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Dr Boris BIZUMIC
PhD

Senior Lecturer

Email : Boris.Bizumic@anu.edu.au
Phone : (02) 612 54488
Fax : (02) 612 50499

Office Location

Room 208, Research School of Psychology (Building 39)

Mailing Address

Research School of Psychology (Building 39)
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
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About Me
Research and Supervision Interests
Current Teaching
Research Students
Selected Publications
Professional Memberships

About Me

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Ph.D. in Psychology

 

Research and Supervision Interests

Ethnocentrism, prejudice, group processes, personality, narcissism, attitudes, authoritarianism, cross-cultural research, psychometrics, scale development

 

Current Teaching

PSYC3026 - Personality and the Assessment of Individual Differences (Course coordinator and lecturer)

PSYC2001 - Social Psychology (Course coordinator and lecturer)

 

Past Teaching:

PSYC1004 - Psychology II: Understanding People in Context (2007-2012)

PSYC1005 - Life Issues: Applying Psychology (2010-2011)

PSYC2001 - Social Psychology (2009-2011)

PSYC3023 - Special Topics in Psychology (2009-2011)

 

Research Students

CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS

Amanda Kenny (DPsych), Elizabeth Huxley (Ph.D.), Conal Monaghan (Ph.D), Liam Tucker (Honours), Philip Mullens (Honours), Juliet Tanuwira (Honours)


PAST RESEARCH STUDENTS

Ayndri De Soysa (Honours, 2012)

Narumi Iino, Elizabeth Huxley and Conal Monaghan (Honours, 2011)

Amanda Kenny and Ashley Dunne (Honours, 2010)

Ben Meyers, Maddeline Mooney and Tim Howle (Honours, 2009; Tim Howle's thesis was awarded the Australian Psychological Society's Psychologists for Peace Project Award)

Sarah Ashton and Rashi Goenka (Honours, 2008)

Stephanie Best and Beatrice Kajtar (Honours, 2007)
 

Selected Publications

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Bizumic, B., Stubager, R., Mellon, S., Van der Linden, N., Iyer, R., & Jones, B. M. (in press). On the (in)compatibility of attitudes toward peace and war. Political Psychology. doi:10.1111/pops.12032

Duckitt, J., & Bizumic, B. (in press). Mutlidimensionality of right-wing authoritarian attitudes: Authoritarianism-Conservatism-Traditionalism. Political Psychology.
doi:10.1111/pops.12022

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2012). What is and is not ethnocentrism? A conceptual analysis and political implications. Political Psychology, 33, 887-909. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00907.x

Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K., J., & Meyers, B. (2012). Predicting social identification over time: The role of group and personality factors. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 453–458. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.009

Bizumic, B. (2012). Theories of ethnocentrism and their implications for peacebuilding. In O. Simic, Z. Volcic, & C. R. Philpot (Eds.), Peace psychology in the Balkans: Dealing with a violent past while building peace (Peace psychology book series) (pp. 35-56). New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-1948-8_3

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, 252-262. doi:10.1002/ejsp.1841

Van der Linden, N., Bizumic, B., Stubager, R., & Mellon, S. (2011). Social representational correlates of attitudes toward peace and war: A cross-cultural analysis in the US and Denmark. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 17, 217-242. doi:10.1080/10781919.2011.587176

Duckitt, J., Bizumic, B., Krauss, S., & Heled, E. (2010). A tripartite approach to right wing authoritarianism: The authoritarianism-conservatism-traditionalism model. Political Psychology, 31, 615-815. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00781.x

Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Branscombe, N. R., Mavor, K. I., Bizumic, B., & Subasic, E. (2010). Further integration of social psychology and personality psychology: Choice or necessity? European Journal of Personality, 24, 501-514. doi:10.1002/per.784

Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Branscombe, N. R., Mavor, K. I., Bizumic, B., & Subasic, E. (2010). Interactionism in personality and social psychology: An integrated approach to understanding the mind and behaviour. European Journal of Personality, 24, 458-482. doi:10.1002/per.782

Bizumic, B., Duckitt, J., Popadic, D., Dru, V., & Krauss, S. (2009). A cross-cultural investigation into a reconceptualization of ethnocentrism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 871-899. doi:10.1002/ejsp.589

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2009). Narcissism and ethnocentrism: A review. Directions in Psychiatry, 29, 99-109. (reprinted in 2010 in Directions in Mental Health Counseling, Directions in Psychiatric Nursing, Directions in Clinical and Counseling Psychology, and Directions in Rehabilitation Counseling)

Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Bromhead, D., & Subasic, E. (2009). The role of the group in individual functioning: School identification and the psychological well-being of staff and students. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 58, 171-192. doi:10.1111/j.1464-0597.2008.00387.x

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2008). “My group is not worthy of me”: Narcissism and ethnocentrism. Political Psychology, 29, 437-453. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2008.00638.x

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2007). Varieties of group self-centeredness and dislike of the specific other. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 29, 195–202. doi:10.1080/01973530701332252

Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Haslam, A. S., Ryan, M. K., Bizumic, B., & Subasic, E. (2007). Does personality explain in-group identification and discrimination? Evidence from the minimal group paradigm. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 517-53. doi:10.1348/014466606X153080



RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Monaghan, C., Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K.J., Smithson, M., Johns-Boast, L., & Van Rooy, D. (2012, December). Performance of student development software teams. Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences, Melbourne, Australia.

Bizumic, B., & Kenny, A. (2012, July). Is true tolerance possible? Explicit discrimination among the ethnically tolerant. Paper presented at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Chicago, IL, USA.

Bizumic, B., & Dunne, A. L. (2011, December). The role of narcissism, ethnocentrism, and salient social norms in Prisoner's Dilemma games. Paper presented at the 2011 Annual Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences, Hobart, Australia.

Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., Bromhead, D., Newbigin, C., & Jones, B. (2011, November). Social identity processes: Adding value in the public policy domain. Paper presented at the Annual Spring Workshop in Social Psychology, ANU, Canberra, Australia.

Howle, T., & Bizumic, B. (2011, October). The differential impact of ethnic threat and ecological threat on ethnocentrism and prejudice. Paper presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Canberra, Australia.

Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., Bromhead, D., & Newbigin, C. (2011, July). Transforming leadership and power to produce social change: A case example from Australian high schools. Paper presented at the Sixteenth General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Batalha, L., Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., & Subasic, E. (2011, July). Understanding changes in personality and ideology. Poster presented at the Sixteenth General Meeting of the European Association o Experimental Social Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Van der Linden, N., Bizumic, B., Stubager, R., Mellon, S., Iyer, R., & Jones, B. M. (2011, July). Do warlike peaceniks exist? The dimensionality and the representational correlates of attitudes towards peace and war. Paper presented at the Thirty-Fourth Annual Scientific Meeting of International Society of Political Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Bizumic, B., Stubager, R., Mellon, S., Van der Linden, N., Iyer, R., & Jones, B. M. (2011, April). Do warlike peaceniks exist? Paper presented at the Forty-First Annual Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Manly, Australia.

Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K. J., & Meyers, B. (2010, December). Why students identify with their school: The role of personality and social processes. Paper presented at the Annual Spring Workshop in Social Psychology, ANU, Canberra, Australia.

Bizumic, B., Smithson, M., & Van Rooy, D. (2010, July). Reconceptualized ethnocentrism and its consequences. Paper presented at the Thirty-Third Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., & Backhouse, A. (2010, April). The role of the group in individual functioning: Understanding the relationship between leadership effectiveness, social (organisational) identity and well-being. Paper presented at the Fortieth Annual Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Perth, Australia.

Bizumic, B. (2009, December). Ethnocentrism, outgroup negativity and ingroup positivity. Paper presented at the Eighth Conference of Asian Association of Social Psychology, New Delhi, India.

Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K. J., & Turner, J. C. (2009, April). A social psychology of personality change. Paper presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Melbourne, Australia.

Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., & Bromhead, D. (2009, April). Building authority and influence: Insights from understanding a school as an intergroup system. Paper presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Melbourne, Australia.

Bizumic, B., Turner, J. C., & Reynolds, K. (2008, November). Australian Federal Election 2007 and personality change. Paper presented at the Seventh Australian Conference on Personality and Individual Differences, Gold Coast, Australia.

Van der Linden, N., Bizumic, B., Stubager, R., & Mellon, S. (2008, July). Belligerent peaceniks and hippie warmongers: The dimensionality of attitudes towards, and social representations of, war and peace. Poster presented at the Thirty-First Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Paris, France.

Bizumic, B., Turner, J. C., Reynolds, K., & Kajtar, B. (2008, June). Closed-mindedness, ideology and prejudice: A self-categorization perspective. Paper presented at the Fifteenth General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.

Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., & Bizumic, B. (2008, June). What does self-categorization theory tell us about personality processes? Paper presented at the Fifteenth General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.

Bizumic, B., & Turner, J. C. (2007, November). Exploring the variability of openness and dogmatism. Paper presented at the Annual Spring Workshop in Social Psychology, ANU, Canberra, Australia.

Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K. J., Turner, J. C., Subasic, E., & Johnson, S. C. (2007, July). How stable are prejudice and ideology? Evidence of variability as a function of motivational orientation. Paper presented at the Thirtieth Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Portland, OR, USA.

Bizumic, B., Duckitt, J., & Bosnjak, S. (2007, April). The three faces of right-wing authoritarianism: Authoritarianism, conservatism, and traditionalism. Paper presented at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Brisbane, Australia.

 

Professional Memberships

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society of Australasian Social Psychologists

International Society of Political Psychology