Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0449982

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0449982

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Responding to self-conceptual uncertainty: Orthodoxy, diversity, and social identity in groups and society. Some groups in society are ethnocentric and xenophobic, embracing orthodoxy, homogeneity and hierarchy. They suppress diversity and dissent. Other groups embrace diversity, and are wary of homogeneity and hierarchy. Project explores the social psychology of identity and group membership, to answer the question why some groups are orthodox whereas others are diverse. Uncertainty about one's group identity is aversive; automatically motivating identification with groups that are distinct entities with sharp boundaries, consensual properties, and homogeneous membership. However, internally diverse groups can also be distinct (often better functioning) entities. Buffering of automatic reactions to uncertainty may favour diverse over orthodox groups.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $640,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Social And Community Psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Work not elsewhere classified |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Ethnicity and multiculturalism | Psychology | Social And Community Psychology | Work not elsewhere classified

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