
Associate Professor Stefania Paolini
Associate Professor
School of Psychology (Psychology)
- Email:stefania.paolini@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4921 5938
Do unto others
Social psychologist Dr Stefania Paolini aims to understand the complex decision making processes involved in engaging with 'otherness'.
Dr Stefania Paolini is interested in what creates, or ameliorates, prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping between groups on opposing sides of an issue.
"My research expertise is around looking at how being part of a group impacts on the way you approach the world more broadly, and the way you respond to people who are from groups different to yours," she explains.
"There are many bases of prejudice. It could be sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or religion. Some of these divisions are quite benign, but others obviously create a lot of social issues."
Understanding why people choose to interact with members of other groups, why they choose not to, and under what conditions interactions challenge existing beliefs – for the better or for the worse – may hold the key to prejudice reduction and improved social integration.
THE NATURE OF PREJUDICE
Stefania notes that the academic and political lineage of her research is very much anchored in the push for desegregation in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s.
In 1954, renowned American personality psychologist Gordon Allport published his highly influential tome, "The Nature of Prejudice", shaping the literature in this field.
Allport's book explores the inherent internal conflicts that lead to societally mandated prejudice, directly informing monumental positive policy change related to desegregation.
Growing up in working class Italy, Stefania observed with interest the manifestations of inner conflict, the observance of co-existent but seemingly contradictory beliefs. Her interest in social and intergroup psychology ignited early in her undergraduate studies at the University of Padova.
Pursuing her PhD at Cardiff University under the tutelage of acclaimed social psychologist Professor Miles Hewstone (now at Oxford University), Stefania's doctoral research focused on intergroup relations between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
The resultant empirical work showed that direct and indirect cross-group friendships between Catholics and Protestants were associated with reduced anxiety, translating into reduced prejudice.
In addition to being incorporated into reports by the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission and the British Labour Party's Fabian Society, a 2004 article publishing these findings has also received more than 380 citations.
As one of the first studies to look at the role of friendship across the group divider in prejudice reduction, the results were also widely cited in the media.
THE POWER OF NEGATIVE BIAS
Allport's work, and much of the subsequent literature in this field, espouses the idea that facilitating contact between groups – such as Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland or Muslim and non-Muslim in Australia – is the best way of improving relations.
In 2005, Stefania was handpicked to present to a small delegation of intergroup psychology experts commemorating the fifty-year anniversary of a trip to South Africa undertaken by Gordon Allport and his PhD protégé Thomas Pettigrew.
It was in this atmosphere of reverent celebration that Stefania unveiled her latest research.
Her work, since reinforced by data from an increasing number of international studies, suggested that unless carefully controlled and definitely positive, such contact is more likely to confirm existing bias, increasing conflict.
"I was invited because I had shown that friendships across the protestant catholic line are good", she remembers.
"But I was presenting this new pile of data that showed that while positive contact is good, negative contact is far more powerful."
"There is greater potential for things to go wrong than going right when people meet, because people start with a negative expectation about the others."
This revolutionary understanding of intergroup contact, its unwanted effects and the subsequent implications for public policy, have created controversy within the field and attracted a number of vocal critics to Stefania, as well as important allies.
THOSE WHO PUSH THROUGH
Stefania's ultimate aim is to understand the motivators related to intergroup contact, so as to inform public strategies related to increased social integration.
"Although we know that anxiety is a big contributor to preventing people from engaging with others, we don't know much about why some people push through, especially when the conditions outside are not favourable."
Stefania affirms that research in several fields has shown that anxiety, easily triggered, is a dominant response to a perceived threat to survival. And although this function was helpful as a survival mechanism during the evolution of humankind, it is now apt to preclude social integration.
"Breaking through that fear requires thinking that there is an alternative possibility, a reality that isn't available, that things can be different."
"What I am interested in, is what is in the brain of people, who despite feeling the fear and anxiety for 'otherness', still push through."
"I call these people intergroup brave."
THE HIJAB STALL PROJECT
The benefits that can be created by positive interactions between people of opposing groups, such as increased social integration, health, and productivity, are often forestalled as people actively avoid intergroup contact.
Just as she is interested in the courageous who despite fear, engage in intergroup contact, Stefania is also seeking to understand the avoiders.
"Research suggests that people who are avoidant seem similar to people with more prejudicial attitudes, but when they engage, they change much more than the others."
With ARC Discovery Project funding, Stefania has recently begun a new project, in collaboration with UON students and international experts on intergroup related anxiety, communication, and psychology. The team will explore this contact approach avoidance.
For the first study of the project, Stefania is working closely with a Muslim Honours student who was running a hijab stall one day a week for four weeks on the Callaghan campus of the University of Newcastle.
Non-Muslim women were asked if they were interested in learning more about why the hijab and other head coverings such as the niqab (face-veil) are worn in the Islamic faith, and if they wanted to try any of these Islamic clothes on within the stall or to wear around campus.
Purposefully challenging dominant cultural norms on campus, Stefania and her team will collect and analyse data related to the decision-making of those who choose to, or choose not to, participate.
"We can learn just as much from the people who don't want to be involved as we can from those who do," she confirms.
A NEW FRONTIER
Although informed by previous work related to courage, Stefania is viewing this study, which connects these understandings of overcoming fear to intergroup relations, as a first step into a new frontier of social psychology.
"We are trying to understand what the bases are to predict where people fall in this spectrum of intergroup indifference – fearfulness, bravery, fearlessness – in the context of this hijab stall," Stefania explains.
"This will be the first study in this line of work. We've spent a lot of time preparing the study, because we are also preparing the template methodology for this line of research."
"Although exploratory, this research is based on the very strong foundation that comes from understanding that there are pulls and pushes. It is not at all a straightforward decision. It is very complex and nuanced."
"You may display very oppositional responses depending on the push, what is triggering you. It is not that part of you is more true than the other parts, but we are all made up of contrasting push and pulls."
Do unto others
Social psychologist Dr Stefania Paolini aims to understand the complex decision making processes involved in engaging with ‘otherness’
Career Summary
Biography
My ongoing research focuses on intergroup contact, the cognitive and affective bases of intergroup friendship and diversity, the motivational and affective predictors of people's willingness to engage in intergroup contact, intergroup emotions, intergroup anxiety, and their learning mechanisms; migrants' psychology; stereotype change and the effects of meta-cognitions on social judgment.
My research is highly cited and is published in leading international journals in the area of social psychology and intergroup relations. It has demonstrated broader impact, through its inclusion in reports by the United Nations, the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, the WorldBank, and the British Labour Party. It enjoys regular media attention nationally and internationally.
Because of my growing international profile in research on intergroup contact, I was invited to join a small delegation of experts commemorating in post-apartheid South Africa the 50th anniversary of Gordon Allport's visit of segregated South Africa and to deliver a key note address on ways to increase social cohesion to a large national conference of Canadian academics, policy makers, and public servants working on immigration. I secured an Australian Post-doctoral fellowship and competitive research funds from the Australian Research Council to study the psychological dynamics of dislike of immigrants, the consequences of positive and negative intergroup contact, and the motivational basis of interest in diversity. I was invited to enter a UON sponsored Emerging Research Leaders program.
I have been asked to take leadership positions within my discipline: I have been the lead organiser of a very successful national conference of SASP, the main professional body of social psychologists in Australasia. I have co-chaired the Internationalisation committee of SPSSI, the largest professional society of social scientists in the world, and in this capacity I designed and currently co-chair a new SPSSI-SASP small group conference series, linking on a yearly basis scholars and policy makers from these two prominent societies. I am co-editor of the Groups and Intergroup section of Wiley’s Social and Personality Psychology Compass. I regularly review for more than thirty international journals in my area and for main international grant bodies in North America, Europe, Africa, and Australasia.
I have had research leadership positions at UON and in the school for several years: I was invited to enter the UON Women in Leadership program. I have chaired the research group HEAD contributing to an ERA ranking of 4 ('above world standards'); I currently lead the School of Psychology’s Social and Organizational Psychology Research Group, offering research networking, mentoring, and training to 25+ staff and research students at all levels of training. In this capacity, I drove the recruitment and appointment of Prof Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford, UK) as UON Global Innovation Chair and with him I am working towards the establishment of a new Newcastle-Oxford Centre for Research on Social Conflict and Cohesion.
I have a passion for social justice and aspire to make the world a better place: I established and chair a Psychology-led Aboriginal Equity and Diversity working party aimed at educating UON staff, students, general public about Aboriginal and Equity and Diversity issues and ensure that teaching, research, service, and governance in Psychology, at UON, and in the local community are cognizant and responsive to the needs, sensitivities, and aspirations of Aboriginal peoples and other Equity and Diversity groups. My action research in intercommunity dialogue has earned the Australian Psychology Society’s Peace Research Prize and the runner up for the South Australia’s Muslim-nonMuslim Understanding prize.
I have extensive supervision and mentoring experience with a record of 80+ research students trained in my research laboratories over the last 15 years from varied schemes (PhD, clinical doctorate and masters, honours, WIL students). I coordinate an active and vibrant research laboratory of 15+ research students, post-docs, overseas visiting researchers, and research volunteers that meets regularly to learn about research and socialise. My research students and I enjoy a fully equipped suite of five research rooms across two campuses where we conduct dyadic and small group studies, as well as computer-based and psychophysiological research. We also conduct studies in the field and using internet-based surveys as part of an eclectic research toolkit in the area of intergroup psychology.
Research Expertise
- Social cognition
- intergroup contact, intergroup friendship and diversity
- Stereotyping, prejudice, and social discrimination
- Intergroup anxiety and intergroup emotions
- Interventions to ameliorate intergroup relations and increase intercommunity dialogue
- Metacognition and social judgements
Active Research Areas
--Seeking Diversity and Intergroup contact: I have received competitive research funds from the Australian Research Council for a 4-year research project on the motivational basis of people’s interest/disinterest in having contact with members of opposing groups. With Prof Jake Harwood (University of Arizona, USA) and Prof Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford, UK), I am profiling the personality of individuals who respond differently to a similar opportunity for contact (e.g., approach/avoid, apprehensive/nonapprehensive) to understand what are the most important determinants for their response. With Prof David Neumann (Griffith University) and Dr Michelle Kelly (UON), I am exploring fundamental dimensions of social processing (e.g., intergroup categorization, affective/evaluative learning, emotion processing) potentially responsible for these differential responses. This growing knowledge base will be used to design and test intervention strategies aimed at encouraging active approach of diversity.
--Learning Mechanisms of Interethnic Anxiety and Stereotyping: My collaborative research with Dr Andrea Griffin (UON) has focused on the learning mechanisms of interethnic anxiety and interethnic stereotyping. This research looks at first-hand and observational aversive learning, generalization and extinction processes, using experimentation and recordings of psycho-physiological markers of body activation (galvanic skin responses, heart rate, etc.) and speeded categorization decisions. It has enjoyed the financial support of grants from the John and Daphne Keats Endowment Research Fund and has provided the basis for the research training of several honours and PhD students.
-- Stereotype Change and Meta-Cognitions: Since my PhD, I never discontinued my interest in processes of stereotype change. For my doctoral work, I studied a social form of inductive reasoning called individual-to-group generalization, whereby individuals change their views of discriminated groups in society in light of information about specific group members. With Dr Kylie McIntyre (UON) and Prof Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford, UK), I have published several comprehensive meta-analyses on this topic in top journals. More recent research in this area has focused on the impact that meta-cognitions, or people’s cognitions about cognitions, exert on social induction. I am collaborating with Dr Shira Mor (Ono Academic College, Israel) to investigate the applicability of these principles to diversity training in globalised business environments and in conflict-ridden contexts.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Wales - Cardiff - Wales
- Post Graduate Qualification to Practice Psychology, University of Padova - Italy
- Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), University of Padova - Italy
Keywords
- decision making
- intergroup anxiety
- intergroup emotions
- learning mechanisms of interethnic anxiety
- meta-cognition
- migrants psychology
- prejudice
- social categorization
- social discrimination
- stereotype and prejudice change
- stereotyping
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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520501 | Community psychology | 40 |
520505 | Social psychology | 30 |
520401 | Cognition | 30 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
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Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Psychology Australia |
Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Psychology Australia |
Academic appointment
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1/2/2007 - 1/2/2015 | Fellow - APD (ARC) | University of Newcastle School of Psychology Australia |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Chapter (4 outputs)
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2017 |
Graf S, Paolini S, 'Investigating positive and negative intergroup contact: Rectifying a long-standing positivity bias in the literature', Intergroup Contact Theory Recent Developments and Future Directions, Routledge, London 92-113 (2017) [B1]
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2008 |
Vonofakou C, Hewstone M, Voci A, Paolini S, Turner RN, Tausch NT, et al., 'The impact of direct and extended cross-group friendships on improving intergroup relations', Improving Intergroup Relations: Building on the Legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew, Blackwell Publishing, Malden 107-123 (2008) [B1]
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2006 | Paolini S, Hewstone M, Voci A, Harwood J, Cairns E, 'Intergroup contact and the promotion of intergroup harmony: the influence of intergroup emotions', Social Identities: Motivational, Emotional and Cultural Influences, Psychology Press, Hove, United Kingdom 209-238 (2006) [B1] | ||||
2005 |
Hewstone M, Cairns E, Voci A, Paolini S, McLernon F, Crisp RJ, et al., 'Intergroup Contact in a Divided Society: Challenging Segregation in Northern Ireland', The Social Psychology of Inclusion and Exclusion, Psychology Press, Hove, United Kingdom 265-292 (2005) [B1]
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Journal article (45 outputs)
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2021 |
Paolini S, White FA, Tropp LR, Turner RN, Page-Gould E, Barlow FK, Gomez A, 'Intergroup contact research in the 21st century: Lessons learned and forward progress if we remain open', JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, 77 11-37 (2021)
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2020 |
Kauff M, Beneda M, Paolini S, Bilewicz M, Kotzur P, O'Donnell AW, et al., 'How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking', JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, 77 38-63 (2020)
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2020 |
Khodos I, Moskovsky C, Paolini S, 'Bilinguals' and monolinguals' performance on a non-verbal cognitive control task: How bilingual language experience contributes to cognitive performance by reducing mixing and switching costs', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM, 25 189-204 (2020) [C1]
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2020 |
Dehghani Aghbolagh H, Zamani M, Paolini S, Chen Z, 'Balance seeking opinion dynamics model based on social judgment theory', Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 403 (2020) [C1]
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2020 |
Graf S, Paolini S, Rubin JM, 'Does intimacy counteract or amplify the detrimental effects of negative intergroup contact on attitudes?', Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23 214-225 (2020) [C1]
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2019 |
O'Donnell AW, Neumann DL, Duffy AL, Paolini S, 'Learning to fear outgroups: An associative learning explanation for the development and reduction of intergroup anxiety', SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY COMPASS, 13 (2019) [C1]
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2019 |
Wilczynska M, Lubans DR, Paolini S, Plotnikoff RC, 'Mediating Effects of the eCoFit Physical Activity Intervention for Adults at Risk of, or Diagnosed with, Type 2 Diabetes', International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 26 512-521 (2019) [C1] Background: The study aim was to examine the mechanisms of physical activity behaviour change in the multi-component eCoFit randomised controlled trial (RCT) among adults diagnose... [more] Background: The study aim was to examine the mechanisms of physical activity behaviour change in the multi-component eCoFit randomised controlled trial (RCT) among adults diagnosed with, or at risk of, T2D. Method: The RCT included two phases: phase 1 (weeks 1¿10) integrated group sessions (outdoor physical activity and cognitive mentoring) and the use of the eCoFit smartphone application (app), and phase 2 (weeks 11¿20), which included the use of the eCoFit smartphone application only. Participants (n = 84) were assessed at baseline and 10 and 20¿weeks from baseline. Physical activity was assessed using pedometers, and the following mediators were tested: action self-efficacy, barrier self-efficacy, recovery self-efficacy, implementation intentions, intention to have regular physical activity, outcome expectations, risk perception and implicit associations related to physical activity. The PROCESS INDIRECT Macro was used to perform mediation analyses. Results: Significant mediation pathways were found for implementation intention measured at 10¿weeks, AB (95% CI = 486.04 [128.19, 1073.42]). No significant pathways were found for the other social¿cognitive and implicit attitudinal mediators. Conclusion: Increased daily steps among the intervention participants were explained by increased implementation intentions. The eCoFit study successfully operationalised implementation intentions in the smartphone app designed to promote outdoor physical activity. Trial Registration: The trial was approved by a University Human Research Committee and is registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry (ACTRN12615000990527).
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2019 |
Husnu S, Paolini S, 'Positive imagined contact is actively chosen: Exploring determinants and consequences of volitional intergroup imagery in a conflict-ridden setting', Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 22 511-529 (2019) [C1] Past research has ascertained the benefits of involuntary, ¿forced¿ exposure to positive imagined contact. This research explored determinants and consequences of actively chosen ... [more] Past research has ascertained the benefits of involuntary, ¿forced¿ exposure to positive imagined contact. This research explored determinants and consequences of actively chosen imagined contact in a setting of entrenched intergroup conflict. In Study 1, when given an unvalenced visualisation scenario enabling participants to steer the visualisation in any direction they wanted, Turkish Cypriots visualised an intergroup interaction nondistinguishable in quality to that of those assigned to a positive scenario. In Study 2, when asked to actively choose between visualising a positive or a negative intergroup interaction, Turkish Cypriots disproportionally preferred positive over negative contact. The chosen visualisation reflected mood and valenced confirmation biases and resulted in virtuous (vs. vicious) effects on group-level outcomes. These findings shed a first light on the psychological underpinnings of volitional intergroup imagery and indicate that intergroup imagery is a safe way of engaging with the outgroup even in contexts of entrenched conflict.
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2019 |
Paolini S, McIntyre K, 'Bad Is Stronger Than Good for Stigmatized, but Not Admired Outgroups: Meta-Analytical Tests of Intergroup Valence Asymmetry in Individual-to-Group Generalization Experiments', Personality and Social Psychology Review, 23 3-47 (2019) [C1] Theories of risk aversion, epistemic defense, and ingroup enhancement converge in predicting greater impact of negative (vs. positive) experiences with outgroup members on general... [more] Theories of risk aversion, epistemic defense, and ingroup enhancement converge in predicting greater impact of negative (vs. positive) experiences with outgroup members on generalized evaluations of stigmatized outgroups. However, they diverge in predictions for admired outgroups. Past tests have focused on negative outgroups using correlational designs without a control group. Consequently, they have not distinguished between alternative explanations or ascertained the direction of causality/generalization, and they have suffered from self-selection biases. These limitations were redressed by a meta-analysis of experimental research on individual-to-group generalization with positive and negative outgroups (59 tests; 3,012 participants). Controlling for modest confounds, the meta-analysis found a generalization advantage of negative experiences for stigmatized outgroups and a generalization advantage of positive experiences for admired outgroups. These results highlight the centrality of valenced expectations about outgroups, consistent with epistemic defense and ingroup enhancement and inconsistent with risk aversion. Implications for positive changes in intergroup dynamics are discussed.
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2019 |
Rubin J, Paolini S, Subasic E, Giacomini A, 'A confirmatory study of the relations between workplace sexism, sense of belonging, mental health, and job satisfaction in male-dominated industries', Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 49 267-267 (2019) [C1]
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2018 |
Paolini S, Harwood J, Hewstone M, Neumann DL, 'Seeking and avoiding intergroup contact: Future frontiers of research on building social integration', Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Espinosa A, Guerra R, Sanatkar S, Paolini S, Damigella D, Licciardello O, Gaertner SL, 'Identity Inclusiveness and Centrality: Investigating Identity Correlates of Attitudes toward Immigrants and Immigration Policies', Journal of Social Issues, 74 674-699 (2018) [C1] Social psychology highlights ingroup identity as an important determinant of intergroup attitudes and relations; however, research has demonstrated that its effects can be positiv... [more] Social psychology highlights ingroup identity as an important determinant of intergroup attitudes and relations; however, research has demonstrated that its effects can be positive, negative, or nonexistent depending on how such identity is conceptualized. This research explores how national identity inclusiveness (Study¿1) and centrality (Study 2) are associated with immigration related attitudes in school and countrywide settings, respectively. Study 1 showed that teachers¿ inclusive (i.e., overlapping) identities regarding their immigrant students related to positive attitudes toward these students, but not to attitudes about immigrants in general or immigration policy preferences. Study 2 found that national identity centrality was related to negative attitudes toward the social impact of immigrants, and to higher support for policies inhibiting the social inclusion of immigrants in the receiving community. Combined, these studies highlight the importance of considering different conceptualizations of ingroup identity in identifying relations to immigration-based attitudes. Moreover, the studies highlight the value of promoting inclusive identities when aiming to improve attitudes toward immigrants. We conclude by discussing a new approach for promoting inclusive identities by framing immigrants as indispensable to the receiving community.
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2018 |
Sanatkar S, Paolini S, Damigella D, Licciardello O, 'Identity and Deprovincialization: Identity Complexity and Inclusiveness Encourage EU-wide Behavioural Intentions via Reduced Intergroup Concerns and Increased Optimism', INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 31 (2018) [C1]
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2017 |
Rubin JM, Subasic E, Giacomini A, Paolini S, 'An exploratory study of the relations between women miners' gender-based workplace issues and their mental health and job satisfaction', JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 47 400-411 (2017) [C1]
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2017 |
Owuamalam CK, Paolini S, Rubin M, 'Socially creative appraisals of rejection bolster ethnic migrants' subjective well-being', Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47 366-376 (2017) [C1] We examined a proposition based on social identity theory that socially creative appraisals of rejection can boost the well-being of strongly identifying ethnic migrants. We pilot... [more] We examined a proposition based on social identity theory that socially creative appraisals of rejection can boost the well-being of strongly identifying ethnic migrants. We piloted this proposition amongst women (N = 80) and found that strong (but not weak) group identifiers who considered the positive views that society holds about their social identity reported higher subjective wellbeing (self-esteem) relative to those who dwelt on rejection. In a subsequent field experiment (N = 179) conducted amongst ethnic migrants in London, we added a further social creativity treatment in which participants were encouraged to consider how they would view immigrants if they were native British (accommodation). Results revealed that the two social creativity mindsets (accommodation and positive) combined: (a) reduced perceptions of social rejection and increased optimism over the openness and fairness of society relative to a rejection mindset, (b) enhanced the self-esteem of strongly (but not weakly) identified ethnic migrants, and (c) enhanced ethnic migrant's wellbeing by minimizing the recall of social rejection and by strengthening optimism over the host society's openness and fairness. Implications for social change are discussed.
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2017 |
Harwood J, Joyce N, Chen C-Y, Paolini S, Xiang J, Rubin M, 'Effects of Past and Present Intergroup Communication on Perceived Fit of an Outgroup Member and Desire for Future Intergroup Contact', Communication Research, 44 530-555 (2017) [C1]
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2016 |
Paolini S, Harris NC, Griffin AS, 'Learning anxiety in interactions with the outgroup: Towards a learning model of anxiety and stress in intergroup contact', Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 19 275-313 (2016) [C1]
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2016 |
McIntyre K, Paolini S, Hewstone M, 'Changing people s views of outgroups through individual-to-group generalisation: meta-analytic reviews and theoretical considerations', European Review of Social Psychology, 27 63-115 (2016) [C1] Through individual-to-group generalisation, information about individual members of stigmatised social groups changes the outgroup judgment. This article reports meta-analytic rev... [more] Through individual-to-group generalisation, information about individual members of stigmatised social groups changes the outgroup judgment. This article reports meta-analytic reviews of over 30¿years of experimental, lab-based research on individual-to-group generalisation (107 independent tests; 5393 participants). In a first meta-analysis, a positive, medium-size generalisation effect was detected (r¿=.28, p¿<.001), reflecting significant generalisation of outgroup exemplar information to the outgroup judgment. This effect was moderated by the number of exemplars and exemplar typicality, with more moderately atypical exemplars maximising generalisation effects. Several other design parameters¿including type of control condition, generalisation measures, mode of information provision, type of target outgroup and origin of study¿did not moderate the positive generalisation effect. A second meta-analysis investigated the interplay between metacognitions and generalisation and found assimilation effects with metacognitive triggers encouraging exemplar inclusion, and contrast effects with metacognitive cues encouraging exemplar exclusion. These results demonstrate that the same outgroup exemplar can lead to bias reduction or bias exacerbation, depending on available meta-cognitive cues. Findings are discussed in terms of implications for intergroup psychology, generalisation theory and bias reduction interventions.
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2016 |
Rubin M, Milanov M, Paolini S, 'Uncovering the diverse cultural bases of social identity: Ingroup ties predict self-stereotyping among individualists but not among collectivists', Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 19 225-234 (2016) [C1] On what basis do people form their social identities? To investigate this issue, the present research investigates cross-cultural differences in self-stereotyping, a key outcome o... [more] On what basis do people form their social identities? To investigate this issue, the present research investigates cross-cultural differences in self-stereotyping, a key outcome of social identification. In particular, the research tests the hypothesis that ingroup ties are a stronger predictor of self-stereotyping among people from individualist cultures than among people from collectivist cultures. In Study 1, university students (N = 117) completed measures of ingroup ties and self-stereotyping with respect to an intimacy group (family and friends). Consistent with predictions, ingroup ties significantly predicted self-stereotyping among individualists but not among collectivists. Study 2 (N = 104) found a similar pattern of results among members of the global internet community who considered either an intimacy group (their friends), a task group (their work group) or a social category (their gender). These results indicate that people in individualist cultures are more likely than those in collectivist cultures to base their social identities on ingroup ties. The implications of these results are discussed in relation to self-categorization theory's depersonalization account of social identification.
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2016 |
Paolini S, Wright SC, Dys-Steenbergen O, Favara I, 'Self-Expansion and Intergroup Contact: Expectancies and Motives to Self-Expand Lead to Greater Interest in Outgroup Contact and More Positive Intergroup Relations', Journal of Social Issues, 72 450-471 (2016) [C1] Sixty years of research on intergroup contact demonstrates that positive interactions across group boundaries can improve intergroup attitudes and can contribute to forging tolera... [more] Sixty years of research on intergroup contact demonstrates that positive interactions across group boundaries can improve intergroup attitudes and can contribute to forging tolerant, integrated, multicultural societies. However, to fully realize the benefits of growing diversity around the globe, individuals need to exploit opportunities for intergroup contact that are available to them. Yet, it is relatively unknown why people might deliberately engage in cross-group interactions and how individuals¿ expectations and motives prepare them to develop positive interpersonal relationships with outgroup members. In this article, we begin to address these research gaps. We discuss the self-expansion model and present new evidence that is consistent with this model. Two studies, one correlational in a cross-cultural setting and the other experimental, show the value of high self-expansion expectancies and motivation in promoting interest in and producing more and higher quality interactions across group boundaries. We discuss implications of these findings for policy and intervention.
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2015 |
Lacey M, Paolini S, Hanlon MC, Melville J, Galletly C, Campbell LE, 'Parents with serious mental illness: Differences in internalised and externalised mental illness stigma and gender stigma between mothers and fathers', Psychiatry Research, 225 723-733 (2015) [C1] Research demonstrates that people living with serious mental illness (SMI) contend with widespread public stigma; however, little is known about the specific experiences of stigma... [more] Research demonstrates that people living with serious mental illness (SMI) contend with widespread public stigma; however, little is known about the specific experiences of stigma that mothers, and in particular fathers, with SMI encounter as parents. This study aimed to explore and compare the experiences of stigma for mothers and fathers with SMI inferred not only by living with a mental illness but also potential compounding gender effects, and the associated impact of stigma on parenting. Telephone surveys were conducted with 93 participants with SMI who previously identified as parents in the Second Australian National Survey of Psychosis. Results indicated that mothers were more likely than fathers to perceive and internalise stigma associated with their mental illness. Conversely, fathers were more inclined to perceive stigma relating to their gender and to hold stigmatising attitudes towards others. Mental illness and gender stigma predicted poorer self-reported parenting experiences for both mothers and fathers. These findings may assist in tailoring interventions for mothers and fathers with SMI.
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2015 |
Moskovsky CG, Alsharhani M, Ratcheva S, Paolini S, 'Aptitude as a predictor of second language achievement: An investigation in the Saudi Arabian context', Arab World English Journal, 6 3-21 (2015) [C1]
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2015 |
Somkittikanon P, Paolini S, Teaukul S, Rubin JM, Favara I, 'The predictability of child rearing practice and city-rural contact on personality characteristic of Thai and Australian psychology students.', Journal of The Royal Thai Army Nurses, 16 140-146 (2015) [C1]
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2014 |
Milanov M, Rubin JM, Paolini S, 'Constructing and validating a new measure of ingroup identification.', Annuaire de L Université de Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski . Faculte de Philosophie, 104 71-94 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Graf S, Paolini S, Rubin M, 'Negative intergroup contact is more influential, but positive intergroup contact is more common: Assessing contact prominence and contact prevalence in five Central European countries', European Journal of Social Psychology, 44 536-547 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Paolini S, Harwood J, Rubin M, Husnu S, Joyce N, Hewstone M, 'Positive and extensive intergroup contact in the past buffers against the disproportionate impact of negative contact in the present', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 44 548-562 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Milanov M, Rubin JM, Paolini S, 'Different types of ingroup identification: A comprehensive review, an integrative model, and implications for future research.', Psicologia Sociale, 3 205-232 (2014) [C1]
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2014 |
Rubin M, Paolini S, 'Out-group flies in the in-group s ointment: Evidence of the motivational underpinnings of the in-group overexclusion effect.', Social Psychology, 45 265-273 (2014) [C1]
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2013 |
Moskovsky C, Alrabai F, Paolini S, Ratcheva S, 'The Effects of Teachers' Motivational Strategies on Learners' Motivation: A Controlled Investigation of Second Language Acquisition', LANGUAGE LEARNING, 63 34-62 (2013) [C1]
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2013 |
Milanov M, Rubin JM, Paolini S, 'Adult attachment styles as predictors of different types of ingroup identification.', Bulgarian Journal of Psychology, 1-4 175-186 (2013) [C1]
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2013 |
Wolfenden L, McKeough A, Bowman J, Paolini S, Francis L, Wye P, Puhl R, 'Experimental investigation of parents and their children's social interaction intentions towards obese children', JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH, 49 604-607 (2013) [C1]
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2013 |
Rubin M, Paolini S, Crisp RJ, 'Linguistic Description Moderates the Evaluations of Counterstereotypical People', SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 44 289-298 (2013) [C1]
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2012 |
Campbell LE, Hanlon M-C, Poon AWC, Paolini S, Stone MJ, Galletly C, et al., 'The experiences of Australian parents with psychosis: The second Australian national survey of psychosis', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 46 890-900 (2012) [C1]
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2012 |
Barlow FK, Paolini S, Pedersen A, Hornsey MJ, Radke HRM, Harwood J, et al., 'The contact caveat: Negative contact predicts increased prejudice more than positive contact predicts reduced prejudice', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38 1629-1643 (2012) [C1]
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2012 |
Milanov M, Rubin M, Paolini S, 'Types of ingroup identification as a function of group type.', Annuaire de L Université de Sofia St. Kliment Ohridski . Faculte de Philosophie, 103 119-140 (2012) [C1]
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2011 |
Rubin JM, Paolini S, Crisp RJ, 'The relationship between the need for closure and deviant bias: An investigation of generality and process', International Journal of Psychology, 46 206-213 (2011) [C1]
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2011 |
Harwood J, Paolini S, Joyce N, Rubin JM, Arroyo A, 'Secondary transfer effects from imagined contact: Group similarity affects the generalization gradient', British Journal of Social Psychology, 50 180-189 (2011) [C1]
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2010 |
Paolini S, Harwood J, Rubin JM, 'Negative intergroup contact makes group memberships salient: Explaining why intergroup conflict endures', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36 1723-1738 (2010) [C1]
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2009 |
Paolini S, Crisp RJ, McIntyre KL, 'Accountability moderates member-to-group generalization: Testing a dual process model of stereotype change', Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45 676-685 (2009) [C1]
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2007 |
Turner R, Hewstone M, Voci A, Paolini S, Christ O, 'Reducing prejudice via direct and extended cross-group friendship', European Review of Social Psychology, 18 212-255 (2007) [C1]
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2007 |
Paolini S, Hewstone M, Cairns E, 'Direct and indirect intergroup friendship effects: Testing the moderating role of the affective-cognitive bases of prejudice', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33 1406-1420 (2007) [C1]
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2005 |
Harwood J, Hewstone M, Paolini S, Voci A, 'Grandparent-grandchild contact and attitudes toward older adults: Moderator and mediator effects', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31 393-406 (2005) [C1]
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2004 |
Paolini S, Hewstone M, Rubin JM, Pay H, '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 (2004) [C1]
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2004 |
Paolini S, Hewstone M, Cairns E, Voci A, 'Effects of direct and indirect cross-group friendships on judgments of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: The mediating role of an anxiety-reduction mechanism', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30 770-786 (2004) [C1]
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2003 |
Crisp R, Hewston M, Richards Z, Paolini S, 'Inclusiveness and crossed categorization: Effects on co-joined category evaluations of in-group and out-group primes', British Journal of Social Psychology, 42 25-38 (2003) [C1]
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Conference (22 outputs)
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2016 |
Neumann DL, Webb S, Paolini S, Griffin AS, O'Donnell AW, 'Affective learning about racial in-group and out-group members', The European Conference on Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences 2016: Official Conference Proceedings, Brighton, UK (2016) [E1]
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2010 |
McKeough A, Wolfenden L, Bowman JA, Paolini S, 'Opportunities for friendship: An experimental comparison of overweight and healthy weight children', Obesity Reviews, Stockholm, Sweden (2010) [E3]
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2009 | Lameez A, Paolini S, 'The role of self-expansion and anxiety-reduction in intergroup contact motivations for engagement and avoidance', 11th European Congress of Psychology ECP09: Abstracts, Oslo, Norway (2009) [E3] | ||||
2009 | Paolini S, 'Tracing the positive and negative trajectories of intergroup contact: An Australian perspective', Society of Australasian Social Psychologists 39th Annual Conference, Melbourne, VIC (2009) [E3] | ||||
2008 | Paolini S, 'Testing direct and indirect cross-gender friendship effects experimentally and longitudinally: A close-up on the interplay between episodic and chronic process variables', EAESP-SPSSI Small Group Meeting on 'Intergroup Contact: Recent Advancements in Basic and Applied Research', Marburg, Germany (2008) [E3] | ||||
2007 | Paolini S, 'Member-to-group generalisation in intergroup contact - The social cognitive underpinning pf prejudice reduction and enhancement', 15th Brisbane Symposium on Social Identity. Program, Brisbane (2007) [E3] | ||||
2007 | Paolini S, 'Testing direct and indirect intergroup friendship effects experimentally and longitudinally: A close-up on category salience and intergroup anxiety', Society of Australasian Social Psychologists 36th Annual Conference. Abstracts, Brisbane, QLD (2007) [E3] | ||||
2007 |
McIntyre KL, Paolini S, Heathcote AJ, 'Exploring the effects of exemplar retrieval fluency on group sterotyping: 'A case of the less the merrier?'', Society of Australasian Social Psychologists 36th Annual Conference. Abstracts, Brisbane, QLD (2007) [E3]
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2007 | Hewstone M, Turner R, Paolini S, Sharp M, Tausch N, Christ O, 'Mediators and moderators of extended contact: A eulogy with qualifications', Society of Experimental Social Psychology Annual Conference 2007 (SESP2007). Annual Meeting Program, Chicago, Il (2007) [E3] | ||||
2005 | Paolini S, 'Direct and indirect friendship between ingroup and outgroup members: A combined, multi-session, and experimental test of their effects and mediators', 14th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Wuerzburg (2005) [E3] | ||||
2004 | Paolini S, Hewstone M, Cairns E, Voci A, 'Direct and indirect cross-group friendship effects: Converging evidence from Northern Ireland and Australia', Australian Journal of Psychology, Australia (2004) [E3] | ||||
2004 | Paolini S, Hewstone M, Cairns E, Voci A, 'Direct and indirect crossgroup friendship effects: Evidence for the mediating role of an anxiety-reduction mechanism', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY (2004) [E3] | ||||
2004 | Paolini S, Hewstone M, Cairns E, Voci A, 'Direct and indirect cross-group friendship effects: Evidence for the mediating role of an anxiety-reduction mechanism', Book of Abstracts, 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China (2004) | ||||
2003 | Paolini S, Hewstone M, 'To judge or not to judge: Testing an extended social judgeability model of stereotyping', Australian Journal of Psychology, Melbourne (2003) [E3] | ||||
2002 | Hewstone M, Paolini S, Cairns E, Voci A, 'An improved approach to intergroup contact: Measures, mediators and moderators', European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, San Sebastian, Spain (2002) [E3] | ||||
2002 | Paolini S, Hewstone M, 'Enough is good enough: When judgeability considerations lead to reduced stereotyping', European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, San Sebastian, Spain (2002) [E3] | ||||
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Other (13 outputs)
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2010 |
Rubin JM, Paolini S, Crisp RJ, 'A processing fluency explanation of bias against migrants', ( issue.1 pp.21-28): Elsevier (2010) [C1]
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2009 |
Paolini S, Harwood J, Rubin JM, 'Investigating the effects of contact valence on category salience: Directional evidence for a contact valence asymmetry', ( pp.92). Melbourne, VIC: SASP 2009 Organising Committee (2009) [E3]
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2008 |
Milanov MT, Rubin JM, Paolini S, 'Distinguishing between social, communal, and interdependent types of in-group identification', ( pp.307). Zagreb: Society for Psychological Assistance (2008) [E3]
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2008 |
Paolini S, Harwood J, Rubin JM, 'When evil is stronger than good: Contact valence and social categorization', ( pp.331-332). Zagreb: Society for Psychological Assistance (2008) [E3]
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2008 |
Rubin JM, Paolini S, Crisp R, 'Why don't people like migrants?', ( pp.362-363). Zagreb: Society for Psychological Assistance (2008) [E3]
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2008 |
Milanov MT, Rubin JM, Paolini S, 'Distinguishing between social, communal, and interdependent types of in-group identification', ( pp.644). Hove, UK: Psychology Press (2008) [E3]
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2007 |
Rubin JM, Paolini S, Crisp RJ, 'An evaluative bias against migrant stimuli', ( pp.1). Chicago: University of Chicago (2007) [E3]
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2007 |
Paolini S, Harwood J, Rubin JM, 'Old and new evidence for the category salience enhancing effects of negative intergroup contact', ( pp.1). Chicago: University of Chicago (2007) [E3]
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2006 |
Paolini S, Rubin JM, Crisp R, 'A computerized test of an automatic and controlled displaced stimulus bias [Abstract]', ( pp.44): Taylor & Francis Ltd (2006) [C3]
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2006 |
Rubin JM, Paolini S, Crisp R, 'Evidence for a bias against stimuli that are in the wrong places in category systems', ( pp.47): Taylor & Francis Ltd (2006) [C3]
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2005 |
Paolini S, Rubin JM, Crisp R, 'There's a place for everything and everything has its place: evidence for a displaced stimulus bias', ( pp.96): Australian Psychological Society (2005) [C3]
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2004 |
Rubin JM, Paolini S, Crisp R, 'Evidence for an evaluative bias against stimuli that don't 'fit in'', ( pp.259): Psychology Press (2004) [C3]
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2003 |
Rubin JM, Paolini S, ''We are like me': Explaining in-group bias in terms of self-anchoring', ( issue.2003 Supplement pp.60): The Australian Psychological Society Ltd (2003) [C3]
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 19 |
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Total funding | $804,711 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20211 grants / $42,000
Daphne Keats’ Support for Intercultural Research$42,000
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2021 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
GNo | G2100368 |
Type Of Funding | C3120 - Aust Philanthropy |
Category | 3120 |
UON | Y |
20192 grants / $8,740
Investigating how motivations for intergroup contact shape contact outcomes during everyday intercultural interactions $8,000
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Doctor Elise Kalokerinos |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2019 |
GNo | G1900093 |
Type Of Funding | C3120 - Aust Philanthropy |
Category | 3120 |
UON | Y |
2020 NEWstar Program$740
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | 2020 NEWstar Program |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2019 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | G1901166 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20181 grants / $7,640
Do Cultural metacognitions boost the benefits of positive interethnic contact? A field-test in an Israeli-Arab shared learning setting$7,640
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Dr Shira Mor |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1800039 |
Type Of Funding | C3120 - Aust Philanthropy |
Category | 3120 |
UON | Y |
20153 grants / $321,566
Approaching the Outgroup Unlocks Intergroup Contact's Benefits for Society$306,338
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Professor Jake Harwood, Professor David Neumann, Professor Miles Hewstone, Hewstone, Miles, Neumann, David |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | G1400206 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
Refugees and migrants mobility affects health, productivity, active citizenship, social integration and security: Investigating causes and solution i Europe, in Australia n the global context$7,989
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Dr Loretta Eterno, Professor Orazio Licciardello |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | G1500217 |
Type Of Funding | C3112 - Aust Not for profit |
Category | 3112 |
UON | Y |
How well do people fit their social group and thus should be stereotyped?$7,239
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Doctor Andrea Griffin, Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | G1500215 |
Type Of Funding | C3112 - Aust Not for profit |
Category | 3112 |
UON | Y |
20121 grants / $15,000
2011 Emerging Research Leaders Program$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Emerging Research Leaders Program |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2012 |
Funding Finish | 2012 |
GNo | G1201054 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20101 grants / $4,000
Growing Anxious of Ethnic Others: Investigating the role of Observational Learning and Prior Intergroup Contact in the Development of Intergroup Email.$4,000
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Doctor Andrea Griffin, Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2010 |
Funding Finish | 2010 |
GNo | G0900231 |
Type Of Funding | Grant - Aust Non Government |
Category | 3AFG |
UON | Y |
20082 grants / $14,500
The role of self-explanation and anxiety-reduction motives in the development of intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic relationships$12,000
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Ms Lameez Alexander |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0188516 |
Type Of Funding | Contract - Aust Non Government |
Category | 3AFC |
UON | Y |
Small Group Meeting on $2,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0189135 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20072 grants / $254,504
The Disproportionate Impact of Negative Contact on Category Salience and Prejudice: Explaining Why Intergroup Interactions Can Be Harmful$252,004
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Professor Jake Harwood, Associate Professor Mark Rubin |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2010 |
GNo | G0186257 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
Annual Conference of the (American) Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Chicago, Illinois, 11/10/2007 - 13/10/2007$2,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2007 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0188156 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20062 grants / $9,020
Cross-cultural differences in in-group identification$7,520
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Mark Rubin, Mr Milen Milanov, Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2006 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0186928 |
Type Of Funding | Contract - Aust Non Government |
Category | 3AFC |
UON | Y |
Small Group Conference $1,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2006 |
Funding Finish | 2006 |
GNo | G0186474 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20052 grants / $112,095
Investigating a New Explanation of Discrimination Against Migrant and Excluded People$110,000
Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)
Funding body | ARC (Australian Research Council) |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Mark Rubin, Associate Professor Stefania Paolini, Professor Richard Crisp |
Scheme | Discovery Projects |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2007 |
GNo | G0184345 |
Type Of Funding | Aust Competitive - Commonwealth |
Category | 1CS |
UON | Y |
The 14th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, 19-24 July 2005$2,095
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | G0185337 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20041 grants / $8,646
We get by with a little help from our friends - investigating mediators and moderators of cross-group friendship effects$8,646
Funding body: Keats Endowment Research Fund
Funding body | Keats Endowment Research Fund |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0183877 |
Type Of Funding | Contract - Aust Non Government |
Category | 3AFC |
UON | Y |
20021 grants / $7,000
'I Know Enough About Them. They are All Bad!': The Effects of Social Judgeability Considerations on Group Stereotyping$7,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Stefania Paolini |
Scheme | Early Career Researcher Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0181845 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2020 | PhD | Implementation and Testing of Corrective Interventions Promoting Intergroup Contact Between Young and Elderly People | PhD (Psychology - Science), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | Masters | Investigating Motivations and Emotions in Intergroup Contact | M Philosophy (Psychology), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2020 | PhD | Sleep Tight and Don't Let the Socioeconomic Inequality Bite! Relations Between Social Class, Sleep, and Mental and Physical Health | PhD (Psychology - Science), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | Conditioning Causes Shifts in Group Exemplars' Perceived Prototypicality: Investigating Mechanisms of Stereotype Formation and Change | PhD (Psychology - Science), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | When Does Independent Problem-Solving Have Negative Psychological Effects? Investigating the Moderating Effect of Openness to Experience | PhD (Psychology - Science), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | An Investigation into the Acquisition, Generalization, Facilitation and Immunization of Intergroup Anxiety | PhD (Psychology - Science), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2014 | PhD | Predictors of L2 Attitudes and Motivational Intensity: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Saudi EFL Context | PhD (Linguistics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2011 | PhD | The Relationship Between Foreign Language Aptitude and English Language Proficiency Among Saudi Learners of English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Universities | PhD (Linguistics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2010 | PhD | The Use of Motivational Strategies in the Saudi EFL Classroom | PhD (Linguistics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2010 | PhD | Different Types of Ingroup Identification as a Function of Culture, Group Status, Attachment Style, and Group Type | PhD (Psychology - Science), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2010 | PhD | When Less is Sometimes More: Investigating the Interplay Between Meta-Cognition and Member-to-Group Generalisation | PhD (Psychology - Science), College of Engineering, Science and Environment, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2008 | PhD | English Language Attitudes and Motivation Among Adult Migrants in Australia | PhD (Linguistics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
News
Future research leaders receive funding boost
October 22, 2019
ARC Discovery Project funding success
November 21, 2014
Associate Professor Stefania Paolini
Position
Associate Professor
School of Psychology
College of Engineering, Science and Environment
Focus area
Psychology
Contact Details
stefania.paolini@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4921 5938 |
Fax | (02) 4921 6980 |
Office
Room | AVG02 (Callaghan); SO.E122 (Ourimbah) |
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Building | Science Offices. |
Location | Ourimbah 10 Chittaway Road Ourimbah, NSW 2258 Australia |