Professor Craig McGARTY

PhD

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Research and Supervision Interests
Research Students
Selected Publications

My main interests are in the categorization process in social psychology and the processes of stereotype formation and change. I am also heavily involved in research on group-based emotions including collective guilt and on public opinion and collective action.

• Caroline Blink ( PhD) - Thesis : Processes in long-term attitude change in relation to Reconciliation.
• Renata Bongiorno ( PhD ) - Thesis : Gender as a social psychological structure.
• Alison Gee ( PhD, with Dr. Richard O'Kearney ) - Thesis : Improving attitudes towards people with mental disorders.
• Amaly Khalaf ( PhD ) - Thesis : Changing stereotypes about mental disorders.
• Girish Lala ( PhD ) - Thesis : Interaction versus action in on-line communities.
• Luke Musgrove ( PhD ) - Thesis : The social psychology of reactions to propaganda about the war on terror.
• Emma Thomas ( PhD ) - Thesis : Aligning emotion, identity and beliefs to boost prosocial action.

Past Research Students

• Derek Bopping (PhD, graduated 2005 ) - Thesis : Secrecy and service-loyalty in the Australian Defence Force.
• Dr. Ana-Maria Bliuc (PhD, graduated 2004) - Thesis : Opinion-based groups.
• Dr. Karen Douglas (PhD, graduated 2000) - Thesis : Identifiability on the Internet.
• Dr. Natalie Taylor (PhD, graduated 2000) - Thesis : Compliance.

Bliuc, A.-M., McGarty, C., Reynolds, K. J., & Muntele, O. (2007). Opinion-based group membership as a predictor of commitment to political action. European Journal of Social Psychology 37, 19-32.

McGarty, C. (2006). Hierarchies and groups: The roles of salience, overlap, and background knowledge in selecting meaningful social categorizations from multiple alternatives. In R. J. Crisp & M. Hewstone (Eds.) Multiple social categorization: Processes, models and applications. Hove, E. Sussex: Psychology Press.

McGarty, C. , Pedersen, A., Leach, C. W., Mansell, T., Waller, J., Bliuc, A.-M. (2005). Group-based guilt as a predictor of commitment to apology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 659-680.

McGarty, C. & Smithson, M. J. (2005). Independence and nonindependence: A simple method for comparing groups using multiple measures and the binomial test. European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 171-180.

Douglas, K. M., McGarty, C., Bliuc, A.-M., & Lala, G. (2005). Understanding cyberhate: Social competition and social creativity in on-line White-supremacist groups. Social Science Computer Review, 23, 68-76.

McGarty, C. & Bliuc, A.-M. (2004). Refining the meaning of the "Collective" in collective guilt: Harm, guilt and apology in Australia. In In N. R. Branscombe & B. Doosje (Eds.), Collective guilt: International Perspectives (pp. 112-129). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Haslam, S. A. & McGarty, C. (2003). Research methods and statistics in psychology. London: Sage.

McGarty, C. (2004). Forming stereotypes of entitative groups. V. Y. Yzerbyt, O. Corneille, and C. M. Judd (Eds.) The psychology of group perception: Contributions to the study of homogeneity, entitativity and essentialism. Psychology Press.

McGarty, C., Yzerbyt, V. Y., & Spears (Eds.) (2002). Stereotypes as explanations: The formation of meaningful beliefs about social groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Branscombe, N. R., Doosje, B. J. & McGarty, C. (2002). Collective guilt: Antecedents, correlates and consequences. In D. M. Mackie & E. R. Smith (Eds.) From prejudice to intergroup relations: Differentiated reactions to social groups (pp. 49-66). New York: Psychology Press.

Taylor, N. & McGarty, C. The role of subjective group memberships and perceptions of power in industrial conflict. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 11, 389-393.

Haslam, S. Alexander; McGarty, Craig. A 100 years of certitude? Social psychology, the experimental method and the management of scientific uncertainty. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 1-21.

Douglas, K. M. & McGarty, C. (2001). Identifiability and self-presentation: Computer-mediated communication and intergroup interaction. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 399-416.

Berndsen, M., McGarty, C., van der Pligt, J., & Spears, R. (2001). Meaning-seeking in the illusory correlation paradigm: The active role of participants in the categorization process. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 209-234.

McGarty, C. (2001) Social Identity Theory does not maintain that identification produces bias, and Self-categorization Theory does not maintain that salience is identification: Two comments on Mummendey, Klink and Brown. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 173-176.

McGarty, C. (1999). Categorization in social psychology. London: Sage.

Berndsen, M., Spears, R., McGarty, C. & van der Pligt, J. (1998). The dynamics of differentiation: Similarity as a precursor and product of stereotype formation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1451-1463.

McGarty, C. & Haslam, S. A. (Eds.) (1997). The message of social psychology: Perspectives on mind in society. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MT: Blackwell.