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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 Research School of Psychology (Building 39) Mailing Address Research School of Psychology (Building 39) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia	On this page... About Me Research and Supervision Interests Research Students Selected Publications Other Research Activities

About Me
I am a social psychologist with a strong background in research methods and statistics. I am currently located in the ANU medical school where I am involved primarily in assessment processes and policy. In the medical school, I am conducting research on changes in identity and self-complexity and their relationship with well-being in medical students, as well as continuing my other research programs on basic categorisation and identity processes. I currently supervise several PhD students based in both psychology and the medical school. I am located in the Peter Baume building (opposite Psychology) in the Medical Education Unit.
Research and Supervision Interests
My research interests fall into several 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 and opinions 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. Identity can also be seen as part of a multi-dimensional understanding of the self. I am examining new ways of measuring the concept of self-complexity, and the links between self-complexity, stability and change, resilience and well-being.
Research Students
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. Caroline Blink (PhD student completed 2011) Processes in long-term attitude change in relation to Reconciliation. 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 Lillian Smyth (PhD student) Kathy McNeill (PhD student - Clinical) Angela Nguyen (Honours student 2012) Annelise Kerr (Medical student project 2011/2012)
Selected Publications
Platow, M. J., Mavor, K. I. & Grace, D. M.. (in press). On the role of discipline-related self-concept in deep and surface approaches to learning among university students. Instructional Science. Skorich, D.P., & Mavor, K. I. (in press). Cognitive load privileges memory-based over data-driven processing, not group-level over person-level processing. British Journal of Social Psychology Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., Turner, J. C., Branscombe, N., Mavor, K. I., & Batalha, L. (2012). Social identity and personality processes: Non-Aboriginal Australian identity and neuroticism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42(2) 252-262. Thomas, E. F., Mavor, K. I. & McGarty, C. (2012). Social identities facilitate and encapsulate action-relevant constructs: A test of the social identity model of collective action. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations 15(1) 75-88. Obst, P. L., White, K. M., Mavor, K. I. & Baker, R. K. (2011) Social identification dimensions as mediators of the effect of prototypicality on intergroup behaviors. Psychology 2(5), 426-432. Mavor, K. I., Louis, W. R., & Laythe, B. (2011). Religion, prejudice and authoritarianism: Is RWA a boon or bane to the psychology of religion? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50(1), 22-43. Mavor, K. I. (2012). Step by step, till you dance with the concepts. One step further. In D. Westen, L. Burton, & R. Kowalski, Psychology: Australian and New Zealand Edition 3rd Ed: Wiley. Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Branscombe, N. R., Mavor, K. I., Bizumic, B., & Subacic, E. (2010). Further integration of social psychology and personality: Choice or Necessity? European Journal of Personality, 24, 501-514 Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Branscombe, N. R., Mavor, K. I., Bizumic, B., & Subacic, E. (2010). Interactionism in personality and social psychology: An integrated approach to understanding the mind and behaviour. European Journal of Personality, 24, 458-482 Thomas, E. F., McGarty, C. & Mavor, K. I. (2010). The social psychology of 'Making Poverty History': Motivating anti-poverty action in Australia. Australian Psychologist, 45(1), 4-15. 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.
Other Research Activities
Selected Presentations Mavor, K. I., Skorich, D. P., Quee, M. V., & Louis, W. R. (2009). What is an exemplar? Descriptions of category elements at different levels of abstraction. Paper presented at Social Psychology Spring Workshop on Categorization, Australian National University, Australia. Mavor, K. I., Skorich, D. P., Farquharson, J., & Ellison, T. (2009). Context, covariation and complexity in gender and person subcategories. Paper presented at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference, Melbourne, Australia. 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 and Research Project Students Scott Reynolds (Honours Student 2011( Nicole Edwards (Honours student 2010) Erin O'Reilly (Medical student project 2009/2010) Lillian Smyth (Honours Student 2009) Exploring the dynamic formation and influence of identity and norms in interactive groups 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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