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Dr Boris BIZUMIC

Lecturer

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

Office Location

Room 208, Department of Psychology (Building 39)

Mailing Address

Department 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

I received my Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, for a thesis titled "Psychology of ethnocentrism, self-centredness, and dislike of the other" (supervisor: John Duckitt). Subsequently, I worked as a research fellow at the ANU with John C. Turner, Katherine Reynolds and Emina Subasic on projects investigating self-categorization, personal identity and social change. My current position is lecturer in social psychology.

 

Current Grants:

2008-2011 ($420,000 cash & $415,080 in-kind)

Project title: Understanding the school as an intergroup system: Implications for school reform and improving student and staff outcomes

Awarded by the ARC Linkage Project scheme to:

Reynolds, K., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., Melsom, K., & MacGregor, F. 

- in partnership with the ACT Department of Education and Training.

 

Research and Supervision Interests

My main interests are at the intersection of social psychology and personality psychology. I am interested in investigating the interplay of personality variables (e.g., narcissism, authoritarianism, closed-mindedness, the "Big Five" personality traits) and group factors (e.g., ethnocentrism, group norms, intergroup processes, social identities, prejudice) in an attempt to understand their relationships and causal mechanisms.

 

Current Teaching

PSYC1004 - Psychology II: Understanding People in Context ("An Introduction to Personality" - 12 lectures)

PSYC2001 - Social Psychology

PSYC3023 - Special Topics in Psychology (Stream: Theories of Ethnocentrism)

 

Research Students

Current research students

Maddeline Mooney (Honours)

Ben Meyers (Honours)

Tim Howle (Honours)

 

Past research students 

Sarah Ashton (Honours, 2008)

Rashi Goenka (Honours, 2008)  

Stephanie Best (Honours, 2007)

Beatrice Kajtar (Honours, 2007)  

 

Selected Publications

Articles

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.

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2009). Narcissism and ethnocentrism: A review. Directions in Psychiatry, 29, 99-109.

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

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

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

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, 517-539.

 

Articles under review

Duckitt, J., Bizumic, B., & Krauss, S. (2009). A tripartite approach to right wing authoritarianism: The authoritarianism-conservatism-traditionalism model. Political Psychology.


Articles under revision or in preparation

Bizumic, B., & Duckit, J. (2008). Ethnocentrism: A conceptual analysis.

Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Turner, J. C., Ryan, M. K., Mavor, K. I., & McKone, E. (2008). How malleable is implicit prejudice? The role of self-categorization and social influence.

Bizumic, B., Turner, J. C., Reynolds, K., J., & Kwan, C. Closed-mindedness, ideology and prejudice: A self-categorization perspective.

Bizumic, B., Stubager, R., Mellon, S., & Van der Linden, N. Belligerent peaceniks and hippie warmongers: War and peace attitudes.

 

Conference presentations

Bizumic, B., Reynolds, K. J., & Turner, J. C., (2009, April). A social psychology of personality change. Paper presented 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 en 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. J. (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.

Bizumic, B. (2006, November). The two kinds of ethnocentrism. Paper presented at the Annual Spring Workshop in Social Psychology, ANU, Canberra, Australia.

Duckitt, J., Bizumic, B., Krauss, S., & Bosnjak, S. (2006, July). Cross-national comparisons of multidimensional ideological attitudes. Paper presented at the Seventeenth International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Spetses, Greece.

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2004, April). Cross-cultural evidence of validity of the new Ethnocentrism Scale. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, London, UK.

Milfont, T. L., Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2004, April). Concern for environmental issues: A comparison between Pakeha and Asians. Paper presented at the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Auckland, New Zealand.

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2003, July). The psychological structure of ethnocentrism. Paper presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Boston, MA, USA.

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2003, April). Narcissism and ethnocentrism: A study. Paper presented at the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Sydney, Australia.

Bizumic, B., & Duckitt, J. (2001, August). Multidimensional nature of ethnocentrism. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Psychological Society, Auckland, New Zealand.

 

Professional Memberships

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Society of Australasian Social Psychologists

International Society of Political Psychology

Asian Association of Social Psychology