How Inequality Influences People’s Use of Wealth as a Categorisation for Self and Others Jetten, J. (University of Queensland), Pets, K. (University of Queensland), Mols, F. (University of Queensland), Tanjitpiyanond, P. (University of Queensland) Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) argue: “If inequalities are bigger, . . . where each one of us is placed becomes more […]

Cognitive Anxiety and Race: Does Anxiety at Encoding Affect Face Memory for Other-Race Individuals? Tindall, I. (Murdoch University), Curtis, G. (Murdoch University), Locke, V. (Murdoch University) Individuals whilst anxious or viewing another race face have reduced recognition accuracy. Limited research, however, has considered whether anxiety and race interact to exacerbate these deficits. The present study […]

Implicit Partner Attitudes and Attention to Attractive Alternatives Borovik, K. (Macquarie University), Boag, S. (Macquarie University), Fitness, J., (Macquarie University) The aim of this presentation is to consider whether implicit attitudes towards romantic partners are associated with automatic attentional biases regarding attractive relationship alternatives. One online study will be reported that assessed (1) participants’ implicit […]

Does Sexism Moderate the Relationship between Target’s Gender and Moral Judgements? Dasci, E. (University of Exeter), Barreto, M. (University of Exeter), Sweetman, J. (University of Exeter) The present research examines the effect of benevolent sexism on moral judgements of female targets. We hypothesised that the idealization of females as morally pure (benevolent sexism) resulted in […]