John Duckitt

Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88511
Email: j.duckitt@auckland.ac.nz
Room: HSB 644

My general interests lie in social psychology, with particular areas of interest in the interface between political and cross cultural psychologies, personality and social psychology. My primary areas of research are the study of intergroup hostility and conflict, prejudice, discrimination and stigmatisation, in the study of social and ideological attitudes such as authoritarianism and social dominance (inequality attitudes) and how they are cognitively structured and influence behaviour, and in social and collective identification and its implications for intergroup behaviour and personal functioning.

I have some expertise in psychometric methods and scaling, survey research methodology, and in areas of quantitative data analysis and statistics.

1. Refining and investigating a dual process model of the motivational bases of peoples’ ideological beliefs and intergroup hostility and conflict.
2. Investigating the structure of collective identifications and how they are related to behaviour and personal functioning.
3. Investigating the structure of social and ideological beliefs: violence attitudes and cultures of violence, beauty and attractiveness attitudes and their implications for social and personal behaviour.

Books

• Duckitt, J. (1992/1994). The Social Psychology of Prejudice. New York: Praeger Publishers.
• Renshon, S., & Duckitt, J. (Eds). (2000). Political Psychology: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Foundations. London: Macmillan/New York: New York University Press.

Book chapters

• Lin, E., & Duckitt, J. (in press). Intergenerational value change among European and Asian New Zealanders: Testing Inglehart’s post-materialist value change hypothesis. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Focus on Personality and Social Psychology Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
• Duckitt, J. (2006). Ethnocultural group identification and attitudes to ethnic outgroups. In G. Zhang, K. Leung, & J. Adair. (Eds.), Perspectives and Progress in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Psychology. Selected Papers from the Seventeenth International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Beijing, China: Light Industry Press.
• Duckitt, J. (2005). Personality and prejudice. In J. Dovidio, P. Glick, & L. Rudman (Eds.), On the nature of prejudice: Fifty years after Allport (pp. 395-412). Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell.

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