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Hornsey, Associate Professor Matthew

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Associate Professor Matthew Hornsey
Name:
Associate Professor Matthew Hornsey
Position:
Associate Professor
Room:
MC-462
Email:
Phone:
3365 6378
Fax:
3365 4466
Postal Address:

School of Psychology
University of Queensland
St Lucia 4072
Australia

Qualifications:

BA, PhD Qld

Background:

I received my PhD from the University of Queensland in 1999. My primary research interest is in examining intragroup and intergroup relations in the context of identity threat. I have published on topics such as distinctiveness threat, impostorism, power differences, and group criticism. I am an associate editor of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, and Australian Journal of Psychology.

Research Activities:

My research is in the area of intergroup relations, identity threat, dissent, and activism.

Representative Publications:

The following are a representative selection of my publications:

Hornsey, M. J., Grice, T., Jetten, J., Paulsen, N., & Callan, V. (2007). Group directed criticisms and recommendations for change: Why newcomers arouse more resistance than old-timers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1036-1048.

Hornsey, M. J., Jetten, J., McAuliffe, B., & Hogg, M. A. (2006). The impact of individualist and collectivist group norms on evaluations of dissenting group members. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 57-68.

Hornsey, M. J. (2005). Why being right is not enough: Predicting defensiveness in the face of group criticism. European Review of Social Psychology, 16, 301-334.

Hornsey, M. J., & Jetten, J. (2004). The individual within the group: Balancing the need to belong with the need to be different. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8 , 248-264.

Hornsey, M. J., & Imani, A. (2004). Criticizing groups from the inside and the outside: An identity perspective on the intergroup sensitivity effect. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 365-383.

Hornsey, M. J., Spears, R., Cremers, I., & Hogg, M. A. (2003). Relations between high and low power groups: The importance of legitimacy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 216-227.

Hornsey, M. J., & Hogg, M. A. (2000). Subgroup relations: A comparison of the mutual intergroup differentiation and common ingroup identity models of prejudice reduction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 242-256.

Hornsey, M. J., & Hogg, M. A. (2000). Assimilation and diversity: An integrative model of subgroup relations. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 143-156.

Hornsey, M. J., & Hogg, M. A. (2000). Intergroup similarity and subgroup relations: Some implications for assimilation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 26, 948-958.