Social psychology

covers the intrapersonal (self, identity), interpersonal (relationships), and intergroup (prejudice, discrimination) areas of human social thought, feeling, and behaviour

The Social Psychology Research Group is comprised of academic staff and research students interested in how other people shape our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Our focus is broad, covering all of the levels of social psychology.

Additionally, we employ a diversity of methods ranging from cognitive tasks, qualitative and discursive approaches, experimental designs, questionnaire and surveys, longitudinal methods, agent-based modelling and field studies.

People

Staff working in this area include:

 Research interests
Dr April H. BaileyBeliefs about social identities and groups, gender biases, psychological roots of unfair social hierarchies
Dr Alexandra N. FisherSelf and social identity, gender and social inequalities, singlehood and close relationships, mixed methods
Professor Steve LoughnanPerceptions of animals (pets and farmed animals), perceptions of technologies (AIs and robots)
Dr Sarah StantonClose relationships, companion animals (pets), LGBTQIA+ experiences, table-top roleplaying game (TTRPG) processes, emotion and health/well-being
Dr Anne TempletonIntra- and inter-group processes, crowd psychology, behaviour in emergencies
Dr Sue WiddicombeIdentity, the self, culture, qualitative methods
Dr Matti WilksMoral psychology & moral development including moral circle expansion, unusually altruistic groups, effective altruism, naturalness bias, and attitudes towards food technology (cultured meat)

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