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Dr Ken MAVOR
BA, BSc, Dip Psych, PhD Qld
Associate
Email : Ken.Mavor@anu.edu.au
Phone : (02) 612 ---
Fax : (02) 612 50499
Office Location
Department of Psychology (Building 39)
Mailing Address
Department of Psychology (Building 39) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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On this page...Research and Supervision Interests
Research Students
Selected Publications
Other Research Activities
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Research and Supervision Interests
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My research interests fall into two main areas :
- Categorisation and identity processes in the perceptions of groups, persons, and other social objects. Under this banner, I am involved in a number of research projects examining categorisation processes at the group, person, and intra-personal level, the link between category salience and attribution, and the interaction of social and personal identity processes. Several PhD Students and Honours students are working on these topics.
- The structure and functions of social attitudes and how attitudes define identities. Under this banner, I am interested in the relationships between a variety of social attitudes including attitudes toward social groups and moral issues, and the way in which clusters of attitudes are used to define social and personal identities. In particular, I have an interest in attitudes toward groups defined by race, sexual orientation, and moral attitudes towards abortion and euthanasia, and links with religious orientation and identity.
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Research Students
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Katrina Anderson (PhD completed 2009)
Self-complexity revisited: Important qualifications to the stress buffering hypothesis.
Emma Thomas (PhD completed 2009)
Aligning emotion, identity and beliefs to boost commitment to international development and cooperation.
Daniel Skorich (PhD student)
Cognitive load in person and social stereotyping
Michelle Quee (PhD student)
Examining causal inference and intra-individual variability: how perceivers use category salience to resolve inconsistent information
Kerry O'Brien (PhD student)
Social identity, norms, and political attitudes
Caroline Blink (PhD student; co-supervisor with Prof. McGarty)
Processes in long-term attitude change in relation to Reconciliation.
Lillian Smyth (Honours student 2009)
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Selected Publications
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Thomas, E. F., McGarty, C. & Mavor, K. I. (in press). The social psychology of 'Making Poverty History': Motivating anti-poverty action in Australia. Australian Psychologist.
Mavor, K. I., Louis, W. R., & Sibley, C. G. (2010). A bias-corrected exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of right-wing authoritarianism: Support for a three-factor structure. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(1), 28-33.
Thomas, E. F., McGarty, C. & Mavor, K. I. (2009b). Transforming 'apathy into movement': The role of prosocial emotions in motivating action for social change. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13(4), 310-333.
Thomas, E. F., McGarty, C. & Mavor, K. I. (2009a). Aligning identities, emotions and beliefs to create commitment to sustainable social and political action. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13(3), 194-218.
Mavor, K. I., Macleod, C. J., Boal, M. J. & Louis, W. R. (2009). Right-wing authoritarianism, fundamentalism and prejudice revisited: Removing suppression and statistical artefact. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 592-597.
Mavor, K. I., & Gallois, C. (2008). Social group and moral orientation factors as mediators of religiosity and multiple attitude targets. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 47(3), 361-377.
Mavor, K. I. (2008). Entry on "Homosexuality". In V. N. Parillo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Problems: Sage.
Eggins, R. A., Reynolds, K. J., Oakes, P. J., & Mavor, K. I (2007). Citizen participation in a deliberative poll: Factors predicting attitude change and political engagement. Australian Journal of Psychology, 59(2), 94-100
Hornsey, M. J., Blackwood, L., Louis, W. R., Fielding, K., Mavor, K. I, Morton, T., O’Brien, A., Paasonen, K. E., Smith, J., White, K. M. (2006). Why do people engage in collective action? Revisiting the role of perceived effectiveness. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36(7), 1701-1722.
Mavor, K. I. (2006). Learning about research in psychology: It's all about relationships. One Step Further. In D. Westen, L. Burton, & R. Kowalski, Psychology: Australian and New Zealand Edition: Wiley.
Louis, W. R., Mavor, K. I. & Terry, D. J. (2003). Reflections on the statistical analysis of personality and norms in war, peace, and prejudice: Are deviant minorities the problem? Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 3(1), 189-198.
Bain, J. D., & Mavor, K. I. (2002). Collaborative teachback with a statistical cognitive tool: A formative evaluation. Proceedings of the ED-MEDIA World conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia, and telecommunications.
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Other Research Activities
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Selected Presentations
Mavor, K. I., Louis, W. R., Skorich, D. P. & Quee, M. V. (2008). Revisiting the entitativity of persons and groups: Putting social targets on a level playing field. Paper presented at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Mavor, K. I. (2008). Using ideological pathways to explain attitudes toward reproductive and parenting rights for lesbians & gay men. Departmental seminar, School of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Mavor, K. I. (2007). An extended multinomial processing model for fit-based category confusion studies in social psychology. Paper presented at the Australian Mathematical Psychology Conference, Canberra, Australia.
Mavor, K. I. (2007). Religiosity, authoritarianism and social Ideologies. Paper presented at Social Psychology Spring Workshop on Personality and Politics, Australian National University, Australia.
Mavor, K. I. (2007). Understanding attitudes toward reproductive and parenting rights for lesbians and gay men. Paper presented to the Research School of Social Sciences, Political Science Seminar Series, Australian National University, Australia.
Mavor, K. I. (2004). Apples, oranges, and ... tomatoes? Comparing groups, persons, and other social entities and the identities that go with them. Paper presented at the 12th Brisbane Symposium on Social Identity, Brisbane, Australia.
Mavor, K. I., & Reynolds, K. J. (2003). Categorisation, homogeneity, and attribution: Out-person homogeneity and the actor-observer effect. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
Recent Honours Students
Kerry O'Brien (Honours Student 2007)
Render unto Caesar: A social identity account of the influence of religion in politics
Andrew Frain (Honours Student 2007)
Motivational Primacy in the face of an increasingly complex model. Does it stand up?
Mia Cotan (Honours student 2006)
Fluidity in implicit associations for the personal self: Testing a self-categorisation theory model of intra-personal variability.
Toby Ellison (Honours student 2006)
Perceived covariation of individuals: Comparative context and order effects.
Michelle Quee (Honours student 2006)
Making sense of intra-individual behavioural variability: Using category salience to construct meaning in person impression formation.
Miranda Boal (Honours student 2005)
Women and the Church: Exploring the relationship between religiosity, prejudice and the ambivalent sexism inventory.
Cari Goodwin (Honours student 2005)
Holy Matrimony? An examination of the religious and political basis of attitudes to same-sex marriage.
Rebekah Page (Honours student 2005)
Making sense of behavioural variability: The application of self-categorisation theory to the understanding and organisation of intra-individual behavioural variation.
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