Harriet Over
Professor, Deputy Head of Department - Research

Profile

Biography

• 2022 –           Professor, University of York
• 2017 –           Associate Professor, University of York
• 2013 – 2017  Anniversary Research Lecturer, University of York
• 2009 – 2013  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute
                          for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
• 2006 – 2009  PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of 
                          Cardiff
• 2005 – 2006  MSc, Social Science Research Methods, University of
                          Cardiff
• 2004 – 2005  Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology, University of
                          Cardiff
• 2000 – 2003  BA History and Politics, University of Sheffield

I am a PI in the Social Origins Lab at the University of York.

Research

Overview

Overview

• Prejudice and discrimination in children and adults
• Online misogyny and its impact on young people
• First impressions from appearance
• The role of dehumanization in explaining intergroup harm
• Social learning and social motivation

Grants

• 2025 - 2030: ERC Consolidator grant HATESHIELD (PI €1,973,814)
• 2024 - 2029: Smart Data Donation Service (Co I £7,600,000)
• 2017 - 2024: ERC Starting grant MINDTOMIND (PI €1,230,000)
• 2018-2021: Philip Leverhulme Prize (PI £100,000)
• 2018: Margaret Donaldson Early Career Prize, British Psychology Society
• 2017: Margaret Mead Award, British Science Association
• 2016 - 2020: Leverhulme Trust Project Grant ‘Harnessing the power of visuo-motor
  fluency to encourage healthy choices’ (Co I, £266,328)
• 2014 - 2017: Future Research Leaders Grant, Economic and Social Research Council
  (PI, £304,500)

Publications

Selected publications

See the York Research Database.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Social and Emotional Development 2
• Social Cognitive Development
• Project and Literature Survey supervision