Dr Jacob Dye

Position: Lecturer
Discipline: Psychology
Location: Mt Helen Campus, Building H Room 224
Phone: +61 3 5327 6650
Email: j.dye@federation.edu.au

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy – University of Newcastle – 2020

Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education – Federation University - 2022

Bachelor of Psychology (Hons – Class 1) – University of Newcastle – 2015

Teaching

Courses

  • Bachelor of Psychological Sciences
  • Bachelor of Psychological Sciences (Honours)
  • Master of Professional Psychology
  • Master of Psychology (Clinical)

Units

  • Clinical Dissertation (PSYCM 7122)
  • Research for Practice (PSYCM 7020)
  • Psychology Research: Review (PSYCB 3108)
  • Psychology Undergraduate Placement (PSYCB 3111)
  • Psychological Research Methods (PSYCP 6014)

Biography

Jacob Dye is an expert in psychology working in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing as well as a member of the Collaborative Evaluation and Research Centre and the Health Innovation and Transformation Centre at Federation University. Jacob currently coordinates the Master of Psychology (Clinical) dissertation program as well as coordinating and teaching across all of Feds Psychology courses. After surviving sepsis, Jacob uses his expertise in trauma research and his lived experience of medical trauma to inform roles in the Australian Government’s Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the ‘Commission’) as a consumer representative for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Advisory Committee and a Researcher/Survivor Partner/Advocate on a variety of projects with Sepsis Australia, Grampians Health, and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society. In addition, Jacob researches and advocates for interventions to reduce childhood adversity and trauma as well as trauma resulting from interpersonal violence and victimisation.

Areas of expertise

Jacob began his career in medical administration and research at the Sydney Adventist Hospital in Sydney Australia, while simultaneously completing his PhD in the psychology of victimisation, personality disorders, and emotional response at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Since completing his PhD, Jacob has focused on the predictors and outcomes of a variety of traumatising experiences as well as the predictors of perpetrating acts that traumatise others. Although Jacob’s research and expertise falls broadly under the banner of psychological trauma, it can be further delineated into three categories:

  1. Childhood and Relational Trauma – Here Jacob focuses on the predictors and outcomes of experiencing trauma during childhood and in the context of relational abuse. Jacob’s expertise in this area focuses on the ways in which traumatic experiences can shape psychological outcomes later in life. These outcomes include shifts in personality, behaviour, and psychological wellbeing.
  2. Medical Trauma – Here Jacob focuses on Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) and Post Sepsis Syndrome and the associated cognitive and psychological effects of experiencing Sepsis, ICU admissions, and medical trauma.
  3. Perpetration of Traumatising Behaviours – Following from his PhD, here Jacob focuses on the psychological and environmental predictors of perpetrating violence, abuse, and neglect, and victimising others. Jacob’s expertise here centres around the influence of early life experiences and environments on the development of deficits in empathy, behavioural control and inhibition, and healthy social and interpersonal behaviours.

Research interests

  • Post Intensive Care Syndrome and Post Sepsis Syndrome
  • Trauma informed interventions
  • Childhood adversity, development and life history theory
  • Relational abuse and victimisation
  • Personality disorder and dysfunction
  • Evolutionary behavioural sciences

Supervision

Present doctoral students.

Kate Wilson – Childhood adversity, the vulnerable Dark Triad and relational abuse – Associate Supervisor

Erin Harcourt – Risk and protective factors for psychological aspects of PICS – Associate Supervisor

Publications

Book chapters

Dye. J., & Burke, D., (2019). Victims of Violence. In Shackelford, T. K., & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Switzerland, Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1791-1

Dye. J., & Marshall, P., (2019). Dominance and the Threat or Use of Force. In Shackelford, T. K., & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Switzerland, Springer Nature.

Dye. J., & Solomon, E., (2019). Problem of Cheating. In Shackelford, T. K., & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Switzerland, Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1210-1

Refereed journal articles

Fletcher, R., Campbell, L., Sved Williams, A., Rawlinson, C., Dye, J., Baldwin, A., May, C. and StGeorge, J. (2018). SMS4 perinatal parents: designing parenting support via text messages for mothers with severe mental illness (SMI) and their partners. Advances in Mental Health, 17(1), pp.85-95. doi: 10.1080/18387357.2018.1550367

March, E., Antunovic, J., Poll, A., Dye, J., & Van Doorn, G. (2023). High (in) fidelity: gender, the Dark Tetrad, and infidelity. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2023.2220279

Van Doorn, G., Dye, J., & de Gracia, M. (2021). Daddy issues: Friends rather than fathers influence adult men's hegemonic masculinity. Personality And Individual Differences, 171, 110467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110467

Van Doorn, G., & Dye, J. (2021). Dark Triad traits as predictors of adherence to traditional masculine norms in men. Primenjena Psihologija, 14(4), 539–569. https://doi.org/10.19090/pp.2021.4.539-569

Wilson, K., Van Doorn, G., & Dye, J. (2023). Vulnerable dark traits mediate the association between childhood adversity and suicidal ideation. Personality and Individual Differences, 202, 111959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111959

Refereed conference proceedings

Dye, J., & Burke, D. (2017, April). Eye-tracking allows for methodological advancement in the immediate self-report of emotional experience. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology, Shoal Bay, Australia.

Dye, J., & Burke, D. (2017, November). Eye-tracking allows for methodological advancement in the immediate self-report of emotional experience. Poster presented at the University of Newcastle Psychology Research Conference, Newcastle, Australia.

Dye, J., & Burke, D. (2019, June). More than a feeling: Are psychopathic traits associated with diminished recall of affective facial expressions when associated with individual identities? The presentation was given at the 6th Annual Australasian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference, Newcastle, Australia. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29722.90564

Dye, J., Cavallaro, L., Finos, A., Elmir, R., Dowler, K., Morrow, A., & Coote, S., (2019, December). Psychopathic Traits as a Fast Life Strategy: Some Outcomes. The presentation was given at the 2nd Annual Australasian Society for Human Behaviour and Evolution Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Fletcher, R., Campbell, L., Sved Williams, A., Rawlinson, C., Dye, J., Baldwin, A., May, C., & StGeorge, J. (2018, May). SMS4PP support for perinatal parents: Parenting support via text messages for mothers with severe mental illness (SMI) and their partners. Poster presented at the 16th WAIMH World Congress, Rome, Italy.

Wilson, K., Van Doorn, G., & Dye, J. (2022, July). Vulnerable Dark Traits Mediate the Association Between Childhood Adversity and Suicidal Ideation. Presentation at Australian Childhood Foundation’s International Childhood Trauma Conference, Melbourne, Australia

Wilson, K., Van Doorn, G., & Dye, J. (2023, May). Vulnerable Dark Traits Mediate the Association Between Childhood Adversity and Suicidal Ideation. Presentation and poster presented at Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy Early Career Event, Online, Gathertown.

Publication editor/reviewer

Section Editor; Shackelford, T. K., & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Switzerland, Springer Nature.

Reviewer; Australasian Congress for Personality and Individual Differences

Reviewer; Personality and Individual Differences

Reviewer; Primenjena psihologija

Reviewer; Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Associations

  • Sepsis Australia Consumer Advocacy Group
  • Health Innovation and Transformation Centre
  • Collaborative Evaluation and Research Group
  • Scientific Society for the Study of Psychopathy
  • Australasian Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience
  • Australasian Society for Human Behavioural Ecology