Dr Elise Devlin

Dr Elise Devlin

  • Qualifications

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

    Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)

  • Awards & Achievements

    Best of the Best Mini-Poster Discussion, Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (2017) 

    Faculty of Health Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award (2015)

    Faculty of Health Sciences Divisonal Scholarship, The University of Adelaide (2013-2016)

    Commonwealth Scholarship, The University of Adelaide (2009-2011)

    Golden Key International Honours Society Membership

  • Research Interests

    My major area of interest is the impact of response expectancies, placebo, and nocebo effects in health - particularly for patients being treated for a cancer diagnosis.

    Other areas of interest include cognitions in health care, mindfulness, and perfectionism

  • Publications

    Devlin, E.J., Denson, L. A., & Whitford, H. S. (2017). Cancer treatment side effects: A meta-analysis of the relationship between response expectancies and expereinces. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

    Devlin, E.J., Whitford, H. S., & Denson, L. A. (2016). Exploring positively framed information as a method for reducing response expectancy formation and subsequent expereince of side-effects: A randomised trial. Poster presentation at the 5th Australian POsitive Psychology abd Wekkbeing Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 22-24 September.

    Devlin, E.J., Whitford, H. S., & Denson, L. A. (2016). Exploring information 'priming' as a method for reducing response expectancy formation and subsequent expereince of side-effects: A randomised controlled trial. Oral presentation at the 31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP. Yokohama, Japan, 24-29 July

  • Professional Interests

    Early intervention Autism therapy - Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA), Senior Therapist

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Entry last updated: Tuesday, 5 Feb 2019