Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
Ken had the opportunity to present our “Prevalence to Process” model to the medical education group here at St Andrews. The model integrates the social psychological concepts of self complexity, social identity and normative influence into a model of stress and wellbeing in medical students. The talk led to some interesting discussion amongst the group.
Update: We were pleased to have the participation from nearly 400 medical students, primarily in Australia and New Zealand, but also Europe and Asia. We are currently analysing the data but so far we find support for several key features of our self, identity and wellbeing model featured in our recent Medical Education article. We … 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