Who we are
The Social Psychology Research Group is a group of social and personality psychologists who are primarily concerned with research that supports and sustains positive interpersonal relations, equality, generous inclusion, and civil society.
To do so, we research the interplay of emotions with personality, cognition and behaviour.
Group members
Dr Fabio Fasoli
Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology
Biography
Fabio Fasoli works on language and communication. His main lines of research focus on voice-based categorisation and discrimination (auditory gaydar and ‘gay voice’ stereotype), derogatory language and its consequences, and women’s media portrayals and their effects on body image.
Dr Erica Hepper
Senior Lecturer in Personality/Social Psychology
Biography
Erica Hepper studies individual differences in self-related emotions and motivations in interpersonal contexts and relationships. Her main lines of research focus on self-enhancement and its personality correlate narcissism, including their consequences for close relationships and health; and the emotion of nostalgia and its role in maintaining well-being.
Dr Sophie Russell
Lecturer in Social Psychology
Biography
Sophie Russell’s research interests are in moralization and moral emotions, such as guilt, shame, disgust, anger, and gratitude. In particular, she examines how and when moral emotions can be utilized to foster positive social relations.
Professor Harriet Tenenbaum
Professor in Developmental and Social Psychology
Biography
Harriet Tenenbaum’s research is concerned with social justice for young people. She examines how young people are embedded in social systems in which varying levels of discrimination occur at the socio-cultural level (e.g., religious laws, state single-gender schools) and the microsystem of everyday conversations (e.g., parents explaining science to boys more than to girls).