Personality & Social Psychology Laboratory

Staff

• Associate Professor Patrick Heaven
• Dr Joseph Ciarrochi
• Ms Nicola Ronan

Research Interests

• How emotion and stress affects decision making in applied settings.
• How emotional intelligence protects people from stress.
• How identification with certain groups interacts with personality in predicting adolescents’ emotional and behavioural adjustment.
• How psychophysiological processes and personality interact in predicting individuals’ levels of prejudice, and responses to violent images.

Students working in the Personality & Social Psychology Laboratory

Recent Publications

Books

• Ciarrochi, J., Forgas, J., & Mayer, J. (in press). Emotional intelligence in everyday life: A Scientific Inquiry. Psychology Press: New York.
• Furnham, A. & Heaven, P.C.L. (1999) Personality and social behaviour. London: Arnold. [Published jointly by Oxford University Press, New York.] Pp. xiii + 336.
• Heaven, P.C.L. (in press). Contemporary adolescence: A social psychological approach, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan.

Book chapters

• Forgas, J. & Ciarrochi, J. (in press). Affect infusion and affect control: The interactive role of conscious and unconscious processing strategies in mood management. In Y. Rossetti and A. Revonsuo (Eds.), Dissociation but Interaction Between Nonconscious and Conscious Processing. London: Benjamins Press.
• Forgas, J., Ciarrochi, J. & Moylan, S. (in press). Subjective experience and mood regulation: The role of information processing strategies. In H. Bless & J. Forgas (Eds.), The role of subjective experiences in social cognition. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
• Heaven, P.C.L. (in press). Prejudice and personality: The case of authoritarianism and social dominance orientation. In K. Reynolds & M. Augoustinos (Eds.), The psychology of racism and prejudice. London: Sage.

Journal Articles

• Bates, C. & Heaven, P.C.L. (in press). Attitudes to women in society: The role of social dominance orientation and social values. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology.
• Ciarrochi, J., & Forgas, J. (in press). The pleasure of possessions: The interactive effects of mood and personality on evaluations of personal effects. European Journal of Social Psychology.
• Ciarrochi, J.V., Chan, A.Y.C, & Caputi, P. (1999). A critical evaluation of the emotional intelligence construct. Personality & Individual Differences, 28, 539-561.
• Ciarrochi, J.V., & Forgas, J.P. (1999). On being tense yet tolerant: The paradoxical effects of trait anxiety and aversive mood on intergroup judgments. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research & Practice, 3, 227-238.
• Deane, F., Wilson, C., & Ciarrochi, J. (In press). Suicidal ideation and help-negation: It’s not just hopelessness or prior help. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
• Goldstein, M. & Heaven, P.C.L. (in press). Perceptions of the family, delinquency and emotional adjustment among youth. Personality & Individual Differences.
• Heaven, P.C.L. (1999). Group identities and human values. Journal of Social Psychology, 139, 590-595.
• Heaven, P.C.L. (1999). Attitudes to women’s rights: Relationships with social dominance orientation and political group identities. Sex Roles, 41, 605-614.
• Heaven, P.C.L. & Bucci, S. (in press). Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and personality: An analysis using the IPIP measure. European Journal of Personality.
• Heaven, P.C.L, & Oxman, L.N. (1999). Human values, conservatism and stereotypes of homosexuals. Personality & Individual Differences, 27, 109-118.
• Heaven, P.C.L., Stones, C., Simbayi, L. & Le Roux, A. (2000). Human values and social identities among samples of white and black South Africans. International Journal of Psychology.
• Heaven, P.C.L., Caputi, P., Trivellion-Scott, D. & Swinton, T. (2000). Personality and group influences on self-reported delinquent behaviour. Personality & Individual Differences, 28, 1143-1158.
• Heaven, P.C.L., Fitzpatrick, J., Craig, F.L., Kelly, P. & Sebar, G. (2000). Five personality factors and sex: Preliminary findings. Personality & Individual Differences, 28, 1133-1141.
• Heaven, P.C.L. & Virgen, M. (in press). Personality, perceptions of family and peer influences, and males’ self-reported delinquency. Personality & Individual Differences.
• Leeson, P., & Heaven, P.C.L. (1999). Social attitudes and personality. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51, 19-24.

Published Conference Abstracts

• Ciarrochi, J., Chan, A., & Caputi, P. (1999). A critical evaluation of the emotional intelligence construct. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51, 4.
• Heaven, P., Caputi, P., Trivellion-Scott, D., & Swinton, T. (1999). The group or the individual? Predictors of self-reported delinquency among youth. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51, 10.

• Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
• International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
• European Association for Personality Psychology
• Society for Personality & Social Psychology