Social Psychology Laboratory

Perceived Group Variability


When and why do people perceive greater similarity between members of one group than between members of another group?		 Perceived Group Variability

Recent Conference Presentations

Paolini, S., Griffin, A., & Harris, N. (2010, June). I am no role model: When vicarious learning makes us grow anxious of ethnic others. In Eller, A. (convener), Extended contact: Taking the field forward. Paper presented at the 7th Biennale Convention of the (American) Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), New Orleans, Louisiana.

Paolini, S., Harwood, J., & Rubin, M. (2010, April). Interethnic contact valence and social categorization: Common ground for self-categorization theory and evolutionary psychology? In S. Paolini & A. Pedersen (convenors), Australian advances in research on interethnic contact. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. Perth, Australia.

Harris, N., Paolini, S., & Griffin, A. (2010, April). Growing anxious of ethnic others: Investigating the role of prior interethnic contact in the direct and vicarious acquisition of interethnic anxiety. In S. Paolini & A. Pedersen (convenors), Australian advances in research on interethnic contact. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. Perth, Australia.

Pedersen, A., Paolini, S., Barlow, F., & Sibley, C. (2010, April). The complex contact-prejudice relationship in Australia: Do our findings mirror those of Pettigrew and Tropp (2006)? In S. Paolini & A. Pedersen (convenors), Australian advances in research on interethnic contact. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists. Perth, Australia.

Alexander,.L., & Paolini, S. (2009, July). The role of self-expansion and anxiety-reduction in intergroup contact motivations for engagement and avoidance. In F. Garoff (convenor), Preventing violent conflict: Psychological dimensions. Under the auspices of the International Network of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. European Congress of Psychology, Oslo, Norway.

Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2009, April). A processing fluency explanation of bias against migrants. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Melbourne, Australia.

Paolini, S., Harwood, J., & Rubin, M. (2009, April). Investigating the effects of contact valence on category salience: Directional evidence for a contact valence asymmetry. In Paolini, S. (Convenor), Tracing the positive and negative trajectories of intergroup contact: An Australian perspective. Symposium conducted at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists, Melbourne, Australia.

Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. (2008, June). Why don't people like migrants? In Rubin, M. (Convenor), Understanding prejudice against migrants and identifying factors that promote migrant adaptation. Symposium conducted at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.

Paolini, S., Harwood, J., & Rubin, M. (2008, June). When evil is stronger than good: Contact valence and social categorization. Paper presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.

Milanov, M., Rubin, M., & Paolini, S. (2008, June). Distinguishing between social, communal, and interdependent types of in-group identification. Poster presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.

Hewstone, M., Turner, R., Paolini, S., Sharpe, M., Tausch, N., & Christ, O. (2007, October) Mediators and moderators of extended contact: A eulogy with qualifications. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Chicago, Illinois.

Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. (2007, October). An evaluative bias against migrant stimuli. In Crisp, R., Paolini, S., & Rubin, M. (Convenors), New perspectives on category-based discrimination. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Chicago, USA.

Paolini, S., Harwood, J., & Rubin, M. (2007, October). Old and new evidence for the category salience enhancing effects of negative intergroup contact. In Crisp, R., Paolini, S., & Rubin, M. (Convenors), New perspectives on category-based discrimination. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Chicago, USA.

McIntyre, K., Paolini, S. & Heathcote, A. (2007, April). Exploring the effects of exemplar retrieval fluency on group stereotyping. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Brisbane, Australia.

Paolini, S. (2007, April). Testing direct and indirect intergroup friendship effects Experimentally and longitudinally: a close-up on category salience and intergroup anxiety. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Brisbane, Australia.