School of Psychology- Dr Ngaire Donaghue

Dr Ngaire Donaghue

Honours Program Chair
Senior Lecturer

B.Sc. (Hons.), Ph.D.

RESEARCH:
My research interests are centred around ways in which various social discourses around gender are incorporated into women's self-representations, and the relationships between self-representation and goal formation and goal striving. I am also interested in the relationships between gendered self-representation and entitlement, and the rhetorical uses of emotion statements in making and responding to justice claims.

ACTIVITIES:
Ngaire is currently working on projects concerning the relationships between people’s implicit theories of self and their emotional responses to self-discrepencies. She is also establishing a research program examining changes in the function of possible selves in the transition to retirement, with emphasis on the ways in which self-representations are related to depression and other negative emotions.

TEACHING:
Intro Social Psychology; Psych: Personality Processes & Functions; Psychology of Motivation & Emotion; Postgraduate Research Seminar.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Augoustinos, M., Walker, I. & Donaghue, N. (2006)Social cognition: An integrated introduction(2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Journal articles
Donaghue, N. (in press). Body satisfaction, sexual self-schemas and subjective well-being in women. Body Image: An International Journal of Research.
Donaghue, N., & Smith, N. (2008). Not half bad: Self and other judgements of body size and attractiveness across the life span. Sex Roles, 58, 875-882.
Donaghue, N., & Walker, I. (2007). Contact sports: Judgements of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal football league players’ performance. South African Journal of Psychology, 37, 771-782.
Lewis, V., & Donaghue, N. (2005). The embeddedness of women’s body image: A study of eating-disordered and non eating-disordered women. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 10, 199-208.
Kurz, T., Donaghue, N., Rapl ey, M., & WalkerI. (2005). The ways people talk about natural resources: discursive strategies as barriers to environmentally sustainable behaviour. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 603-620.
Kurz, T., Donaghue, N., & Walker, I. (2005). Utilizing a social-ecological framework to promote water and energy conservation: A field study. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1281-1300.
Donaghue, N. & Fallon, B. J. (2003). Gender-role self-stereotyping and the relationship between equity and satisfaction in close relationships. Sex Roles, 48, 217-230.
Donaghue, N. (2000). Implicit theories of self as moderators of the relationships between self-discrepancies and affect. Paper presented to the 1st annual meeting of the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Nashville, Feb 2000.
Lewis, V. & Donaghue, N.(1999). Self-deprecation and estimates of body size in women. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 89, 165-171.

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