Research- Social Group
The social psychology group is a large, vibrant, active, and eclectic group of academic staff and postgraduate students. The group has a wide variety of research interests, often with a focus on issues surrounding social justice and the applications of social psychology. The group does research on topics such as:
- Group dynamics and organisational climate
- Intercultural communication
- Interpersonal relationships
- Psychosocial issues in medically assisted reproduction
- Refugees, immigration, and resettlement
- Self and identity
- Stereotyping and prejudice
Cutting across these research interests is a multi-methodological expertise, with group members variously adopting and adapting experimental, survey, and discursive methods. |
STAFF MEMBERS IN THE SOCIAL RESEARCH GROUP
Name |
Main Research Interests |
Paul Bain |
Human values and virtues; lay theories and beliefs; cognitive structure of concepts; psychological essentialism; infrahumanisation. |
| Bonnie Barber |
Adolescent and young adult social relationships across life transitions; long-term benefits of organized sport and activity participation; positive development in divorced families. |
Pia Broderick |
Psychology of fertility and infertility; male and female health issues; attitudes and motivation in human tissue donation; attachment and psychological adjustment in children and adolescents; alternative family formation. |
Ngaire Donaghue |
Future representations of self; motivated cognition; self-concept and affect; implicit theories of self; social representations of consciousness. |
| Tim Kurz |
Environmental Sustainability; Social Construction of Gender; Stereotypes and Prejudice; Discourse Analysis. |
| Anne Pedersen |
Attitudes toward different cultural groups (in particular refugees and Indigenous Australians) and applying such findings practically |
| Max Sully |
Work values; organizational change; conflict management; work/life balance. |
| Craig McGarty |
Bolstering commitment to positive social change through group-based interaction.
The categorization process in social psychology and the processes of stereotype formation and change. Group-based emotions including collective guilt. Public opinion and collective action. |
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