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Matthew J. Hornsey

Matthew J. Hornsey

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Psychology

D-Index
74
Citations
23396
World Ranking
1868
National Ranking
92

Overview

Matthew J. Hornsey is a researcher affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Health.

Their research overview includes work on topics such as misinformation and its impacts, climate change communication and perception, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, environmental education and sustainability, social and intergroup psychology, the nonprofit sector and volunteering, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Some of the notable recent papers authored by Matthew J. Hornsey are:

  • Donald Trump and vaccination: The effect of political identity, conspiracist ideation and presidential tweets on vaccine hesitancy (2020) - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine (2020) - Social Science & Medicine
  • Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science (2020) - Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A COVID-19 test case (2021) - European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems (2022) - Nature Climate Change

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Cassandra M. Chapman
  • Samuel Pearson
  • Kai Sassenberg
  • Fiona Kate Barlow
  • Nicole Gillespie

Matthew J. Hornsey's publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (6 publications)
  • Nature Climate Change (5 publications)
  • Journal of Environmental Psychology (5 publications)
  • European Journal of Social Psychology (4 publications)
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Social Identity Theory and Self‐categorization Theory: A Historical Review

    Matthew J. Hornsey

  • Meta-analyses of the determinants and outcomes of belief in climate change

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Emily A. Harris;Paul G. Bain;Kelly S. Fielding

  • Assimilation and Diversity: An Integrative Model of Subgroup Relations:

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Michael A. Hogg

  • The Contact Caveat Negative Contact Predicts Increased Prejudice More Than Positive Contact Predicts Reduced Prejudice

    Fiona Kate Barlow;Stefania Paolini;Anne Pedersen;Matthew J. Hornsey

  • The psychological roots of anti-vaccination attitudes: A 24-nation investigation.

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Emily A. Harris;Kelly S. Fielding

  • The Individual Within the Group: Balancing the Need to Belong With the Need to Be Different

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Jolanda Jetten

  • Subgroup Relations: A Comparison of Mutual Intergroup Differentiation and Common Ingroup Identity Models of Prejudice Reduction

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Michael A. Hogg

  • A Social Identity Analysis of Climate Change and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: Insights and Opportunities.

    Kelly Shanene Fielding;Matthew J Hornsey

  • Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers

    Paul G. Bain;Matthew J. Hornsey;Renata Bongiorno;Carla Jeffries

  • Relationships among conspiratorial beliefs, conservatism and climate scepticism across nations

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Emily A. Harris;Kelly S. Fielding

  • Effects of Psychological Contract Breach on Organizational Citizenship Behaviour: Insights from the Group Value Model

    Simon Lloyd D. Restubog;Matthew J. Hornsey;Prashant Bordia;Sarah R. Esposo

  • Why Do People Engage in Collective Action? Revisiting the Role of Perceived Effectiveness

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Leda Blackwood;Winnifred Louis Louis;Kelly Fielding

  • Attitude roots and Jiu Jitsu persuasion: Understanding and overcoming the motivated rejection of science.

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Kelly S. Fielding

  • Criticizing Groups from the Inside and the Outside: An Identity Perspective on the Intergroup Sensitivity Effect

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Armin Imani

  • Deviance and Dissent in Groups

    Jolanda Jetten;Matthew J. Hornsey

  • What makes a group worth dying for? Identity fusion fosters perception of familial ties, promoting self-sacrifice.

    William B. Swann;Michael D. Buhrmester;Angel Gómez;Jolanda Jetten

  • Moral expansiveness: Examining variability in the extension of the moral world.

    Daniel Crimston;Paul G Bain;Matthew J Hornsey;Brock Bastian

  • On being loud and proud: non-conformity and counter-conformity to group norms.

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Louise K. Majkut;Deborah J. Terry;Blake M. McKimmie

  • “It's OK if we say it, but you can't”: responses to intergroup and intragroup criticism

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Tina Oppes;Alicia Svensson

  • Feeling connected again: Interventions that increase social identification reduce depression symptoms in community and clinical settings

    Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam;Genevieve A. Dingle;Jolanda Jetten

  • Theorizing Gender in the Face of Social Change: Is There Anything Essential About Essentialism?

    Thomas A. Morton;Tom Postmes;S. Alexander Haslam;Matthew J. Hornsey

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiona Kate Barlow
Fiona Kate Barlow University of Queensland
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Kelly S. Fielding
Kelly S. Fielding University of Queensland
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
Paul G. Bain
Paul G. Bain University of Bath
Winnifred R. Louis
Winnifred R. Louis University of Queensland
Katharine H. Greenaway
Katharine H. Greenaway University of Melbourne
Michael A. Hogg
Michael A. Hogg Claremont Graduate University
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Cindy Gallois
Cindy Gallois University of Queensland

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