Regulating Others’ Emotions in Daily Life MacCann, C. (University of Sydney), Pinkus, R. T. (University of Sydney), Clarke, I. (University of Technology Sydney), Kunst, H. (University of Sydney) Emotion regulation is typically studied as the strategies one uses to control the emotions one has and when one has them (i.e., how one regulates one’s own […]

Humility and its Impact on How We Respond to Our Own Transgression: Defensiveness, Self-Condemnation and Self-Forgiveness Woodyatt, L. (Flinders University), Onody, A. (Flinders University), Cornish, M., (Auburn University, United States), Sheldon, A. (Flinders University), Cibich, M., (Flinders University) Those who struggle with self-condemnation often report rumination about how they should or could have acted differently. […]

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 […]