Dr Leah Kaufmann

Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences

Areas of expertise: social psychology; personality; prejudice (including racism, sexism, antigay attitudes, anti-fat attitudes and weight stigma); organisational psychology; implicit social cognition; embodied cognition; moral psychology.

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full

ORCID ID:  0000-0003-0034-4068

Phone: +61 3 9953 3015

Email: leah.kaufmann@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

I completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Professor Nick Haslam in 2011 during which I also commenced as a lecturer in psychology at ACU. The units I have taught consistently at ACU include Social PSychology, Personality and Individual Differences, Ethics, Organisational Psychology, and (4th year) Thesis.
My research interests include social inequality arising from characteristics including gender, sexual identity, weight, and migrant status in a range of contexts (e.g., work opportunities, education). I am also interested in impacts of individual differences as a source of cognitions, behaviours, and social consequences (e.g., well-being). My methods include survey, experimental, and implicit measures. In addition, I have recently adopted systematic literature reviewing and meta-analyses as a starting point. My approach involves working collaboratively with colleagues and students on topics within the broad range of my research interests.

Visit Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leah-Kaufmann

Select publications:

Journals

  • Deslandes, C., Kaufmann, L. M., & Anderson, J. R. (2022). A systematic and integrative review of qualitative research exploring experiences of acculturation and education among African-born migrants. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 86, 240-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.12.007
  • Bidstrup, H., Brennan, L., Kaufmann, L. M., & de la Piedad Garcia, X. (2021). Internalised weight stigma as a mediator of the relationship between experienced/perceived weight stigma and biopsychosocial outcomes: a systematic review. International Journal of Obesity, 46, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-021-00982-4
  • Hinton, J. D. X., de la Piedad Garcia, X., Kaufmann, L. M., Koc, Y., & Anderson, j. (2021). A systematic and meta-analytic review of identity centrality among LGBTQ groups: An assessment of psychosocial correlates. Journal of Sex Research, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1967849
  • Kaufmann, L. M., Wheeler, M. A., & Sojo, V. E. (2021). Employment precarity strengthens the relationships between the Dark Triad and professional commitment. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 2493.
  • Beech, O. D., Kaufmann, L. M., & Anderson, J. (2020). A systematic literature review exploring objectification and motherhood. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 44(4), 521-538.
  • Kaufmann, L. M., Sojo, V. E., Genat, A. E., Wheeler, M. A., & Wood, R. E. (2017). Implicit and explicit Motivated Self-Perception as hypothesis-driven self-construal. Personality and Individual Differences, 116, 252-257.
  • Kaufmann, L. M. (2015). Disparity between implicit work-relevant associations and real-world cognitions. Sensoria: A Journal of Mind Brain and Culture, 11(1), 58-69.
  • Kaufmann, L. M., Williams, B., Hosking, W., Anderson, J. R., & Pedder, D. J. (2015). Identifying as in, out, or sexually inexperienced: Perception of sex-related personal disclosures. Sensoria: A Journal of Mind Brain and Culture, 11(1), 28-40.
  • Kashima, E. S., Beatson, R., Kaufmann, L. M., Branchflower, S., & Marques, M. D. (2014). Mortality salience and cultural cringe: The Australian way of responding to thoughts of death. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45(10), 1534-1548.
  • Kaufmann, L. M., & Allen, S. (2014). Adding weight to judgments: The role of stimulus focality on weight-related embodied cognition. Sensoria: A Journal of Mind Brain and Culture, 41-48.
  • Kaufman, L. M. (2012). The Go/No Go Association Task as a new technology of teaching antiprejudice. M. Brown, M. Hartnett, & T. Stewart (Eds.), Future Challenges, Sustainable Futures, 440-448.
  • Williams, B. J., & Kaufmann, L. M. (2012). Reliability of the go/no go association task. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48(4), 879-891.
  • Kashima, Y., Bain, P., Haslam, N., Peters, K., Laham, S., Whelan, J., Bastian, B., Loughnan, S., Kaufmann, L. M., & Fernando, J. (2009). Folk theory of social change. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 12(4), 227-246. Publication received the Misumi Award, from the Japanese Group Dynamics Association.
  • Haslam, N., Ban, L., Kaufmann, L., Loughnan, S., Peters, K., Whelan, J., & Wilson, S. (2008). What makes an article influential? Predicting impact in social and personality psychology. Scientometrics, 76(1), 169-185
  • Haslam, N., Ban, L., & Kaufmann, L. M. (2007). Lay conceptions of mental disorder: The folk psychiatry model. Australian Psychologist, 42(2), 129-137.s
  • Kaufmann, L. M., & Rawlings, D. (2004). The role of personality and musical experiences in shaping music students’ intentions to become performers. In Proceedings of the 8th international conference on music perception and cognition (pp. 478-481).

Books and Chapters

  • Kaufmann, L. M. & Bridgeman, C. (2021). A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions that reduce weight stigma towards self and others. In A. H. Nordstrom & W. Goodfriend (Eds) Innovative sigma and discrimination reduction programs across the world. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • Kaufmann, L. M. & Findlay, B. (2020). How to write psychology research reports and assignments (9th ed.). Pearson.
  • Findlay, B. & Kaufmann, L. M. (2017). How to write psychology research reports and essays (8th ed.). Pearson.

Selected Conferences and talks

  • Kaufmann, L. M. & Ruslins, A. (2017, April 20-22). Male Privilege Awareness as a Sexism Intervention. [Paper Presentation] Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP), Melbourne.
  • Kaufmann, L. M. (2012, May 15). Exploring strategies for changing implicit and explicit racism in Australia. [Accepted Presentation] Expanding Conversations: Social Innovation, Arts and Anti Racism. Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), Sydney.
  • Kaufmann, L. M. (2012, April 12-14). Implicit Racism in Australia. [Paper Presentation] Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP), Adelaide.
  • Kaufmann, L. M. (2011, July 6). Don’t know, won’t tell: The utility of the GNAT (and other implicit measures). Social Psychology Symposium, University of Kent.
  • Kaufmann, L. M. & Haslam, N. O. (2011, July 12-16). Faking the GNAT: Producing stereotype consistent and
    inconsistent gender-role implicit associations. European Association of Social Psychologists (EASP), Stockholm, Sweden.

Projects:

  • The Role of Culture, COVID-19, and Discrimination on African-Born Tertiary Students’ Academic Engagement and Adjustment https://osf.io/srd3u/
  • Women’s Relationship Satisfaction as a Function of Partner’s Gender: A Systematic Review https://osf.io/pbt2h/
  • A Systematic Literature Review of Studies Investigating the Effects of Weight Stigma through Ecological Momentary Assessment Approaches https://osf.io/35j26/

Appointments and affiliations:

  • ACU Branch President, National Tertiary Education Union
  • Society for Australasian Social Psychologists
  • Society for Personality and Social Psychologists
  • Association for Research in Personality

International Journal review panel:

Journal reviewer:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • International Journal of Psychology
  • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
  • SAGE Open
  • Australian Journal of Social Issues
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