Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
Ken recently gave the local friday afternoon school seminar in St Andrews. The title of the talk was “The person categorisation heresies: Persons AS categories, and implications for a unified theory of social categorisation”. St Andrews is an ideal place for us to pursue this work, given the great intellectual atmosphere and intellectual interest shared … Read more
Ken presented a talk at the BPS social psychology section conference in Exeter. The talk titled “Challenging the effect of cognitive load on the efficiency of categorization versus individuation” presented several studies from Daniel Skorich’s PhD on impression formation and cognitive resources. The conference was also a good opportunity to continue some collaborations with several … Read more
Michelle Quee and Daniel Skorich both celebrated their ANU PhD graduation in July with suitable pomp. Michelle and Daniel have both been examining different aspects of the Self and Social Categorisation project; Michelle based on a series of “Who-said-What” paradigm studies, and Daniel has been focusing on impression formation paradigms. Both theses make a substantial … Read more
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
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
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