Ad hoc reviewer for:

British Journal of Social Psychology

European Journal of Social Psychology

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Social Psychology

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 

Australian Psychologist

Member of Society for Australasian Social Psychology, and Society of Personality and Social Psychology

My research focus is on intergroup relations. I am particularly interested in intergroup metacognitions and metaemotions insofar as they affect intergroup prejudice and discrimination. I approach my research utilising social identity theory, intergroup emotions (esp. collective guilt, anxiety) research, and system justification theory.

I have undertaken work with both community and student samples investigating the impact of intergroup rejection on race relations, extending this to situations of cross-group friendship and intergroup apology rejection.

At present I am lecturing in both statistics and social psychology. Please contact me if you would like copies of any of my papers, listed below, or any further information about my research.

Published and in press journal articles:

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and  Hewstone, M. (2009). Rejected! Cognitions of rejection and intergroup anxiety as mediators of the impact of cross-group friendships on prejudice. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 389-405. Available online: http://bpsoc.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpsoc/bjsp/pre-prints/313810

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (in press). Minority report: Social identity, cognitions of rejection and intergroup anxiety predicting prejudice from one racially marginalized group towards another. European Journal of Social Psychology. Available online: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/92013680/issue

Pedersen, A., & Barlow, F.K. (2008). Theory to social action: A university based strategy targeting prejudice against Aboriginal Australians. Australian Psychologist, 43, 148-159. Available online: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a901956943~db=all~jumptype=rss

Sibley, C.G., and Barlow, F.K. (2009). The ubiquity of Whiteness in majority group national imagination: Australian = White, but New Zealander does not. Australian Journal of Psychology, 61, 119-127. Available online: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a795148718~db=all~order=pubdate

Louis, W. R., Barlow, F. K., & Terry, D. J. (in press).  Alienation, inaction, and engagement in political decision-making: Passive war opponents actively avoid news of the war and are motivated to derogate protestors.  In F. Columbus (Ed.), Social Psychology: New Research.  New York: Nova Publishers.

Manuscripts under review and in preparation:

Barlow, F.K., Harth, N.S., Hornsey, M.J. & Louis, W.R. (2009). Getting off the hook: Rejection by a disadvantaged minority group reduces majority group collective guilt. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Barlow, F.K., Pedersen, A., & Louis, W.R. (2009). Worshipping false idols: Moral outrage mediates the relationship between false beliefs and prejudice reduction in a longitudinal intervention study. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Harth, N.S., Hornsey, M.J., & Barlow, F.K. (2009). Intergroup emotions in a state of flux: How expectations shape emotional responses to apology rejection and acceptance. Manuscript in preparation.

Diedrichs, P.C., & Barlow, F.K. (2009). Does this stigma make me look fat? Evaluating an anti-weight stigma intervention. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Allpress, J.A., Barlow, F.K., Brown, R.J., Louis, W.R., & Iyer, A. (2009). Addressing colonial injustices: Group-based shame and guilt motivate a desire to atone for colonial violence. Manuscript in preparation.

Conference Presentations:

Barlow, F.K., Harth, N.S., Hornsey, M.J., & Louis, W.R. (2009).  But what predicts contact? The link between minority rejection and majority guilt and cross-group avoidance. Invited paper in Cross-Group Contact Symposium (Stefania Paolini, convenor) presented at the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychology (SASP). Melbourne, Australia.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2008).  Intergroup metacognition predicting prejudice: Perceiving rejection by the rejected. Invited paper presented at the Brisbane Symposium for Social Identity (BSSI). University of Queensland, Australia.

Barlow, F.K., Allpress, J.G., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2008).  Collective apology: Competing identities, intergroup cognitions and shared emotions predicting support for apology over time. Invited paper presented in Justice for Indigenous Australians stream (convener, Michael Halloran), at the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR). Adelaide, Australia.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Hewstone, M. (2008) Intergroup contact, intergroup friendship, ethnicity, contact avoidance, cognitions of rejection. Poster presented at the Biannual Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychologists (EAESP). Opatija, Croatia.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2008). Social identity, cognitions of rejection and intergroup anxiety predicting prejudice from one racially marginalized group towards another. Paper presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychology (SASP). Wellington, New Zealand.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2007). Worshipping false idols: The relationship between endorsing myths about special privileges for Aboriginal Australians and prejudice. Paper presented at the National Conference on Racism in a Global Context. Perth, Australia.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2007). Guilt edges: How collective guilt can further separate members of oppositional groups. Invited paper in Justice Symposium (Michael Wenzel, convener) presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychology (SASP). Brisbane, Australia.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2006). Whites not welcome? How perceptions of being rejected by the minority group serve to disadvantage the minority group. Invited paper at Symposium on Racism and Discrimination, Australian National University. Canberra, Australia.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2006). The outrage and the guilt: Investigating the White evasion of Aboriginal Australia. Paper presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Australasian Social Psychology (SASP). Brisbane, Australia.

Barlow, F.K., Louis, W.R., and Terry, D.J. (2006). Aboriginal/White Relations in Australia. Paper  presented at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland. Brisbane, Australia.