Dick Stevenson

Dick Stevenson is a Professor at Macquarie University's School of Psychological Sciences and member of the Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre. With a BSc(Hons) in Biological Science from University of London, MSc/DPhil in Experimental Psychology from University of Sussex, he transitioned through postdoctoral roles at CSIRO Food Science, University of Sydney Department of Psychology, and Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research before joining Macquarie in 1998 as Lecturer and becoming Professor in 2010.

• Research Pillars:
  • Food & Eating Behavior
  • Interoception & Hunger Cues
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Applied Experimental Methodology
• Notable Projects:
  • Hippocampal role in food regulation
  • Disease avoidance & stigma
  • Microdosing depression treatment
  • Food perception biases

His recent publications (2025) focus on canned/frozen food biases, trypophobia mechanisms, and interoceptive hunger studies, with collaborative work spanning neuroimaging, clinical trials, and cross-cultural surveys. Stevenson's supervision portfolio includes interdisciplinary research on epilepsy, synesthesia, nutritional neuroscience, and clinical psychology.