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Overview

Tegan Cruwys is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology, social sciences, and health professions. Their research covers a range of topics including clinical psychology, general health professions, health outcomes, and social psychology.

Their published works have appeared frequently in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Affective Disorders, and British Journal of Health Psychology.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tegan Cruwys include:

  • Life Change, Social Identity, and Health (2020) in Annual Review of Psychology
  • Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health (2021) in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • A social identity perspective on COVID-19: Health risk is affected by shared group membership (2020) in British Journal of Social Psychology
  • When trust goes wrong: A social identity model of risk taking (2020) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification (2021) in Social Science & Medicine

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Catherine Haslam
  • S. Alexander Haslam
  • Mark R. Stevens
  • Jolanda Jetten
  • Joanne A. Rathbone

Major publication venues where Tegan Cruwys has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • British Journal of Health Psychology

Their research explores main topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Behavioral health and interventions
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Community health and development
  • Social and intergroup psychology
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder research
  • Eating disorders and behaviors

Tegan Cruwys has also contributed to academic literature with a forthcoming book titled Groups 4 Health, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Social modeling of eating: A review of when and why social influence affects food intake and choice.

    Tegan Cruwys;Kirsten E. Bevelander;Roel C.J. Hermans

  • The New Psychology of Health : Unlocking the Social Cure

    Catherine Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Tegan Cruwys;Genevieve A. Dingle

  • Depression and Social Identity An Integrative Review

    Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam;Genevieve A. Dingle;Catherine Haslam

  • Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse

    Tegan Cruwys;Genevieve A. Dingle;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • From “we” to “me”: Group identification enhances perceived personal control with consequences for health and well-being.

    Katharine H. Greenaway;S. Alexander Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;Nyla R. Branscombe

  • Advancing the social identity approach to health and well-being: Progressing the social cure research agenda

    Jolanda Jetten;S. Alexander Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;Katharine H. Greenaway

  • Groups 4 Health: Evidence that a social-identity intervention that builds and strengthens social group membership improves mental health

    Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam;Genevieve Dingle

  • Social identities promote well‐being because they satisfy global psychological needs

    Katharine H. Greenaway;Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam;Jolanda Jetten

  • Having a lot of a good thing: multiple important group memberships as a source of self-esteem.

    Jolanda Jetten;Nyla R Branscombe;S Alexander Haslam;Catherine Haslam

  • Together apart: The psychology of COVID-19.

    Jolanda Jetten;Stephen D. Reicher;S. Alexander Haslam;Tegan Cruwys

  • 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

  • Social Identities as Pathways into and out of Addiction

    Genevieve A. Dingle;Tegan Cruwys;Daniel Frings

  • Social cure, what social cure? The propensity to underestimate the importance of social factors for health.

    S. Alexander Haslam;Charlotte McMahon;Tegan Cruwys;Catherine Haslam

  • Breaking good: breaking ties with social groups may be good for recovery from substance misuse

    Genevieve A. Dingle;Claire Stark;Tegan Cruwys;David Best

  • Social connectedness improves public mental health: Investigating bidirectional relationships in the New Zealand attitudes and values survey:

    Alexander K Saeri;Tegan Cruwys;Fiona Kate Barlow;Samantha Stronge

  • “The we's have it”: Evidence for the distinctive benefits of group engagement in enhancing cognitive health in aging

    Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Social identification-building interventions to improve health: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Niklas K Steffens;Crystal J LaRue;Catherine Haslam;Zoe C Walter

  • Stressful life transitions and wellbeing: A comparison of the stress buffering hypothesis and the social identity model of identity change.

    Nurul F. Praharso;Morgan J. Tear;Tegan Cruwys

  • The social psychology of responses to trauma: social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses

    Orla T. Muldoon;S. Alexander Haslam;Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys

  • GROUPS 4 HEALTH reduces loneliness and social anxiety in adults with psychological distress: Findings from a randomized controlled trial.

    Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;Melissa X. L. Chang;Sarah V. Bentley

  • Social Identity Mapping: A procedure for visual representation and assessment of subjective multiple group memberships.

    Tegan Cruwys;Niklas K. Steffens;S. Alexander Haslam;Catherine Haslam

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Catherine Haslam
Catherine Haslam University of Queensland
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Genevieve A. Dingle
Genevieve A. Dingle University of Queensland
Niklas K. Steffens
Niklas K. Steffens University of Queensland
Katharine H. Greenaway
Katharine H. Greenaway University of Melbourne
Michael J. Platow
Michael J. Platow Australian National University
Nyla R. Branscombe
Nyla R. Branscombe University of Kansas
Jennifer Fleming
Jennifer Fleming University of Queensland
Linda Worrall
Linda Worrall University of Queensland

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