Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
Ken had the opportunity to visit ANU for a busy week of meetings and catch-ups. The main focus was on Kathy McNeill (who submitted her thesis this week) and Lillian Smyth (who is submitting in January), but also included meetings with Daniel Skorich and Dora Sharp-Davidson about ongoing projects as well as catching up with … Read more
Kathy submitted her PhD in Clinical Psychology today just in time for a well-deserved holiday break. The thesis is titled “An Investigation of Self-Structure, Social Identity and Norms in Medical Student Wellbeing”. She explores the unique issues for wellbeing facing medical students, what can be learned from applying the broader social psychology literature on self, … Read more
McNeill, K. G., Kerr, A, and Mavor, K. I. (2014) Perspectives on Medical Education Kathy McNeill has had her first, first-author paper published from her PhD work on identity and medical student wellbeing. Congratulations Kathy! We also continue to work with Annelise Kerr, who is a medical student at the ANU, and did her Medical … Read more
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.
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
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
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
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
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