{{Short description|New Zealand professor of psychology}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox academic | name = Nickola Overall | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = {{#statements:P18}} | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1974}} | birth_place = Te Kūiti, New Zealand | death_date = {{#statements:P570}} | death_place = {{#statements:P20}} | other_names = | discipline = Psychology | workplaces = {{#statements:P108}} | patrons = | alma_mater = {{#statements:P69}} | 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 | doctoral_advisor = {{#statements:P184}} | academic_advisors = {{#statements:P1066}} | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{#statements:P166}} | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }} '''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.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards |last=Overall |first=Nickola |type=PhD thesis |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |url=https://hdl.handle.net/10092/4772 |date=2005|hdl=10092/4772 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Overall |first=Nickola |title=Overall, Nickola C. |date=2016 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences |pages=1–2 |editor-last=Zeigler-Hill |editor-first=Virgil |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_273-1 |access-date=2024-03-29 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_273-1 |isbn=978-3-319-28099-8 |editor2-last=Shackelford |editor2-first=Todd K.|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
== Academic career ==
After completing her doctorate, Overall joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland REACH lab |title=Nickola Overall |url=https://relationships.auckland.ac.nz/our-people/nickola-overall/}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |title=Academic profile: Professor Nickola Overall |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/n-overall |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}}</ref>
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".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Take 10 with... Nickola Overall – The University of Auckland |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/our-research/take-10-with/take-10-with-psychology/take-10-with-nickola-overall.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=www.auckland.ac.nz}}</ref> This involves researching topics such as emotional regulation, attachment insecurity, attitudes to power, and sexist attitudes.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Nickola Overall |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/rising/nickola-overall.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Association for Psychological Science – APS |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=11 January 2021 |title=Member spotlight: Nickola Overall {{!}} SPSP |url=https://spsp.org/news/member-spotlights/nickola-overall |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=spsp.org}}</ref> She has also studied the effect of lockdowns on family relationships.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The idea of a new normal is a mistake, say wellbeing researchers |url=https://tewahanui.nz/health/the-idea-of-a-new-normal-is-a-mistake,-say-wellbeing-researchers |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=tewahanui.nz}}</ref> Overall is especially interested in communication strategies used by couples in relationships to overcome conflict.<ref name=":2" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-30 |title=You can change your partner – but beware |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/you-can-change-your-partner-but-beware/RQHVPQDC54OU5LKSJ5MEGMRNTU/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search Marsden awards 2008–2017 |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/awarded-grants/search-marsden-awards/ |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Overall has also received research funding from the Auckland Medical Research Foundation and the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust.<ref name=":1" />
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.''<ref name=":0" />
== Honours and awards ==
* Fellow of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellows {{!}} SPSP |url=https://spsp.org/membership/fellows |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=spsp.org}}</ref> * Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Fellows |url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/fellows |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=Association for Psychological Science – APS |language=en-US}}</ref> * 2016 Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=LLC |first=Sanibel Technologies |title=IARR – Award Winners |url=https://iarr.org/award-winners.html |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=iarr.org}}</ref> * 2014 Caryl Rusbult Close Relationships Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to relationship science, awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rusbult Young Investigator Award {{!}} SPSP |url=https://spsp.org/membership/awards/earlycareer/rusbult-young-investigator-award |access-date=2024-03-29 |website=spsp.org}}</ref>
== Selected works == {{scholia}} * {{Cite Q|Q96115786}} * {{Cite Q|Q97676406}} * {{Cite Q|Q38440723}} * {{Cite Q|Q59486811}} * {{Cite Q|Q53342259}} * {{Cite Q|Q48294461}} * {{Cite Q|Q125213708}}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3H9m00yCg The behaviours of people with attachment anxiety]'' | PhD: Unpacked, interview with Nickola Overall, via YouTube * ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HdcgrySfyk Dr Nickola Overall on the impact of gender roles in parenting]'', Interview of Nickola Overall by Michael Laws on The Platform, via YouTube {{Authority control}}
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