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Overall, Nickola C.

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Early Life and Educational Background

Nickola was born on December 11, 1974 in Te Kuiti, which is a small rural town in New Zealand. Nickola earned her Ph.D. from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2005 under the guidance of Professor Garth Fletcher.

Professional Career

Nickola Overall has been at the University of Auckland since completing her Ph.D. in 2005. She has authored over 75 publications which have appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Social Psychological and Personality Science. Nickola has served as an associate editor for the Social Psychological and Personality Science and Personal Relationships, and she is on the editorial board of many other journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Research Interests

Nickola’s research focuses on how emotional, attachment, and relationship difficulties...

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  • Overall, N. C., & Hammond, M. D. (2013). Biased and accurate: Depressive symptoms and daily perceptions within intimate relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 636–650.

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  • Overall, N. C., & Simpson, J. A. (2015). Attachment and dyadic regulation processes. Current Opinion in Psychology, 1, 61–66.

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  • Overall, N. C., Simpson, J. A., & Struthers, H. (2013). Buffering attachment avoidance: Softening emotional and behavioral defenses during conflict discussions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 854–871.

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  • Overall, N. C., Girme, Y. U., Lemay, E. P., Jr., & Hammond, M. D. (2014). Attachment anxiety and reactions to relationship threat: The benefits and costs of inducing guilt in romantic partners. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 235–256.

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  • Overall, N. C., Fletcher, G. J. O., Simpson, J. A., & Filo, J. (2015). Attachment avoidance, biased perceptions of negative emotions, and behavioral hostility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 730–749.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Nickola Overall

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Marion Wallace

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Overall, N. (2016). Overall, Nickola C.. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_273-1

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