Feelings about Feelings: Examining the association between emotion-related stigma, emotion regulation and depression in young people. Harvey, L. (University of Sydney), White, F. A. (University of Sydney), MacCann, C. (University of Sydney), Hunt, C. (University of Sydney) Emotion dysregulation appears to play a central role in the development and maintenance of depression. However,  the role […]

Lay Understandings of Fat-Prejudice: The Effects of Factual Information, Doubt, and Group Membership O’Brien, M. (Australian National University), Platow, M. J. (Australian National University) Prejudice is a concept shrouded in definitional ambiguity, leading to a lack of consensus in the social-psychological literature over what exactly constitutes prejudice. An argument is made that examining lay-beliefs regarding […]

When Memes Make Meaning: The Effects of Threat and Group-Based Social Proof on Interpreting Negative Intergroup Statements as Prejudice or Truth Read, E. (Australian National University), Platow, M. J. (The Australian National University) There is currently no consensually agreed-upon definition of the construct of prejudice in the social psychological literature. In order to understand the […]

Lay Beliefs and Understandings: Why Prejudice to One Person is Truth to Another O’Connor, S. (Australian National University), Platow, M. J. (Australian National University) Prejudice pervades across socio-cultural domains, making it a common topic of interest among both academics and lay-people. Despite this interest, however, the definition of prejudice is still debated. Lack of a […]