Social Justice and Psychology

Social Justice and Psychology: What Is, and What Should Be Winnifred Louis, Ken Mavor and colleagues will have a paper published in the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology on how social psychology struggles with issues of social justice.  The paper is part of a special issue to come out in late 2013. Louis, W. … Read more

Discipline social identification, study norms and learning approach

This paper in Educational Psychology builds on the work of Platow, Mavor and Grace (2013) and examines the impact of students’ normative expectations about learning approaches in their discipline. The paper is in press, published online. Abstract: Adopting a deep approach to learning is associated with positive academic outcomes. In the current paper, we extend this … Read more

Winnifred Louis visits St Andrews

The lab was delighted to host a 2 week visit from Winnifred Louis from the University of Queensland.  Winnifred’s work is best known for her interest in the influence of identity and norms in social decision-making, which she has studied in a wide range of contexts from political activism, peace psychology, health and the environment. … Read more

Quee and Skorich graduation ceremony

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

Skorich and Mavor at the Jena Meeting 2013

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 visits St Andrews

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

Skorich PhD awarded

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

Ken moves to University of St Andrews

After 10 years at the Australian National University, both in Psychology, and the ANU Medical School, Ken Mavor has moved to the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews. The lab will be doing much new research based in Scotland, but also maintaining ties to the ANU.  Many of the group … Read more

Mavor at John C Turner Commemoration Symposium

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

Quee PhD awarded

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