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. HTML PeopleStaff working in this area include: Image Research interestsApril H. BaileyBeliefs about social identities and groups, gender biases, psychological roots of unfair social hierarchiesSteve LoughnanPerception of animals (anthropomorphism), dehumanization, objectificationSarah StantonRomantic relationships, affective processes, health and well-beingAnne TempletonIntra- and inter-group processes, crowd psychology, and antecedents to political behaviourSue WiddicombeIdentity, the self, culture, qualitative methodsMatti WilksMoral psychology & moral development including moral circle expansion, unusually altruistic groups, effective altruism, naturalness bias, and attitudes towards food technology (cultured meat) Postgraduate study PhD and MSc by research programmes This article was published on 2024-10-14
HTML PeopleStaff working in this area include: Image Research interestsApril H. BaileyBeliefs about social identities and groups, gender biases, psychological roots of unfair social hierarchiesSteve LoughnanPerception of animals (anthropomorphism), dehumanization, objectificationSarah StantonRomantic relationships, affective processes, health and well-beingAnne TempletonIntra- and inter-group processes, crowd psychology, and antecedents to political behaviourSue WiddicombeIdentity, the self, culture, qualitative methodsMatti WilksMoral psychology & moral development including moral circle expansion, unusually altruistic groups, effective altruism, naturalness bias, and attitudes towards food technology (cultured meat)
