Prof Rupert Brown

Biography

B.Sc. in Psychology (University of Edinburgh), 1972.

Ph.D. in Social Psychology (University of Bristol), 1979.

Academic Appointments

1978-2003 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Social Psychology, University of Kent.

2004- Professor of Social Psychology, University of Sussex.

2009- Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

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Role

Post: Professor of Social Psychology (School of Psychology)

Other posts: Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange (School of Psychology)

Community and Business

I am interested in collaborating with community groups, local and national government offices and NGOs in the development and evaluation of social interventions that will promote better social inclusion and more harmonious intergroup relationships.

My interests are broadly in group processes and intergroup relations. I am pursuing six related strands of research:

1. Prejudice and prejudice reduction through intergroup contact. More generally, I am interested in discovering factors which promote more favourable intergroup attitudes in a variety of contexts (e.g. national, interethnic, indigenous and non-indigenous).

2. Intergroup emotions and especially the role that guilt and shame (at both an individual and collective level) play in determining people's response to outgroup members.

3. Acculturation processes, especially in ethnic minority-majority contexts; factors that promote more effective integration of majority group members and various minority groups (ethnic, immigrant, refugee, asylum-seekers)

4. Social identity processes and their relationship to various social phenomena.

5. Hate crime, especially its direct and indirect effects on victims.

6. Team-building in organisations.

I currently supervise 4 doctoral students, Cecilia Cordeu, Harriet Fearn, Will Thomas and Sarah Woodhouse.

Current research grants:

"The indirect experience of hate crime: the victim group response", Leverhulme Trust (with Mark Walters).

"Optimising refugee resettlement in the UK: a comparative analysis", ESRC (with Mike Collyer and Linda Morrice).

I also collaborate with,

Hanna Zagefka (Royal Holloway, University of London) on acculturation processes and factors affecting charitable donations.

Roberto Gonzalez (Pontifica University, Santiago, Chile) on intergroup relations between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Sabina Cehajic (Sarajevo School of Science and Technology) on post-conflict intergroup reconciliation in Bosnia.

Dora Capozza (Padova University, Italy) on social identity processes.

Adam Rutland (Goldsmiths) and Krista Aronson (Bates College, USA) on acculturation processes in young children.

Cristina Stefanile, Camilla Matera and Jacopo Grisolaghi (Firenze University, Italy) on interventions to reduce prejudice in young children

Karen Phalet and Gulseli Baysu (Leuven University, Belgium) on acculturation and educational performance

Jeremy Holt (Centre for Team Excellence, Brighton) on team-building in organisations.

I am also co-editor (together with Sam Gaertner) of Social Issues and Policy Review, one of the flagship journals of Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (http://www.spssi.org). Anyone with an idea to write an article for this journal should contact either of the editors at gaertner@udel.edu  or r.brown@sussex.ac.uk

I am Chief Editor of European Monographs in Social Psychology (Psychology Press). Prospective authors with ideas for books in the series should contact me directly.

I convene and teach on our introductory course, Individuals and Groups. I also teach an advanced undergraduate course on Prejudice as well as contributing to the MSc in Applied Social Psychology. I supervise final year and Masters projects in areas of my expertise.

Rees, Jonas H, Allpress, Jesse A and Brown, Rupert (2013) Nie wieder: group-based emotions for in-group wrongdoing affect attitudes toward unrelated minorities. Political Psychology, 34 (3). pp. 387-407. ISSN 0162-895X

Owe, Ellinor, Vignoles, Vivian L, Becker, Maja, Brown, Rupert, Smith, Peter B, Lee, Spike W S, Easterbrook, Matt, Gadre, Tanuja, Zhang, Xiao, Gheorghiu, Mirona, Baguma, Peter, Tatarko, Alexander, Aldhafri, Said, Zinkeng, Martina, Schwartz, Seth J, Des Rosiers, Sabrina E, Villamar, Juan A, Mekonnen, Kassahun H and et al, (2013) Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism: personhood beliefs across 37 national groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44 (1). pp. 24-45. ISSN 0022-0221

Rutland, Adam, Cameron, Lindsey, Jugert, Philipp, Nigbur, Dennis, Brown, Rupert, Watters, Charles, Hossain, Rosa, Landau, Anick and Le Touze, Dominique (2012) Group identity and peer relations: a longitudinal study of group identity, perceived peer acceptance and friendships amongst ethnic minority English children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 30 (2). pp. 283-302. ISSN 0261-510X

Gausel, Nicolay, Leach, Colin Wayne, Vignoles, Vivian L. and Brown, Rupert (2012) Defend or repair? Explaining responses to in-group moral failure by disentangling feelings of shame, rejection, and inferiority. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102 (5). pp. 941-960. ISSN 0022-3514

Becker, Maja, Vignoles, Vivian L, Owe, Ellinor, Brown, Rupert, Smith, Peter B., Easterbrook, Matt, Herman, Ginette, de Sauvage, Isabelle, Bourguignon, David, Torres, Ana, Camino, Leoncio, Lemos, Flávia Cristina Silveira, Ferreira, M. Cristina, Koller, Silvia H., González, Roberto, Carrasco, Diego, Cadena, Maria Paz, Lay, Siugmin, Wang, Qian, Bond, Michael Harris, Trujillo, Elvia Vargas, Balanta, Paola, Valk, Aune, Mekonnen, Kassahun Habtamu, Nizharadze, George, Fülöp, Marta, Regalia, Camillo, Manzi, Claudia, Brambilla, Maria, Harb, Charles, Aldhafri, Said, Martin, Mariana, Macapagal, Ma. Elizabeth J., Chybicka, Aneta, Gavreliuc, Alin, Buitendach, Johanna, Gallo, Inge Schweiger, Özgen, Emre, Güner, Ülkü E. and Yamakoğlu, Nil (2012) Culture and the distinctiveness motive: constructing identity in individualistic and collectivistic contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102 (4). pp. 833-855. ISSN 0022-3514

Tip, Linda K, Zagefka, Hanna, González, Roberto, Brown, Rupert, Cinnirella, Marco and Na, Xue (2012) Is support for multiculturalism threatened by ... threat itself? International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36 (1). pp. 22-30. ISSN 0147-1767

Brown, Rupert, deVisser, Richard, Dittmar, Helga, Drury, John, Farsides, Tom, Jessop, Donna and Sparks, Paul (2012) Social psychology and policy-making: past neglect, future promise. Public Policy Research, 18 (4). pp. 227-234. ISSN 1744-5396

Brown, Rupert and Zagefka, Hanna (2011) The dynamics of acculturation: an intergroup perspective. In: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. Academic Press (Elsevier), San Diego, CA, pp. 129-184. ISBN 9780123855220

Zagefka, Hanna, Noor, Masi, Brown, Rupert, Randsley de Moura, Georgina and Hopthrow, Tim (2011) Donating to disaster victims: responses to natural and humanly caused events. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41. pp. 353-363.

Baysu, Gülseli, Phalet, Karen and Brown, Rupert (2011) Dual Identity as a Two Edged Sword: Identity Threat and Minority School Performance. Social Psychology Quarterly, 74. pp. 1221-143.

Zagefka, Hanna, Gonzalez, Roberto and Brown, Rupert (2011) How minority members' perceptions of majority members' acculturation preferences shape minority members' own acculturation preferences: Evidence from Chile. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50. pp. 216-233.

Pehrson, Samuel, González, Roberto and Brown, Rupert (2011) Indigenous Rights in Chile: National Identity and Majority Group Support for Multicultural Policies. Political Psychology, 32. pp. 667-690.

Matera, Camilla, Stefanile, Cristina and Brown, Rupert (2011) The role of immigrant acculturation preferences and generational status in determining majority intergroup attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47. pp. 776-785.

Esses, Victoria M, Deaux, Kay, Lalonde, Richard N and Brown, Rupert (2010) Psychological Perspectives on Immigration. Journal of Social Issues, 66 (4). pp. 635-647. ISSN 0022-4537

Kessler, Thomas, Mummendey, Amélie, Funke, Friedrich, Brown, Rupert, Binder, Jens, Zagefka, Hanna, Leyens, Jacques-Philippe, Demoulin, Stéphanie and Maquil, Annemie (2010) We all live in Germany but ... Ingroup projection, group-based emotions and prejudice against immigrants. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40 (6). pp. 985-997. ISSN 0046-2772

De Tezanos-Pinto, Pablo, Bratt, Christopher and Brown, Rupert (2010) What will the others think? In-group norms as a mediator of the effects of intergroup contact. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (3). pp. 507-523. ISSN 0144-6665

Cehajic, Sabina and Brown, Rupert (2010) Silencing the Past: Effects of intergroup contact on acknowledgment of ingroup responsibility. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1 (2). pp. 190-196. ISSN 1948-5506

Sharma, Dinkar, Booth, Rob, Brown, Rupert and Huguet, Pascal (2010) Exploring the temporal dynamics of social facilitation in the Stroop task. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17 (1). pp. 62-68. ISSN 1069-9384

Allpress, Jesse A, Barlow, Fiona Kate, Brown, Rupert and Louis, Winnifred R (2010) Atoning for colonial injustices: group-based shame and guilt motivate support for reparation. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 4 (1). pp. 75-88. ISSN 1864-1385

Brown, Rupert (2010) Prejudice: Its Social Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781405113076

Cehajic, Sabina, Brown, Rupert and Gonzalez, Roberto (2009) What do I care? Perceived ingroup responsibility and dehumanization as predictors of empathy felt for the victim group. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 12 (6). pp. 715-729. ISSN 1368-4302

Zagefka, Hanna, Brown, Rupert and González, Roberto (2009) Antecedents and consequences ofacculturation preferences of non-indigenous Chileans in relation to an indigenous minority: Longitudinal survey evidence. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39 (4). pp. 558-575. ISSN 0046-2772

Binder, Jens, Zagefka, Hanna, Brown, Rupert, Funke, Friedrich, Kessler, Thomas, Mummendey, Amélie, Maquil, Annemie, Demoulin, Stephanie and Leyens, Jacques-Philippe (2009) Does contact reduce prejudice or does prejudice reduce contact? A longitudinal test of the Contact Hypothesis amongst majority and minority groups in three European countries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96 (4). pp. 843-856. ISSN 0022-3514

Pehrson, Samuel, Vignoles, Vivian L and Brown, Rupert (2009) National Identification and anti-immigrant sentiment: individual and contextual effects of national definitions. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72 (1). pp. 24-38. ISSN 0190-2725

Pehrson, Sam, Brown, Rupert and Zagefka, Hanna (2009) When does national identification lead to the rejection of immigrants? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for the role of essentialist ingroup definitions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48 (1). pp. 61-76. ISSN 0144-6665

Nigbur, Dennis, Brown, Rupert, Cameron, Lindsey, Hossain, Rosa, Landau, Anick, Le Touze, Dominique, Rutland, Adam and Watters, Charles (2008) Acculturation, well-being and classroom behaviour among white British and British Asian primary-school children in the south-east of England: Validating a child-friendly measure of acculturation attitudes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 32 (6). pp. 493-504. ISSN 0147-1767

Noor, Masi, Brown, Rupert and Prentice, Garry (2008) Precursors and mediators of intergroup reconciliation in Northern Ireland: a new model. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47 (3). pp. 481-495. ISSN 0144-6665

Čehajić, Sabina and Brown, Rupert (2008) Not in my name: a social psychological study of antecedents and consequences of acknowledgement of ingroup atrocities. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 3 (2). pp. 195-211. ISSN 1911-0359

Sharma, Dinkar, Massey-Booth, Rob, Brown, Rupert and Huguet, Pascal (2008) Social facilitation in the Stroop task and the role of strategic inhibition. International Journal of Psychology, 43 (3-4). p. 654. ISSN 0020-7594

Brown, Rupert and Cehajic, Sabina (2008) Dealing with the past and facing the future: mediators of the effects of collective guilt and shame in Bosnia Herzegovina. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38 (4). 669¿684. ISSN 0046-2772

Cehajic, Sabina, Brown, Rupert and Castano, Emanuele (2008) Forgive and Forget?:Antecedents and consequences of intergroup forgiveness in Bosnia Herzegovina. Political Psychology, 29 (3). pp. 351-367. ISSN 0162-895X

Noor, Masi, Brown, Rupert, Gonzalez, Roberto, Manzi, Jorge and Lewis, Christopher Alan (2008) On positive psychological outcomes: what helps groups with a history of conflict to forgive and reconcile with each other. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34 (6). pp. 819-832. ISSN 0146-1672

Turner, Rhiannon N and Brown, Rupert (2008) Improving children's attitudes towards refugees: An evaluation of a school-based multicultural curricula and anti-racist intervention. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38 (5). 1295¿1328. ISSN 0021-9029

Giner-Sorolla, Roger, Castano, Emanuele, Espinosa, Pablo and Brown, Rupert (2008) Shame expressions reduce the recipient's insult from outgroup reparations. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 (3). pp. 519-526. ISSN 0022-1031

Brown, Rupert, Gonzalez, Roberto, Zagefka, Hanna, Manzi, Jorge and Cehajic, Sabina (2008) Nuestra Culpa: collective guilt as a predictor for reparation for historical wrongdoing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94 (1). pp. 75-90. ISSN 0022-3514

Noor, Masi, Brown, Rupert and Prentice, Garry (2008) Prospects for intergroup reconciliation: social-psychological predictors of intergroup forgiveness and reparation in Northern Ireland and Chile. In: The social psychology of intergroup reconciliation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195300314

Cameron, Lindsey, Rutland, Adam and Brown, Rupert (2007) Promoting children's positive intergroup attitudes towards stigmatized groups: Extended contact and multiple classification skills training. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31 (5). pp. 454-466. ISSN 0165-0254

Brown, Rupert, Eller, Anja, Leeds, Sarah and Stace, Kim (2007) Intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: a longitudinal study. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37 (4). pp. 692-703. ISSN 0046-2772

Zagefka, Hanna, Brown, Rupert, Broquard, Murielle and Leventoglu Martin, Sibel (2007) Predictors and consequences of negative attitudes towards immigrants in Beligium and Turkey: The role of accultuation preferences and economic competition. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46 (1). pp. 153-169. ISSN 0144-6665

Rutland, Adam, Brown, Rupert J, Cameron, Lindsey, Ahmavaara, Anni, Arnold, Katie and Samson, Jenni (2007) Development of the positive-negative asymmetry effect: ingroup exclusion norm as a mediator of children's evaluations on negative attributes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37 (1). pp. 171-190.

Pfafferott, Inga and Brown, Rupert (2006) Acculturation Preferences of Majority and Minority Adolescents in Germany in the the context of society and family. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 30 (6). pp. 703-717. ISSN 0147-1767

Gonzalez, Roberto and Brown, Rupert (2006) Dual identities in intergroup contact: group status and size moderate the generalization of positive attitude change. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42 (6). pp. 753-767. ISSN 0022-1031

Brown, Rupert J and Zagefka, Hanna (2006) Choice of comparisons in intergroup settings: the role of temporal information and comparison motives. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36 (5). pp. 649-671. ISSN 0046-2772

Cameron, Lindsey, Rutland, Adam, Brown, Rupert and Douch, Rebecca (2006) Changing children's intergroup attitudes towards refugees: testing different models of extended contact. Child Development, 77 (5). pp. 1208-1219. ISSN 0009-3920

Brown, Rupert and Capozza, Dora (2006) Motivational, emotional, and cultural influences in social identity processes. In: Social identities: motivational, emotional, cultural influences. Psychology Press, Hove, pp. 3-29. ISBN 9781841695495

Brown, Rupert and Capozza, Dora, eds. (2006) Social Identities: motivational, emotional and cultural influences. Psychology Press. ISBN 9781841695495

Zagefka, Hanna and Brown, Rupert (2005) Comparisons and perceived deprivation in ethnic minority settings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31 (4). pp. 467-482. ISSN 0146-1672

Brown, Rupert and Hewstone, Miles (2005) An integrative theory of intergroup contact. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 37. pp. 255-343. ISSN 0065-2601

Mummendey, Amélie, Klink, Andreas and Brown, Rupert (2001) A rejoinder to our critics and some of their misapprehensions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40. pp. 187-191.

Brown, Rupert (2001) Group Processes: dynamics within and between groups. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780631184966

Brown, Rupert (2000) Social identity theory: past achievements, current problems and future challenges. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30 (6). pp. 745-778. ISSN 0046-2772