Kenneth Mavor

Grant to study Christian IDP’s in Iraq

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We were excited to be collaborating with an American-based NGO, Love for the least: Middle East to cary out a research study on internally displaced Christian’s in Iraq.  There have been two waves of displacement in Iraq; from the Iraq war and then from ISIS. Many people are displaced from southern Iraq, and more recently … Read more

Finding connections in social identity and post-structuralist perspectives

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One of the interesting challenges in the recent edited book on Self and Social Identity  in Educational contexts was the final chapter: The social construction of teachers’ identities: finding connections in social identity and post-structuralist perspectives by Emma Rich, Kenneth I. Mavor and Louisa Webb.  what we tried to do in this chapter was find some … Read more

Social identity in education: the modifying role for perceived norms

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This is a book chapter by Lillian Smyth, Kenneth I. Mavor, Michael J. Platow and Diana M. Grace in our recently published edited book. In this chapter we explore the recent work by ourselves and also Bliuc and colleagues, examining the relationship between discipline-based social identity and approached to learning (deep or surface). In particular we emphasise the … Read more

Self & Social Identity in Educational Contexts

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We are delighted that this edited book is now out and available!  It has been a labour of love for several years but we are very excited to see it come out and to touch upon a number of very important issues in education. See below for the contents and more detail about the book … Read more

Grant awarded by the Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (SMERC)

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We received a grant for just under £10,000 to progress the work on the link between different types of stressors and identity in the medical context into 2017. The project title is: Identity-potent stressors: The interplay of professional (social) identity and specific work-related stressors; and the implications for wellbeing of doctors and medical trainees. This is … Read more

Learning behaviour and outcomes: Social influence and field of study

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This is an article by Lillian Smyth, Kenneth I. Mavor,  and Michael J. Platow published in the Social Psychology of Education (2017). The research reported in this paper was part of Lillian’s PhD project on discipline identification, peer norms and approaches to learning. In this paper we confirm the association of both identity and norms with deep learning approaches as … Read more

Summer interns explore issues of identity complexity and wellbeing

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We were delighted to have four volunteer summer interns working with the lab over the summer – three from St Andrews and a guest all the way from Turkey! The group spend the majority of their time exploring the issues around identity and well-being in the medical context. We also explored different models of self-complexity … Read more

Talamas paper on subtle facial cues to perceived intelligence in JEP:G

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One of the papers form Sean’s PhD has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.  The paper “Eyelid-Openness and Mouth Curvature Influence Perceived Intelligence Beyond Attractiveness” explores the impact of these subtle facial cues and perceived intelligence controlling for the well-known attractiveness halo.  One of the studies dealt with the effect of tiredness … Read more

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