Rate My Professor Liz Temple

Her research interests span psychosocial wellbeing; psychological stress, distress, and trauma; drug and alcohol use and addiction; health and health-promoting behaviours; personality, the self, and identity development; gender equality; and psychological testing, assessment, psychometrics, and research methodology. She supervises Honours and PhD students in these areas and coordinates the Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Advanced), PSYC371/471 Individual Differences and Assessment, while teaching in PSYC363 Psychopathology. Key publications include the edited book Clearing the Smokescreen: The Current Evidence on Cannabis Use (2015); 'A theoretical approach to resolving the psychometric problems associated with the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory' (2016, European Journal of Psychological Assessment); 'Cannabis use and anxiety: Is stress the missing piece of the puzzle?' (2014, Frontiers in Psychiatry); 'Physical and mental health perspectives of first year undergraduate rural university students' (2013, BMC Public Health); 'The 'Grass Ceiling': Limitations in the literature hinder our understanding of cannabis use and its consequences' (2011, Addiction); and early works such as 'Taste development: Differential growth rates of tongue' (2002, Developmental Brain Research). Temple's scholarship investigates interrelationships between psychological functioning, social and emotional wellbeing, physical health, and societal factors.