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School of Psychological Science

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DR MICHAEL HALLORAN BA, GradDip App Soc Psych Swinburne, GradDip Erg La Trobe, PhD Swinburne HEAD OF PSYCHOLOGY SECTION Course cooordinator 3rd year coordinator 3rd year Social & Community Psychology coordinator Phone: +61 2 6024 9890 Fax: +61 2 6024 9867 m.halloran@latrobe.edu.au Room 4247 Building 4

Hello
My name is Michael Halloran. I am the Head of Section at the Albury-Wodonga campus, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University. My role as Head of Section is, in consultation with the Head of School and academic staff in the School of Psychological Science, to ensure that objectives of the School are met. Our objectives in Psychology at Albury-Wodonga are to conduct internationally recognized research, provide quality undergraduate and postgraduate training in Psychology, engage the School in the wider University and local communities, and develop a strong culture of research and learning.

My own research is about developing and applying knowledge from Social Psychology to understanding of intergroup relations, social identity, cultural maintenance and change, attitude change, existential anxiety and Indigenous issues. I collaborate with a number of international researchers and have a range of research projects that involve my postgraduate students. With my research partners, I have published a number of research papers and book chapters, and presented research at a range of national and international conferences.

I contribute to the teaching of undergraduate social and cross-cultural psychology in School of Psychological Science, in the units PSY1PYB, PSY2PYB, PSY3PYB, PSY3SCB. I am also the Coordinator of PSY3SCB, Social and Community Psychology, and contribute lectures in our Honours Program.

While life in the School of Psychology moves along at a rapid pace, I enjoy the opportunity to contribute to knowledge about human behaviour, foster the academic successes of La Trobe Psychology students, and discuss the state of world over a good coffee.

Memberships and Associations
Association for Psychological Science
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for Australasian Social Psychologists (Current Treasurer)

Recent Publications
Beatson, R., Loughnan, S., & Halloran, M. J. (2009). Attitudes towards animals: The effect of priming thoughts of human-animal similarities and mortality salience on the evaluation of companion animals. Animals and Society, 17 , 72-89.

Tanti, C., Stukas A. A., Halloran, M. J. (2008). Tripartite Self-concept Change: Shifts in the Individual, Relational, and Collective Self in Adolescence. Self and Identity , 7 , 360-379.

Halloran, M. (2007). Culture. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. (pp 210-212). London, UK: Sage Press.

Beatson, R., & Halloran, M. (2007). Humans Rule!: The effects of creatureliness reminders, mortality salience, and self-esteem on attitudes toward animals. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 619-632.

Halloran, M. (2007). Indigenous Reconciliation in Australia: Do values, identity, and collective guilt matter? Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 17, 1-18.

Halloran, M. J., & Brown, A. K. (2007). Mortality salience and worldview defense: The role of self-esteem and culturally valued behaviour. Progress in Asian Social Psychology, 6, 241-253.

Takemura, K., Yuki, M., Kashima, E., & Halloran, M. (2007). A cross-cultural comparison of behaviours and independent/interdependent self-views. Progress in Asian Social Psychology, 5, 105-119.

Halloran, M., & Kashima, E. (2006). Culture, social identity, and the individual. In T. Postmes & J. Jetten (Eds.) Individuality and the group: Advances in social identity . Sage Press.

Halloran, M. (2004). Cultural trauma and recovery in Indigenous Australia. Murdoch University E-Law Journal

Halloran, M., & Kashima, E. S. (2004). Social identity and worldview validation: The influence of ingroup identity primes on mortality salience effects. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 30 , 915-925.

Kashima, E. S., Halloran, M., Yuki, M., & Kashima, Y. (2004). The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 40 , 384-392

Salzman, M., & Halloran, M. (2004). Culture, meaning, self-esteem and the re-construction of the cultural worldview. In J. Greenberg, S. L. Koole, & T. Pyszczynski (Eds.) Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology . Guilford Press.