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Dr. George Van Doorn

Associate Professor

Campus

Churchill Campus

Biography

Dr George Van Doorn is an associate professor in psychology at Federation University Australia. He has expertise in perception (e.g. the influence of colour on taste perception) and childhood adversity. 

George maintains a strong research program in the areas of perception, personality, masculinity, childhood adversity, emerging adulthood, gambling, and other areas of psychology. He collaborates with several national and international researchers, and has more than 80 research articles.

George has given several presentations at national and international conferences, primary and secondary schools, and in the media. His work has 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 has supervised over 50 honours students’ research projects to completion. 

Fields of research

  • Personality and individual differences
  • Social psychology
  • Sensory processes, perception and performance

More about George

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University  
  • Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours), Federation University
  • Graduate Certificate (Higher Education), Monash University
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Monash University
  • Bachelor of Science (Psychology), Monash University 

Areas of interest

  • Personality and individual differences
  • Social psychology
  • Sensory processes, perception and performance 

Grants

  • ARC Training Centre for Optimal Ageing. Australian Research Counsel ($4,580,000)

Current

  • PhD student, Federation University, ‘Identifying linguistic markers of depression in digital contexts through the use of Natural Language Processing’, principal supervisor. 
  • PhD student, Federation University, ‘Enhancing functional capacity, wellbeing, and quality of life: Developing a digital mental health intervention for middle- and older-aged adults with chronic mental health conditions’, principal supervisor. 
  • Federation University, ‘Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS): An investigation of the risk and protective factors associated with psychological outcomes of PICS’, principal supervisor. 
  • Federation University, ‘Understanding digital health literacy and related training needs of adults aged 45+ years to co-develop and prototype tailored training solutions’, principal supervisor. 
  • Federation University, ‘Trauma transformed: Evaluating the efficacy of TF-CBT and EMDR in mitigating Post-Intensive Care Syndrome symptoms’, associate supervisor. 

Past

  • PhD student, Federation University, ‘Understanding ageing well in Australia: Insights from the older adults and survivors of the holocaust’, principal supervisor. 

  • Psychology
  • Research methods and statistics
  • Developmental psychology
  • Perception 

Specialist roles

  • Chair, Human Research Ethics Committee 

Health Innovation and Transformation Centre

George is part of the Health Innovation and Transformation Centre, which aims to answer complex global healthcare questions that impact the health and wellbeing of our regional, national and international communities.
  • Publications

Systema psyches: A temporal taxonomy of mental phenomena

Syntactic complexity of written text as a structural linguistic marker of depressive symptoms

Positive Childhood Experiences and a Dimensional Approach To Childhood Adversity: Associations with Adult Loneliness

Identifying structural linguistic markers of depression in written text: A narrative review of language analysis methods