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Nickola Overall
Nickola Overall
Born	1974 (age 50–51); Te Kūiti, New Zealand
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Canterbury
Thesis	Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards (2005); ;
Doctoral advisor	Garth J O Fletcher
Academic work
Discipline	Psychology
Institutions	University of Auckland

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.^[1]^[2]

Academic career

After completing her doctorate, Overall joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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".^[5] This involves researching topics such as emotional regulation, attachment insecurity, attitudes to power, and sexist attitudes.^[6]^[7] She has also studied the effect of lockdowns on family relationships.^[8] Overall is especially interested in communication strategies used by couples in relationships to overcome conflict.^[6] 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.^[9]

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.^[10]^[4] Overall has also received research funding from the Auckland Medical Research Foundation and the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust.^[4]

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.^[2]

Honours and awards

Fellow of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology^[11]
Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science^[12]
2016 Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research^[4]^[13]
2014 Caryl Rusbult Close Relationships Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to relationship science, awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology^[14]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Nickola Overall (Q56516218).

Chris Sibley; Lara M Greaves; Nicole Satherley; et al. (4 June 2020). "Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown on trust, attitudes toward government, and well-being". American Psychologist. doi:10.1037/AMP0000662. ISSN 0003-066X. PMID 32496074. Wikidata Q96115786.
Paula R Pietromonaco; Nickola Overall (23 July 2020). "Applying relationship science to evaluate how the COVID-19 pandemic may impact couples' relationships". American Psychologist. doi:10.1037/AMP0000714. ISSN 0003-066X. PMID 32700937. Wikidata Q97676406.
Garth J O Fletcher; Jeffry A. Simpson; Lorne Campbell; Nickola Overall (1 January 2015). "Pair-bonding, romantic love, and evolution: the curious case of Homo sapiens". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 10 (1): 20–36. doi:10.1177/1745691614561683. ISSN 1745-6916. PMID 25910380. Wikidata Q38440723.
Nickola Overall; Garth J O Fletcher; Myron D Friesen (1 December 2003). "Mapping the intimate relationship mind: comparisons between three models of attachment representations". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 29 (12): 1479–1493. doi:10.1177/0146167203251519. ISSN 0146-1672. PMID 15018680. Wikidata Q59486811.
Garth J O Fletcher; Jacqueline M Tither; Claire O'Loughlin; Myron D Friesen; Nickola Overall (1 June 2004). "Warm and homely or cold and beautiful? Sex differences in trading off traits in mate selection". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 30 (6): 659–672. doi:10.1177/0146167203262847. ISSN 0146-1672. PMID 15155031. Wikidata Q53342259.
Nickola C Overall; Garth J O Fletcher; Jeffry A Simpson; Chris Sibley (1 March 2009). "Regulating partners in intimate relationships: the costs and benefits of different communication strategies". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 96 (3): 620–639. doi:10.1037/A0012961. ISSN 0022-3514. PMID 19254108. Wikidata Q48294461.
Nickola C. Overall; Kelsey L. Deane; Elizabeth R. Peterson (December 2011). "Promoting doctoral students' research self-efficacy: combining academic guidance with autonomy support". Higher Education Research and Development. 30 (6): 791–805. doi:10.1080/07294360.2010.535508. ISSN 0729-4360. Wikidata Q125213708.

References

^ Overall, Nickola (2005). Why do people try to change their intimate relationships?: the regulation function of ideal standards (PhD thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. hdl:10092/4772.
^ ^a ^b ^c Overall, Nickola (2016), "Overall, Nickola C.", in Zeigler-Hill, Virgil; Shackelford, Todd K. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–2, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_273-1, ISBN 978-3-319-28099-8, retrieved 29 March 2024
^ University of Auckland REACH lab. "Nickola Overall".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d University of Auckland. "Academic profile: Professor Nickola Overall". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "Take 10 with... Nickola Overall – The University of Auckland". www.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Nickola Overall". Association for Psychological Science – APS. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "Member spotlight: Nickola Overall | SPSP". spsp.org. 11 January 2021. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "The idea of a new normal is a mistake, say wellbeing researchers". tewahanui.nz. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "You can change your partner – but beware". NZ Herald. 30 March 2024. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "Search Marsden awards 2008–2017". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "Fellows | SPSP". spsp.org. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "APS Fellows". Association for Psychological Science – APS. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ LLC, Sanibel Technologies. "IARR – Award Winners". iarr.org. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "Rusbult Young Investigator Award | SPSP". spsp.org. Retrieved 29 March 2024.