About the lab

Welcome to the research lab site for Ken Mavor and colleagues.  The lab group spans both St Andrews and the Australian National University (Canberra) and has links with several other groups.  The themes outlined here explore a range of basic and applied research questions associated with the stability and fluidity of social and personal selves, the identity implications of attitudes and ideologies, and the basis of social influence and social action.  These themes find kinship in the work of many colleagues in St Andrews, Canberra and beyond, and some of those links will be explicit in the descriptions on this site. The range of work covered here includes fundamental cognitive processes in social perception, the structure and function of ideologies and contested social attitudes, and implications of self and identity processes for education, wellbeing and social change.

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