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.
Staff working in this area include:
| Research interests | |
| April H. Bailey | Beliefs about social identities and groups, gender biases, psychological roots of unfair social hierarchies |
| Alexandra N. Fisher | Self and social identity, gender and social inequalities, singlehood and close relationships, mixed methods |
| Steve Loughnan | Perception of animals (anthropomorphism), dehumanization, objectification |
| Sarah Stanton | Romantic relationships, affective processes, health and well-being |
| Anne Templeton | Intra- and inter-group processes, crowd psychology, and antecedents to political behaviour |
| Sue Widdicombe | Identity, the self, culture, qualitative methods |
| Matti Wilks | Moral 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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