School of Psychology-Dr Anne Pedersen

Dr Anne Pedersen

BPsych Thesis Co-Ordinator
Senior Lecturer

B.A. (Hons.) PhD.

RESEARCH:
I am an applied social psychologist; my main interests involve attitudes toward different cultural groups.

ACTIVITIES:
I am currently involved in research relating to attitudes toward Indigenous Australians, asylum seekers/refugees and Muslim Australians. I am particularly interested in applying such findings on a practical level.

TEACHING INTERESTS:
Psychology: Culture & Community; Applications of Psychology; Social Psychology; Gender & Psychology.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Pedersen, A., & Barlow, F. (2008). Theory to social action: A university based strategy targeting prejudice against Aboriginal Australians. The Australian Psychologist, 43, 148-159.
Field, C., Beven, J., & Pedersen, A. (2008). Ethnicity, attributions for offending behaviour, and judgments of responsibility and severity of sentence. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 15, 119-130.
Pedersen, A., Kenny, M.A., Briskman, L., & Hoffman, S. (2008). Working with Wasim: A convergence of community. Australian Journal of Community Psychology, 20, 57-72.
Hartley, L., & Pedersen, A. (2007). Asylum seekers: How attributions and emotion affect Australians’ views on mandatory detention of ‘the other’. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59(3), 119-131.
Haslam, N., & Pedersen, A. (2007). Attitudes towards asylum seekers: The psychology of prejudice and exclusion. In D.Lusher & N.Haslam (Eds), Yearning to breathe free: Seeking asylum in Australia (pp. 208-218). Sydney: Federation Press.
Leach, C. W., Iyer, A., & Pedersen, A. (2007). Angry opposition to government redress: When the structurally advantaged perceive themselves as relatively deprived. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(1), 191-204.
Pedersen, A., Dudgeon, P., Watt, S., & Griffiths, B. (2006). Attitudes toward Indigenous Australians: The issue of “Special Treatment”. Australian Psychologist, 41(2), 85-94.
Pedersen, A., Watt, S., & Hansen, S. (2006). The role of false beliefs in the community's and the federal government's attitudes toward Australian asylum seekers. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 41(1), 105-124.
Pedersen, A., Walker, I., & Wise, M. (2005). “Talk does not cook rice”: Beyond anti-racism rhetoric to strategies for social action. The Australian Psychologist, 40, 20-30.

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