Please
join us for two research presentations on the 28th of October by two
scholars from the University of Sydney. Full details below.
These research talks are sponsored by the
school’s Social and Organisational Psychology research group.
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WHEN: Tuesday 28th
October, 11.30-1pm,
WHERE: Keats room, Aviation
building, Callaghan
WHERELSE: video
conferenced to: The Science Offices Meeting room, Ourimbah
WHO/WHAT
FOR:
Karen Gonsalkorale, visiting scholar, University of Sydney, delivering a
research presentations entitled “Now You See it, Now You don’t: Automatic Bias
and Overcoming Bias in Implicit Attitudes” (see abstract and bio below)
WHO/WHAT
FOR:
Andrea van Dommelen, visiting scholar, University of Sydney delivering a research
presentations entitled “Multiple Social Identities in Minority Group Members:
individual and contextual differences” (see abstract and bio below)
Gonsalkorale’s
Abstract
When
implicit measures of attitudes first burst onto the psychology scene, they were
often conceived as uncontaminated reflections of the automatic associations
stored in memory. Many researchers considered these implicit measures to be
revolutionary in their capacity to reveal automatic attitudes that people are
unwilling or unable to express on self-report measures. However, we now know
that performance on implicit attitude measures is influenced both by the nature
of activated evaluative associations and by people’s ability to regulate those
associations as they respond. I will describe a method for separating the
multiple automatic and controlled processes underlying implicit measures, and
discuss how this method can be used to understand the processes responsible for
variability and malleability in implicit attitudes. Specifically, I will
present studies in which we applied the Quad model (Sherman et al, 2008) to
examine variability in implicit attitudes as a function of group membership
(Black vs. White participants) and age (young vs. older participants), and
malleability in implicit attitudes resulting from prejudice reduction training
and alcohol intoxication. The findings indicate that implicit attitude
variability and malleability do not only involve activated associations, and
may not involve associations at all, in some cases. I will wrap up by
discussing the implications of the findings for the measurement and
interpretation of implicit attitudes.
Gonsalkorale’s
Bio
My
research interests include social cognition, stereotyping and prejudice,
intergroup relations, and ostracism. I am currently a Senior Lecturer in the
School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. Prior to joining the
University of Sydney as a Lecturer in 2008, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
University of California, Davis. I received a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) in
2001 and a PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2005.
van
Dommelen’s Abstract
Members of ethnic and
religious minority groups belong to distinct ethnic, religious and national
groups that may differ in group composition, values, norms and attitudes. In
this talk, I will propose a conceptual and operational framework to examine how
minority group members subjectively construe their ingroup in the context of
such multiple, cross-cutting group memberships. I will describe the subjective
combination of multiple social identities in terms of structure (Social
Identity Structure, SIS) and inclusiveness (Social Identity Inclusiveness,
SII), and present findings of three studies using this conceptual
framework. In the first two studies, we assessed SII and SIS in a sample
of Turkish Belgian Muslims (N = 95) and Turkish Australian Muslims (N = 132).
The findings of both studies showed that participants, despite sharing
membership in three specific social groups, varied widely in how they combined
these group memberships in their ingroup construals. More inclusive ingroup
representations predicted how participants felt towards people from other
social groups, including remote groups with whom participants were unlikely to
have contact. In a third study, again using a sample of Turkish Australian
Muslims (N = 143), we examined how ingroup representations are altered after a
threat or reassurance to their religious group identity. We found that
participants were less likely to integrate multiple social identities
in their ingroup construals after the value of their religious group identity
was threatened as opposed to reassured. These findings highlight the need for a
more thorough understanding of individual versus contextual differences in multiple
social identity management in ethnic and religious minority groups.
van
Dommelen’Bio
I completed my
Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Brussels (VUB), in
Belgium (where I am originally from), in 2008. My Master’s dissertation was in
the area of social cognition (stereotype activation upon an encounter with an
atypical target), under supervision of Prof. Vincent Yzerbyt at the University
of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In 2010, I worked with Dr. Katharina Schmid and
Prof. Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford, UK) on a project on social identity
complexity. Later in 2010, I started my PhD research at the University of
Sydney, under supervision of Dr. Karen Gonsalkorale and Prof. Marilynn Brewer.
For my PhD, I studied how people belonging to ethnic and religious minority
groups in Australia, combine their ethnic, religious and national group
memberships into an ingroup construal, and how such ingroup construals relate
to intergroup variables such as outgroup contact and attitudes. I conducted
correlational and experimental studies with community samples of adult and
adolescent Turkish Australian Muslims. I recently completed my PhD and will be
graduating in October 2014. My research interests are social identity,
intergroup relations, acculturation, minorities and refugee mental
health.
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