of Life Research, 18, 597-604.
• Aucote, H.M., & Gold, R.S. (2008). Changing perception of average person's risk does not suffice to change perception of comparative risk. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 13(4), 461-470.
• Cooper, A., Gomez, R., & Aucote, H.M. (2007). The behavioural inhibition system and behavioural approach system (BIS/BAS) scales: Measurement and structural invariance across adults and adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 295-305.
• Aucote, H. M., & Gold, R. S. (2005). Non-equivalence of direct and indirect measures of unrealistic optimism. Psychology, Health, & Medicine, 10(2), 194-20.
• Gold, R. S., & Aucote, H. M. (2003). I'm less at risk than most guys: Gay men's unrealistic optimism about becoming infected with HIV. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 14, 18-23.