Dr Natalie Goulter

Dr. Natalie Goulter is a Lecturer at Flinders University, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer within the Salivary Bioscience Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, and an Adjunct Professor within the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Natalie is a Member of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology Consortium, and a Member of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. She is also an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, and the International Journal of Behavioral Development.

Natalie’s research program aims to advance the understanding, prediction, and prevention of externalising psychopathology (e.g., aggression, impulsivity) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits (i.e., shallow affect and empathy) in young people. Specifically, her research aims to: (a) elucidate early etiological profiles contributing to the emergence of externalising psychopathology and CU traits, including prenatal experiences, parenting behaviours, and emotional processing; (b) understand specific biological systems (focusing on neuroendocrine, inflammatory, and psychophysiological indices) related to the development and maintenance of externalising psychopathology and CU traits; (c) apply diverse methodologies (e.g., micro [intensive real-time] and macro [long-term panel] longitudinal methods) and analytic approaches (e.g., dynamic modeling, integrative data techniques) to better characterise the persistence of externalising psychopathology and CU traits; and (d) mobilise knowledge from this developmental work to inform and evaluate interventions targeting externalising psychopathology and CU traits.

For a complete publication list, see here.