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BBSc (Hons)
PhD

 

 

Anthony Lyons - Research Fellow

Disciplinary expertise

Social Psychology

Broad approach

In all my research, I seek to understand how individual behaviour is shaped and understood through collective behaviour, society, education, and culture. I make use of a wide array of quantitative analyses as well as qualitative analysis in research on health-related behaviours, social responsibility, and social disadvantage.

Current projects
 

I am currently working on a series of publications on men’s and women’s sexual health.

Publications:

 

Kurz, T. & Lyons, A. (in press). Inter-group influences on the stereotype-consistency bias in communication: Does it matter who we are communicating about and to whom we are communicating? Social Cognition.

Klein, O., Clark, A., & Lyons, A. (in press). When the social becomes personal: Exploring the role of common ground in stereotype communication. Social Cognition (special issue).

Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Bain, P., Lyons, A., Tindale, R.S., Robins, G., Vears, C., & Whelan, J. (in press). Communication and essentialism: Grounding the shared reality of a social category. Social Cognition (special issue).

Lyons, A., Clark, A., Kashima, Y., Kurz, T. (2008). Cultural dynamics of stereotyping: Social networks processes and the perpetuation of stereotypes. In Y. Kashima, K. Fiedler, P. Freytag (Eds.), Stereotype dynamics: Language-based approaches to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of stereotypes (pp. 59-42). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lyons, A. & Kashima, Y. (2006). Maintaining stereotypes in communication: Investigating memory biases and coherence-seeking in storytelling. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 9, 59-71.

McIntyre, A., Lyons, A., Clark, A., Kashima, Y. (2004). The microgenesis of culture: Serial reproduction as an experimental simulation of cultural dynamics. In M. Schaller, C. Crandall (Eds.), The psychological foundations of culture (pp. 227-258). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lyons, A. & Kashima, Y. (2003). How are stereotypes maintained through communication? The influence of stereotype sharedness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 989-1005.

Conference Presentations:
 

Lyons, A. & Tandos, J. Psychotherapy and spirituality. Oceania Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, August, 2008.  

Lyons, A. What is the heart? Australian Psychological Society, Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group seminar series. Melbourne, Australia, July, 2008.

Lyons, A. How people subtly communicate stereotypes and prejudice. Newcastle University Research Seminar, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, October, 2004.

Lyons, A. A perpetual cycle: How stereotype sharedness leads to ongoing sharedness and maintenance of social stereotypes. Special Group Meeting: Language-based Approaches to Stereotype Research. Heidelberg, Germany, June, 2003.

Contact details

Email: a.lyons@latrobe.edu.au

Tel: (03) 9285 5374

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