Matthew J. Easterbrook
- Media Contact
- SPN Mentor
The groups that people are members of, and the social identities attached to these groups, can have profound consequences for people. I research how group memberships and social identities affect people in different socio-cultural contexts. I am currently focusing on the following
1. Social identities as psychological barriers in education: what are the socio-cultural conditions that gives rise to achievement gaps between social groups; how do identity processes contribute to these achievement gaps
2. The ‘social cure’ properties of group memberships: how do group memberships enhance well-being; why is it that they don't always
For my latest publications, please see my Sussex webpage: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/173988
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
Research Group or Laboratory:
Note from the Network: The holder of this profile has certified having all necessary rights, licenses, and authorization to post the files listed below. Visitors are welcome to copy or use any files for noncommercial or journalistic purposes provided they credit the profile holder and cite this page as the source.
Image Gallery
Journal Articles:
- Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M., … & Yamakoğlu, N. (2012). Culture and the distinctiveness motive: Constructing identity in individualistic and collectivistic contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 833-855. doi: 10.1037/a0026853
- Becker, M. Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Easterbrook, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., ...Koller, S. H. (2014). Cultural bases of self-evaluation: Seeing onself positively in different cultural contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/0146167214522836
- Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L. Owe, E., Easterbrook, M. J. Brown, R., … & Lay, S. (2018). Being oneself through time: Bases of self-continuity across 55 cultures. Self and Identity, 17, 276-293. DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2017.1330222.
- Berry, C. Easterbrook, M. J., Empson, L., & Fowler, D. (2019). Structured activity and multiple group memberships as mechanisms of increased depression among young people Not in Employment, Education or Training. Early Interventions in Psychiatry. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1111/eip.12798.
- Easterbrook, M. J., Kuppens, T., & Manstead, A. S. R. (In Press). The education effect: Higher educational qualifications are robustly associated with personal and socio-political outcomes. Social Indicators Research. doi: 10.1007/s11205-015-0946-1
- Easterbrook, M. J., & Vignoles, V. L. (2014). When friendship formation goes down the toilet: Design features of shared accommodation influence the development of interpersonal bonds and well-being. British Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 125-139. doi: 10.111/bjso.12062 .
- Easterbrook, M. J., Wright, M., Dittmar, H. E., & Banerjee, R. A. (in press). Consumer culture ideals, extrinsic motivations, and well-being in children. European Journal of Social Psychology.
- Easterbrook, M., & Vignoles, V. L. (2013). What does it mean to belong? Interpersonal bonds and intragroup similarities as predictors of felt belonging in different types of groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 455-462.
- Easterbrook, M., & Vignoles, V. L. (2012). Different groups, different motives: Identity motives underlying changes in identification with novel groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1066-1080.
- Howe, L. and Easterbrook, M. J. (2018) The perceived costs and benefits of pet ownership for homeless people in the UK: practical costs, psychological benefits and vulnerability. Journal of Poverty, 22, 486-499. DOI: 10.1080/10875549.2018.1460741.
- Kim, K., Ormiston, M. E., Easterbrook, M. J., & Vignoles, V. L. (2019). Ethnic dissimilarity predicts belonging motive frustration and reduced organizational attachment. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22, 116-138. DOI: 10.1177/1368430217733116.
- Kuppens, T., Easterbrook, M. J., Spears, R.., & Manstead, A. S. R. (in press). Life at both ends of the ladder: Education-based identification and its association with well-being and social attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1260-1275. doi: 10.1177/0146167215594122
- Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Manstead, A. S., Spruyt, B., & Easterbrook, M. J. (2018). Educationism and the irony of meritocracy: Negative attitudes of higher educated people towards the less educated. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 429-447. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.11.001.
- Kyprianides, A. Easterbrook, M. J. & Cruwys, T. (2019). “I changed and hid my old ways”: How social rejection and social identities shape wellbeing among ex-prisoners. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Advanced Online Publications. DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12582
- Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Lee, S. W. S., Easterbrook, M., … & Jalal, B. (2012). Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism: Personhood beliefs across 37 national groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44, 24-45.
- Stevenson, C., Easterbrook, M. J., Harkin, L., McNamara, N., Kellezi, B. & Shuttleworth, I. (2018) Neighbourhood identity helps residents cope with residential diversification: contact in increasingly mixed neighbourhoods of Northern Ireland. Political Psychology. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1111/pops.12510.
- Stevenson, C., McNamara, N., Kellezi, B., Easterbrook, M.J., Shuttleworth, I. & Hyden, D. (2018) Re-identifying Residential Mixing: Emergent Identity Dynamics Between Incomers and Existing Residents in a Mixed Neighbourhood in Northern Ireland. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 413-428. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2529.
- Thomas, W. E., Brown, R., Easterbrook, M. J., Vignoles, Manzi, Holt. (2018). Team level identification predicts perceived and actual team performance: Longitudinal multilevel analyses with sports teams. British Journal of Social Psychology. Advanced online publication. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12277.
Other Publications:
- Easterbrook, M. J. (2014, May 14). Constructing self-esteem across cultures. Society for Social and Personality Psychology Blog. Retrieved from http://www.spspblog.org/constructing-self-esteem-across-cultures/
- Easterbrook, M. J., Manstead, A. S. R, & Kuppens, T. (2014, July 1). The wellbeing effect of education. ESRC Evidence Briefing. Retrieved from http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/The%20wellbeing%20effect%20of%20education_tcm8-31129.pdf
Courses Taught:
- Beginners SPSS
- Final year empirical projects
- Intermediate SPSS
- Linear Models
- MSc research placement
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Postgraduate Research Design and Statistics
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Structural Equation Modelling
Matthew J. Easterbrook
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QH
United Kingdom
- Phone: +44(0) 1273 876597