Dr. George Van Doorn
Associate Professor
Campus
Biography
Dr George Van Doorn is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at Federation University Australia. Dr Van Doorn has expertise in perception (e.g. the influence of colour on taste perception) and hegemonic masculinity (popularised as toxic masculinity).
George maintains a strong research program in the areas of perception, personality, and other areas of psychology. He collaborates with several national and international researchers, and has more than 60 research articles. George has given several presentations at national and international conferences, primary and secondary schools, and in the media. His work has been featured in the Distortions of Perception chapter of the eighth edition of the Victorian Certificate of Education Units 1 and 2 Psychology book for Year 11.
George is Academic Editor of the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE. He has supervised over 20 research projects to completion.
Fields of research
- Personality and individual differences
- Social psychology
- Sensory processes, perception and performance
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- Publications
Systema psyches: A temporal taxonomy of mental phenomena
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2025.113531
Syntactic complexity of written text as a structural linguistic marker of depressive symptoms
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jad.2026.121199
From Successful Ageing to Ageing Well: A narrative review
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- DOI reference: 10.1093/geront/gnae109
Adverse childhood experiences and infidelity: The mediating roles of anxious and avoidant attachment styles
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/famp.13088
Childhood abuse and prodromal psychosis: the mediating roles of grandiose and vulnerable narcissism
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/17522439.2024.2434515
Adverse and positive childhood experiences and their associations with dark personality traits
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.jrp.2025.104583
Cycles of Abuse: The Mediating Role of Emotional Abuse on the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Depressive Symptoms
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- DOI reference: 10.1007/s40653-025-00722-0
Sexual problems among a representative sample of Australian men who have experienced physical and emotional intimate partner abuse
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- DOI reference: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdaf093
Mindful Non-Judging of Inner Experience Predicts Lower Problem Gambling
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- DOI reference: 10.4309/UGWO7373
High (in)fidelity: gender, the Dark Tetrad, and infidelity
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/14681994.2023.2220279
Development of an online skills training platform for autistics adults: A participatory approach
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.rasd.2024.102407
The influence of Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences on facets of empathy
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106993
Victims of Hate Crime in Rural Communities
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4324/9781003132691-19
Playing Dead: The Depiction and Mistreatment of Animals in Video Games
Vulnerable dark traits mediate the association between childhood adversity and suicidal ideation
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111959
Prospective associations between traditional masculinity and cannabis, hard drug, and alcohol use in Australian emerging adult men
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111877
Visual communication via the design of food and beverage packaging
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- DOI reference: 10.1186/s41235-022-00391-9
Prospective associations between hegemonic masculinity and incident depression/depressive symptoms: Results from a national sample of Australian emerging adult men
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110899
Dark Triad traits as predictors of adherence to traditional masculine norms in men
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- DOI reference: 10.19090/pp.2021.4.539-569
Hegemonic masculinity, gender, and social distance: the mediating role of perceived dangerousness
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/09589236.2020.1844000
Daddy issues: Friends rather than fathers influence adult men's hegemonic masculinity
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110467
A preliminary investigation of the effect of ethical labeling and moral self-image on the expected and perceived flavor and aroma of beer
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/beverages7020042
Modes of Delivering Psychotherapy: Investigating Technology
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3432-8.ch034
The influence of training and expertise on the multisensory perception of beer: A review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103778
Dominance or deceit: The role of the Dark Triad and hegemonic masculinity in emotional manipulation
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110160
Happy Hour? A Preliminary Study of the Effect of Induced Joviality and Sadness on Beer Perception
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/beverages6020035
Systema Temporis: A time-based dimensional framework for consciousness and cognition
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.102766
Longitudinal association between social anxiety disorder and incident alcohol use disorder: results from two national samples of US adults
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- DOI reference: 10.1007/s00127-018-1569-z
Time dilation and acceleration in depression
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.02.003
Bayes, time perception, and relativity: The central role of hopelessness
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.concog.2019.01.012
The visual appearance of beer: A review concerning visually-determined expectations and their consequences for perception
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.foodres.2019.108661
Emotional Awareness and Decision-Making in the Context of Computer-Mediated Psychotherapy
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- DOI reference: 10.1007/s41666-019-00050-7
Masculinity might be more toxic than we think: The influence of gender roles on trait emotional manipulation
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.09.042
Factor Structure of Teacher Ratings of the ODD Symptoms in Children
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- DOI reference: 10.1007/s11126-017-9527-6
The Pepsi Paradox: A review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.11.007
The effect of schizotypy on the relationship between women's red clothing and perceived sexual interest
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/ajpy.12197
Down the rabbit hole: assessing the influence of schizotypy on the experience of the Barbie Doll Illusion
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/13546805.2018.1495623
Netflix and Chill? What Sex Differences Can Tell Us About Mate Preferences in (Hypothetical) Booty-Call Relationships
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/1474704918812138
Does the shape of the drinking receptacle influence taste/flavour perception? A review.
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/beverages3030033
Emotionality in Computer-Mediated Environments: Analyzing the Emotional Content of Psychotherapeutic Communication
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- DOI reference: 10.24982/jois.1711017.002
Modes of Delivering Psychotherapy: Investigating Technology
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- DOI reference: 10.4018/IJRQEH.2017070101
Does the shape of a cup influence coffee taste expectations? A cross-cultural, online study
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.10.013
Cloninger's personality dimensions and ADHD: A meta-analytic review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.11.054
Glass shape influences the flavour of beer
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2017.05.009
Stress Associated with Commencing University: A Comparison of Metropolitan and Rural and Regional Students
Decoupling of Haptic Components Suggests that Somatosensory Percepts are Differentially Processed in Working Memory
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- DOI reference: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2015.217.00295
Direct comparison of the haptic and visual horizontal-vertical illusions using traditional figures and single lines
Active and Passive Movements Give Rise to Different Judgments of Coldness
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- DOI reference: 10.1068/p5439
Haptic and visual size judgements in virtual and real environments
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1109/WHC.2005.65
Active versus passive touch in three dimensions
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1109/WHC.2005.20
Red is no Warmer than Blue: A Challenge to the Semantic Coding Hypothesis
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- DOI reference: 10.1068/ic849
Is J the new K? Initial letters and brand names
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- DOI reference: 10.1057/s41262-016-0007-3
Visual and haptic influence on perception of stimulus size
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- DOI reference: 10.3758/APP.72.3.813
A precision-of-information explanation of sensory dominance
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- DOI reference: 10.1504/IJAIP.2011.043429
Capture of kinesthesis by a competing cutaneous input
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- DOI reference: 10.3758/s13414-012-0327-7
Research note: Induced out-of-body experiences are associated with a sensation of leaving the body
The effectiveness of an ecodrive course for heavy vehicle drivers
The importance of temperature information in virtual training environments
Haptics can 'lend a hand' to a bionic eye
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-642-14064-8_46
The more they move the less they know: Cutaneous capture of kinesthesis?
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1109/HAPTIC.2012.6183787
Cognitive load can explain differences in active and passive touch
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-642-31401-8_9
Cutaneous inputs yield judgments of line length that are equal to, or better than, those based on kinesthetic inputs
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-642-31404-9_5
The misperception of length in vision, haptics and audition
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-642-31404-9_10
Supraliminal vibrotactile stimulation does not facilitate visual vection
The inability of supraliminal tactile stimuli to influence illusory self-motion
Using traditional horizontal-vertical illusion figures and single lines to directly compare haptics and vision
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1109/WHC.2013.6548489
Biases in visuo-haptic matching of curvature
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1109/WHC.2013.6548467
A reverse horizontal-vertical illusion? Auditory length perception and its relevance to virtual environments
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1109/SMC.2013.50
Face to facebook: social media and the learning and teaching potential of symmetrical, sychronous communication
Fitting a bionic eye to the body: How haptics can help
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- DOI reference: 10.1504/IJAACS.2013.056822
Touch Can Be as Accurate as Passively-Guided Kinaesthesis in Length Perception
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- DOI reference: 10.1163/22134808-00002428
Can you tickle yourself if you swap bodies with someone else?
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.10.009
Colour-Temperature Correspondences: When Reactions to Thermal Stimuli Are Influenced by Colour
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- DOI reference: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091854
Does the colour of the mug influence the taste of the coffee?
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- DOI reference: 10.1186/2044-7248-3-10
Illusory Upward Self-Motion Results in a Decrease in Perceived Room Temperature
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- DOI reference: 10.4236/psych.2013.411118
Attenuated self-tickle sensation even under trajectory perturbation
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.06.016
Latte Art Influences both the Expected and Rated Value of Milk-Based Coffee Drinks
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/joss.12159
Modification of magnitude estimations in thermotactile perception during self-generated and externally generated movements
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1068/p5367
Cognitive Load Can Explain Differences in Active and Passive Touch
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1007/978-3-642-31401-8_9