Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
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Daniel and Ken attended the 15th Jena meeting at castle Oppurg from the 4th to the 7th of July 2013. The theme for the meeting this year was ‘The puzzle of “me” and “I”: Individual and Collective Perspectives on Self and Identity’. The Jena meeting is a very productive environment for cutting edge work and theory development set … Read more
Emma Thomas is currently on a prestigious Discovery Early Career Research fellowship and based at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. Her research focuses on the role of identity processes and emotion particularly in collective action. Some of her work involves advantaged group members acting to overcome injustice through campaigns such as “Water for Life” … Read more
We congratulate Daniel Skorich on the award of his PhD today! His thesis entitled “Motivated but confounded tacticians: Revisiting the relationship between categorization and cognitive resources” returns to an important debate about the relationship between the availability of cognitive resources and phenomena such as stereotyping and categorical face perception. Daniel’s thesis challenges the dominant view … Read more
A collection of John Turner’s past and present colleagues and students gathered at University House, ANU, Canberra to discuss John’s massive contribution to the theory of intergroup relations through Social Identity and Self Categorization Theories. (John Turner pictured right). Ken Mavor was one of 21 invited speakers for the 3 day symposium, and spoke on … Read more
We congratulate Michelle Quee on the award of her PhD! Her thesis entitled “Multiple Categorization: Choices and Constraints in the Perception of Individuals and Groups” makes use of the ‘who-said-what’ paradigm to explore the role of comparative fit, normative fit, and perceiver readiness factors in multiple categorization at a range of levels of perceptual hierarchy. … Read more
On the role of discipline-related self-concept in deep and surface approaches to learning among university students This was the first paper in what has become the LACES project. We explore the self and identity implications of deep and surface learning and suggest some reciprocal relationships between learning style, grades, and discipline identity. Platow, M. J., Mavor, K. … Read more
It is now clear that RWA should be analysed at the component level (aggression, conventionalism, and submission). Although new scales are being developed, many rearchers have existing data sets using older versions of the RWA scale. We have developed a 14-item scale that captures the RWA components based on Altemeyer’s (1996) version of the scale. … Read more
Cognitive load privileges memory-based over data-driven processing, not group-level over person-level processing The first paper from Daniel Skorich’s PhD has been published online at BJSP. This establishes the empirical support for our view that group information is not used in preference to person information due to resource limitations. This paper overturns a classic assumption of the cognitive … Read more
Social identities facilitate and encapsulate action-relevant constructs: A test of the social identity model of collective action Thomas, E. F., Mavor, K. I. & McGarty, C. (2012). Social identities facilitate and encapsulate action-relevant constructs: A test of the social identity model of collective action. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 15(1) 75-88. Abstract Three studies explore the recently elaborated … Read more