School of Psychological Science
Bendigo

		Ms Amy Brown Associate Lecturer		Phone: +61 3 5444 7389 Fax: +61 3 5444 7850 amy.brown@latrobe.edu.au Room 4.15 Arts Building
		BBSc (La Trobe), PGDipAppPsych (La Trobe)

My main research interests are in the broad area of social psychology, with emphasis on culture and politics. I am writing a PhD thesis which investigates Terror Management Theory predictions about alternative cultural worldview accommodation, or in other words, adopting different ways of life. Currently I work as an associate lecturer at La Trobe University, Bendigo campus, where I teach at all levels of the Bachelor of Psychological Science degree, mainly in the areas of social psychology and culture.

Professional Development Courses

• Culture and Psychology: Australasian Social Psychology Postgraduate Summer Program – Australian National University Coastal Campus, Australia (2008)
• Summer Institute in Political Psychology – Stanford University, USA (2006)
• Group-based identity, opinion, emotion and action: Australasian Summer School in Social Psychology – Australian National University Coastal Campus, Australia (2004)

Publications
Halloran, M. J., & Brown, A. K. (2007). Mortality salience and worldview defense: The role of self-esteem and culturally valued behaviour (pdf). In J. H. Liu, C. Ward, A. Bernardo, M. Karasawa, & R. Fischer (Eds.), Progress in Asian social psychology (Vol. 6, pp. 241-253). Seoul: Kyoyook-Kwahak-Sa.

Conference Presentations
Brown, A. K. & Halloran, M. J. (2009). Adopting the alternative worldviews of outgroup members: Evidence for the Terror Management Theory accommodation hypothesis. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Psychologists, Melbourne, Australia (16-19 April, 2009).

Brown, A. K. & Halloran, M. J. (2009). Adopting alternative worldviews: Further evidence for the Terror Management Theory accommodation hypothesis. Paper presented at the 2009 International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Self, Identity and Culture: East and West, Kolkata, India (6-9 January, 2009).

Brown, A. K. & Halloran, M. J. (2007). TMT and terrorism: Attitudes towards terrorists in response to mortality salience and real or imagined terrorism threats. Symposium paper presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Psychologists, Brisbane, Australia (12-15 April, 2007).

Brown, A. K. & Halloran, M. J. (2006). Accommodating culturally different others and their worldviews: Extending terror management theory. Symposium paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Psychologists, Canberra, Australia (20-23 April, 2006).