Melanie J Mcgrath
Biographic Data
| ID | 1542036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie J Mcgrath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgrath |
| SIGNATURE | MCGRATH M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5177-778X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Creeping Concept of Trauma
Over the past century the concept of trauma has substantially broadened its meanings in academic and public discourse. We document four directions in which this semantic expansion has occurred at different times: from somatic to psychic, extraordinary to ordinary, direct to indirect, and individual to collective. We analyze these expansions as instances of "concept creep," the progressive inflation of harm-related concepts, and present evidence f…
Broadened Concepts of Harm Appear Less Serious
Harm-related concepts have progressively broadened their meanings to include less severe phenomena, but the implications of this expansion are unclear. Across five studies involving 1,819 American participants recruited on MTurk or Prolific, we manipulated whether participants learned about marginal, prototypical (severe), or mixed examples of workplace bullying (Studies 1 and 3a), trauma (Studies 2 and 3b), or sexual harassment (Study 4). We hyp…
Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to Covid‐19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand
Reducing the spread of infectious viruses (e.g., COVID‐19) can depend on societal compliance with effective mitigations. Identifying factors that influence adherence can inform public policy. In many cases, public health messaging has become highly moralized, focusing on the need to act for the greater good. In such contexts, a person's moral identity may influence behavior and serve to increase compliance through different mechanisms: if a perso…
More confident, less formal: Stylistic changes in academic psychology writing from 1970 to 2016
Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep
“Concept creep” is the gradual semantic expansion of harm-related concepts such as bullying, mental disorder, prejudice, and trauma. This review presents a synopsis of relevant theoretical advances and empirical research findings on the phenomenon. It addresses three fundamental questions. First, it clarifies the characterisation of concept creep by refining its theoretical and historical dimensions and presenting studies investigating the change…
Religion and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz ed. by Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson
Reviewed by: Religion and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz ed. by Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson Michael J. McGrath RELIGION AND SECULAR THEATER IN GOLDEN AGE SPAIN: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF DONALD T. DIETZ. Edited by Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. Ibérica series. New York: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 324. In the introduction to Religion and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of …
Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fiction of Identities
St. John of the Cross: Songs in the Night
REM sleep facilitation of adaptive waking behavior: A review of the literature
REM sleep facilitation of adaptive waking behavior: A review of the literature
REM motivation induced by brief REM deprivation: The influence of cognition, gender, and personality
Prominence of the brain's right-hemisphere information processing and intensity of dream experience are two theoretically related constructs that have been proposed as important psychological aspects of REM sleep. Either view is consistent with the prediction that the effect of REM deprivation will depend in part on the nature of cognitive activity that is initiated at the onset of each REM period and that "substitutes" for the interrupted REM pr…
The Creeping Concept of Trauma
Over the past century the concept of trauma has substantially broadened its meanings in academic and public discourse. We document four directions in which this semantic expansion has occurred at different times: from somatic to psychic, extraordinary to ordinary, direct to indirect, and individual to collective. We analyze these expansions as instances of "concept creep," the progressive inflation of harm-related concepts, and present evidence f…
Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to Covid‐19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand
Reducing the spread of infectious viruses (e.g., COVID‐19) can depend on societal compliance with effective mitigations. Identifying factors that influence adherence can inform public policy. In many cases, public health messaging has become highly moralized, focusing on the need to act for the greater good. In such contexts, a person's moral identity may influence behavior and serve to increase compliance through different mechanisms: if a perso…
REM sleep facilitation of adaptive waking behavior: A review of the literature
REM sleep facilitation of adaptive waking behavior: A review of the literature
REM motivation induced by brief REM deprivation: The influence of cognition, gender, and personality
Prominence of the brain's right-hemisphere information processing and intensity of dream experience are two theoretically related constructs that have been proposed as important psychological aspects of REM sleep. Either view is consistent with the prediction that the effect of REM deprivation will depend in part on the nature of cognitive activity that is initiated at the onset of each REM period and that "substitutes" for the interrupted REM pr…
St. John of the Cross: Songs in the Night
Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fiction of Identities
Religion and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz ed. by Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson
Reviewed by: Religion and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Dietz ed. by Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson Michael J. McGrath RELIGION AND SECULAR THEATER IN GOLDEN AGE SPAIN: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF DONALD T. DIETZ. Edited by Susan Paun de García and Donald R. Larson. Ibérica series. New York: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 324. In the introduction to Religion and Secular Theater in Golden Age Spain: Essays in Honor of …
Harm inflation: Making sense of concept creep
“Concept creep” is the gradual semantic expansion of harm-related concepts such as bullying, mental disorder, prejudice, and trauma. This review presents a synopsis of relevant theoretical advances and empirical research findings on the phenomenon. It addresses three fundamental questions. First, it clarifies the characterisation of concept creep by refining its theoretical and historical dimensions and presenting studies investigating the change…
More confident, less formal: Stylistic changes in academic psychology writing from 1970 to 2016
Broadened Concepts of Harm Appear Less Serious
Harm-related concepts have progressively broadened their meanings to include less severe phenomena, but the implications of this expansion are unclear. Across five studies involving 1,819 American participants recruited on MTurk or Prolific, we manipulated whether participants learned about marginal, prototypical (severe), or mixed examples of workplace bullying (Studies 1 and 3a), trauma (Studies 2 and 3b), or sexual harassment (Study 4). We hyp…
Moral Identity Predicts Adherence to Covid‐19 Mitigation Procedures Depending on Political Ideology: A Comparison Between the USA and New Zealand
Reducing the spread of infectious viruses (e.g., COVID‐19) can depend on societal compliance with effective mitigations. Identifying factors that influence adherence can inform public policy. In many cases, public health messaging has become highly moralized, focusing on the need to act for the greater good. In such contexts, a person's moral identity may influence behavior and serve to increase compliance through different mechanisms: if a perso…
The Creeping Concept of Trauma
Over the past century the concept of trauma has substantially broadened its meanings in academic and public discourse. We document four directions in which this semantic expansion has occurred at different times: from somatic to psychic, extraordinary to ordinary, direct to indirect, and individual to collective. We analyze these expansions as instances of "concept creep," the progressive inflation of harm-related concepts, and present evidence f…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Harm (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 works)