Dr Jeremy ( Mark ) Rubin

Biography

• Social psychologist with research interests in deviance, help-seeking, in-group prototypicality, migration, prejudice, stereotyping, social class, and social integration

• MSc from the London School of Economics (1994); PhD from Cardiff University, UK (2000; Supervisor: Prof Miles Hewstone)

• Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology

• Author of two highly cited review articles in the area of intergroup relations (Hewstone, Rubin, & Willis, 2002, Annual Review of Psychology; 736 citations; Rubin & Hewstone, 1998; Personality and Social Psychology Review, 316 citations)

• Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants (Paolini, Harwood, & Rubin, 2007, awarded $252,000; Rubin, Paolini, & Crisp, 2005, awarded $110,000)

• Total number of publications: 23 (21 journal articles; 2 book chapters)

• Total citations: 1,277; h index: 8

• Research Webpage

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Wales
• Master of Science, University of London
• Bachelor of Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne - England

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Research

Research keywords

• Social class
• Social discrimination and prejudice
• Social identity
• Stereotyping

Research expertise

I am a social psychologist with expertise in the areas of help-seeking, deviance, migrants, in-group prototypicality, prejudice, stereotyping, social class, and social integration.

Collaboration

1. Badea, C., Brauer, M., & Rubin, M. (in press). The effects of winning and losing on perceived group variability. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2012.03.006

2. Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. J. (in press). Linguistic description moderates evaluations of counterstereotypical people. Social Psychology.

3. Milanov, M., Rubin, M., & Paolini, S. (in press). Types of ingroup identification as a function of group type. Annual of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”: Book Psychology, 103.

4. Rubin, M., Watt, S. E., & Ramelli, M. (in press). Immigrants’ social integration as a function of approach-avoidance orientation and problem-solving style. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.12.009

5. Rubin, M. (2012). Group status is related to group prototypicality in the absence of social identity concerns. Journal of Social Psychology, 152, 386–389. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224545.2011.614648 Free access available at http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/cMtWfbQgq9HNRiVqZSGi/full

6. Rubin, M. (2012). Social class differences in social integration among students in higher education: A meta-analysis and recommendations for future research. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 5, 22-38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0026162

7. Rubin, M. (2012). Working-class students need more friends at university: A cautionary note for Australia’s higher education equity initiative. Higher Education Research and Development, 31, 431-433. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07294360.2012.689246 Free access available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/vfyypRnNZK27hiH5WDQ8/full

8. Harwood, J., Paolini, S., Joyce, N., Rubin, M., & Arroyo, A. (2011). Secondary transfer effects from imagined contact: Group similarity affects the generalization gradient. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 180-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/014466610X524263

9. Rubin, M. (2011). Social affiliation cues prime help-seeking intentions. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 43, 138-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0022246

10. Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2011). The relationship between the need for closure and deviant bias: An investigation of generality and process. International Journal of Psychology, 46, 206-213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207594.2010.537660 Free access available at http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/aFXRZgBf6Ar6zNfaK4Gf/full

11. Paolini, S., Harwood, J., & Rubin, M. (2010). Negative intergroup contact makes group memberships salient: Explaining why intergroup conflict endures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1723-1738. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210388667

12. Rubin, M., & Badea, C. (2010). The central tendency of a social group can affect ratings of its intragroup variability in the absence of social identity concerns. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 410-415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.01.001

13. Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2010). A processing fluency explanation of bias against migrants. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 21-28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.09.006

14. Voci, A., Hewstone, M., Crisp, R. J., & Rubin, M. (2008). Majority, minority, and parity: Effects of gender and group size on perceived group variability. Social Psychology Quarterly, 71, 114-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019027250807100203

15. Rubin, M., & Badea, C. (2007). Why do people perceive in-group homogeneity on in-group traits and out-group homogeneity on out-group traits? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 31-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167206293190

16. Paolini, S., Hewstone, M., Rubin, M., & Pay, H. (2004). Increased group dispersion after exposure to one deviant group member: Testing Hamburger’s model of member-to-group generalization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 569-585. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2003.10.004

17. Rubin, M., & Hewstone, M. (2004). Social identity, system justification, and social dominance: Commentary on Reicher, Jost et al., and Sidanius et al. Political Psychology, 25, 823-844. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2004.00400.x

18. Rubin, M., Hewstone, M., Crisp, R. J., Voci, A., & Richards, Z. (2004). Gender out-group homogeneity: The roles of differential familiarity, gender differences, and group size. In V. Yzerbyt, C. M. Judd, & O. Corneille (Eds.), The psychology of group perception: Perceived variability, entitativity, and essentialism (pp. 203-220). New York: Psychology Press. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IA9Qg-fDga8C&pg=PA153&dq=rubin+gender+out-group+homogeneity&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZQQxT7-AAo6ZiQen14j3BA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=rubin gender out-group homogeneity&f=false

19. Hewstone, M., Rubin, M., & Willis, H. (2002). Intergroup bias. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 575-604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135109

20. Crisp, R. J., Hewstone, M., & Rubin, M. (2001). Does multiple categorization reduce intergroup bias? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 76-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167201271007

21. Rubin, M., Hewstone, M., & Voci, A. (2001). Stretching the boundaries: Strategic perceptions of intragroup variability. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 413-429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.51

22. Vescio, T. K., Hewstone, M., Crisp, R. J., & Rubin, J. M. (1999). Perceiving and responding to multiply categorizable individuals: Cognitive processes and affective intergroup bias. In D. Abrams & M. A. Hogg (Eds.), Social identity and social cognition (pp. 111-140). Cornwall, UK: Blackwell. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=S2J_lidKmoUC&pg=PA111&dq=Perceiving+and+responding+to+multiply+categorizable+individuals:&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vgQxT_zoIcyciQfxscTgBA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Perceiving and responding to multiply categorizable i

23. Rubin, M., & Hewstone, M. (1998). Social identity theory’s self-esteem hypothesis: A review and some suggestions for clarification. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2, 40-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0201_3

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
170113	Social And Community Psychology	100

Centres and Groups

Centre

• PRC - Priority Research Centre for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health (CTNMH)

Group

• Human Experimental and Applied Dynamics (HEAD)

Memberships

Committee/Associations (relevant to research).

• Fellow - Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• Member - Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• Member - Association for Psychological Science
• Member - Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
• Member - British Psychological Society
• Member - European Association of Social Psychology
• Member - International Society for Self and Identity

Awards

Recognition.

2011	Emerging Research Leadership Program (2011) The University of Newcastle (Australia) .

Research Award.

1997	Student Publication Award Society for Personality and Social Psychology (United States)

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Administrative

Administrative expertise

School of Psychology Student Academic Conduct Officer (Callaghan Campus; 2011 - Present)

School of Psychology Library Liaison Officer (2003-2010)

Member of the School of Psychology's Postgraduate Research Training Committee (2009 - 2010)

Member of the School of Psychology's Senior Executive Committee (2008 - 2010)

Member of Faculty of Science and IT's Community and Marketing Working Group (formerly International and Postgraduate Coursework Committee; 2002 - 2010)

Member of the School of Psychology’s Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Committee (2007 - 2008)

School of Psychology International Student Liaison Officer (2003 - 2006)

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Social psychology

Teaching expertise

At the undergraduate level, my teaching topics are primarily related to social psychology and include areas such as attitudes, the self, social influence, group processes, intergroup conflict, and cross-cultural social psychology.

I have supervised 57 final year student projects to completion. I have also supervised three PhD students to completion.

I was the winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2011)

Teaching interests

• PSYC1010 Psychology Introduction 1

• PSYC2600 Personality and Social Psychology (Course co-ordinator)
• PSYC3600 Advanced Social and Organisational Psychology
• PSYC4800/PSYC4801A/B Psychology Research Project