Staff profile

Dr Jennifer R. Spoor

Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Management

David Myers East, Room 326A, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD (Purdue)

Area of study

Business
Human Resource Management
Management

Brief profile

My background is in Social and Organisational Psychology. My research interests include Team Performance, Emotions in the Workplace, Social Identity, Gender, and Leadership.

Research interests

Managerial psychology and decision science

- Emotions and decision making (group and individual)

Social relations in organisations

- Group and intergroup relations at work; gender and diversity

Teaching units

MGT2OBE (Organisational Behaviour)

MGT3ISC (Interpersonal Skills & Conflict Management)

BUA5DPP (Developing People and Performance)

Recent publications

Refereed Journal Articles

     Esposo, S. R., Hornsey, M. J., & Spoor, J. R. (forthcoming). Shooting the messenger: Outsiders critical of your group are rejected regardless of argument quality. British Journal of Social Psychology. Published online 14 January 2013. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12024

     Moons, W. G., Spoor, J. R., Kalomiris, A. E., & Rizk, M. K. (forthcoming). Certainty broadcasts risk preferences: Verbal and nonverbal cues to risk-taking. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. Published online 17 January 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s10919-013-0146-0

     Spoor, J. R., & Schmitt, M. T. (2011). “Things are getting better” isn’t always better: Considering women’s progress affects perceptions of and reactions to contemporary gender inequality. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 33¸24-36. DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2010.539948

     Spoor, J. R., & Kelly J. R. (2009). Mood convergence in dyads: Effects of valence and leadership. Social Influence, 4(4), 282-297­. DOI: 10.1080/15534510902805366

     Kelly, J. R., & Spoor, J. R. (2007).  Naïve theories about the effects of mood in groups: A preliminary investigation.  Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10, 203-222. DOI: 10.1177/1368430207074727

     Spoor, J. R., & Kelly, J. R. (2004). The evolutionary significance of affect in groups: Communication and group bonding.  Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7, 398-412. DOI: 10.1177/1368430204046145

Book Chapters

     Kelly, J. R., & Spoor, J. R. (2013). Affective processes. In J. M. Levine (Ed.). Group processes (pp. 33-53). New York: Psychology Press.

     Schmitt, M. T., Spoor, J. R., Danaher, K., & Branscombe, N. R. (2009). Rose-colored glasses: How tokenism and comparisons with the past reduce the visibility of gender inequality. In M. Barreto, M. Ryan, & M. T. Schmitt (Eds.), The glass ceiling in the 21st century: Understanding barriers to gender equality (pp. 49-71). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

     Spoor, J. R., & Williams, K. D. (2007). The evolution of an ostracism detection system. In J. P. Forgas, M. Haselton, & W. von Hippel (Eds.), The evolution of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and social cognition (pp. 279-292). New York: Psychology Press.

     Kelly, J. R., & Spoor, J. R. (2006). Affective influence in groups. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), Affect in social thinking and behavior (pp. 311-325). New York: Psychology Press.

     Meyers, R. A., Berdahl, J. L., Brashers, D. E., Considine, J. R., Kelly, J. R., Moore, C., Peterson, J. L., & Spoor, J. R. (2005). Investigating groups from a feminist perspective. In M. S. Poole & A. B. Hollingshead (Eds.), Theories of small groups: Integrative perspectives (pp. 241-276). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Research projects

Emotions in individual and group decision making

Gender and sport

Diversity management

Teaching of diversity and social issues