Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
Bashar came to St Andrews supported by Kuwait University, after completing a Masters in the US. The focus of Bashar’s project has been to explore the links between different understandings of religiosity, political factors, and attitudes toward other religious and political groups. The thesis title is “Religiosity and prejudice in a Western and Islamic context”. … Read more
Congratulations to Kerry for completing his PhD changes in time for the recent graduation ceremony. Kerry explored several ways of using framing to either make particular identities more salient, or to influence the meaning of those identities. Kerry’s PhD is titled “Framing issues and identities: Aligning the content of group identity with the meaning of issues … Read more
We were excited to be collaborating with an American-based NGO, Love for the least: Middle East to cary out a research study on internally displaced Christian’s in Iraq. There have been two waves of displacement in Iraq; from the Iraq war and then from ISIS. Many people are displaced from southern Iraq, and more recently … Read more
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