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Overview

Michael J. Platow is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a significant focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Gender Studies.

Their work covers a range of topics within social and behavioral sciences, including:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Michael J. Platow has published multiple papers with noteworthy recent contributions such as:

  • Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality, 2020, Organizational Psychology Review
  • Better together: How group-based physical activity protects against depression, 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • "I'll eat meat because that's what we do": The role of national norms and national social identification on meat eating, 2021, Appetite
  • Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries, 2020, European Journal of Social Psychology

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Group Dynamics Theory Research and Practice
  • Comprehensive Psychiatry

Collaborating regularly with other researchers, Michael J. Platow's frequent co-authors include:

  • Tegan Cruwys
  • S. Alexander Haslam
  • Mark R. Stevens
  • Katherine J. Reynolds
  • Russell Spears

Best Publications

  • The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power

    S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen D. Reicher;Michael J. Platow

  • Retributive and restorative justice

    Michael Wenzel;Tyler G. Okimoto;Norman T. Feather;Michael J. Platow

  • Leadership: Theory and practice.

    S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen D. Reicher;Michael J. Platow

  • Leadership as social identity management: Introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model

    Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen D. Reicher;Michael J. Platow

  • A Social Identity Analysis of Leadership Endorsement: The Effects of Leader Ingroup Prototypicality and Distributive Intergroup Fairness

    Michael J. Platow;Daan van Knippenberg

  • The Link between Leadership and Followership: How Affirming Social Identity Translates Vision into Action

    S. Alexander Haslam;Michael J. Platow

  • Group-based trust in strangers: the role of stereotypes and expectations.

    Margaret Foddy;Michael J. Platow;Toshio Yamagishi

  • Unity Through Diversity: Value-in-Diversity Beliefs, Work Group Diversity, and Group Identification

    Daan van Knippenberg;S. Alexander Haslam;Michael J. Platow

  • Social Identity at Work : Developing Theory for Organizational Practice

    S. Alexander Haslam;Daan van Knippenberg;Michael J. Platow;Naomi Ellemers

  • A special gift we bestow on you for being representative of us: Considering leader charisma from a self-categorization perspective

    Michael J. Platow;Daan van Knippenberg;S. Alexander Haslam;Barbara van Knippenberg

  • Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality:

    Niklas K. Steffens;Katie A. Munt;Daan van Knippenberg;Michael J. Platow

  • Social Identity and the Romance of Leadership: The Importance of Being Seen To Be 'Doing It for Us'

    S. Alexander Haslam;Michael J. Platow;John C. Turner;Katherine J. Reynolds

  • The contribution of sport fan social identity to the production of prosocial behavior.

    Michael J. Platow;Maria Durante;Naeidra Williams;Matthew Garrett

  • Asia has the global advantage: Race and visual attention.

    Elinor McKone;Anne Aimola Davies;Anne Aimola Davies;Dinusha Fernando;Rachel Aalders

  • Beliefs about emotion: implications for avoidance-based emotion regulation and psychological health.

    Krista De Castella;Michael J. Platow;Maya Tamir;James J. Gross

  • PREDICTING INTERGROUP FAIRNESS AND INGROUP BIAS IN THE MINIMAL GROUP PARADIGM

    Michael J. Platow;Charles G. McClintock;Wim B. G. Liebrand

  • Endorsement of distributively fair and unfair leaders in interpersonal and intergroup situations.

    Michael J. Platow;Michael J. Platow;Stephanie Hoar;Scott Reid;Keryn Harley

  • “It’s not funny if they’re laughing”: Self-categorization, social influence, and responses to canned laughter

    Michael J. Platow;S. Alexander Haslam;Amanda Both;Ivanne Chew

  • Realizing the Diversity Dividend: Exploring the Subtle Interplay between Identity, Ideology, and Reality

    S. Alexander Haslam;Daan van Knippenberg;Michael J. Platow;Naomi Ellemers

  • Self-categorization, status, and social influence

    Julian A. Oldmeadow;Michael J. Platow;Margaret Foddy;Donna Anderson

  • Modeling of food intake is moderated by salient psychological group membership

    Tegan Cruwys;Michael J. Platow;Sarah A. Angullia;Jia Min Chang

  • Unity Through Diversity: Value-in-Diversity Beliefs, Work Group Diversity, and Group Identification

    D.L. van Knippenberg;S. Alexander Haslam;Michael J. Platow

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
Naomi Ellemers
Naomi Ellemers Utrecht University
Yoshihisa Kashima
Yoshihisa Kashima University of Melbourne
Daan van Knippenberg
Daan van Knippenberg Rice University
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Michael Wenzel
Michael Wenzel Flinders University
Tegan Cruwys
Tegan Cruwys Australian National University
Michelle K. Ryan
Michelle K. Ryan University of Exeter
Niklas K. Steffens
Niklas K. Steffens University of Queensland

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