Iain Walker
My major research interests are in social sciences and sustainability, the social psychology of intergroup relations, relative deprivation and social justice; social representations; and critical social psychology. My work is aimed at applying social scientific knowledge to social issues, from stereotyping to climate change. This research is primarily concerned with understanding and engaging with processes of social change and with the interplay between theory and practice. My overarching science goal is to develop more potent and durable ways to produce environmental, social, and behavioural change. This requires the integration of different social psychological theories specified at different levels of analysis, and different empirical results produced from competing epistemological paradigms. In other words, my goal is to join analyses of ecosystems, social systems, and egosystems, to enhance sustainability within and across those systems.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Personality, Individual Differences
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
- Social Cognition
- Sociology, Social Networks
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Books:
- Augoustinos, M., Walker, I., & Donaghue, N. (2014). Social cognition: An integrated introduction (3nd ed.). London: Sage.
- Moloney, G., & Walker, I. (Eds.). (2007). Social representations and identity: Content, process, and power. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Schandl, H., & Walker, I. (Eds.) (2017). Social science and sustainability. Canberra: CSIRO Publishing
- Walker, I., & Smith, H. J. (Eds.). (2002). Relative deprivation: Specification, development, and integration. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles:
- Andreotta, M., Nugroho, R., Hurlstone, M., Boschetti, F., Farrell, S, Walker, I. & Paris, C. (2019). Performing qualitative analyses on social media data sets: an application to climate change commentary on Twitter. Behaviour Research Methods
- Beaton, A., LeBlanc, J., & Walker, I. (2015). The downside of being up: A new look at relative group privilege and traditional prejudice. Social Justice Research.
- Boschetti, F., Price, J., & Walker, I. (2016). Modelling and attitudes towards the future. Ecological Modelling, 322, 71-81.
- Boschetti, F., Richer, C., Walker, I., Price, J., & Dutra, L. (2012) Assessing attitudes and cognitive styles of stakeholders in environmental projects involving computer modelling. Ecological Modelling, 247, 98–111.
- Dreyer, S., J., Walker, I., McCoy, S. K., & Teisl, M. F. (2015). Australian acceptance and support for carbon pricing before and after the federal election. Nature Climate Change. 5, 1064-1067.
- Guy, S., Kashima, K., Walker, I., & O’Neill, S. (2014). An investigation of the effects of knowledge and ideology on acceptance of climate change. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 421-429.
- Hobman, E. V., & Walker, I. (2015). Stasis and change: Social psychological insights into social-ecological resilience. Ecology and Society, 20, 39 www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss1/art39/.
- Hurlstone, M. J., Price, A., Wang, S., Leviston, Z., & Walker, I. (2020). Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game. Global Environmental Change, 60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102008
- Kurz, T., Donaghue, N., & Walker, I. (2005). Utilizing a social-ecological framework to promote water and energy conservation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1281-1300.
- Leviston, Z., Dandy, J., Jetten, J., & Walker, I. (2020). The role of relative deprivation in majority-culture support for multiculturalism. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 50, 228-239. DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12652
- Leviston, Z., Walker, I., Green; M., & Price, J. (2018). Linkages between ecosystem services and human wellbeing: A Nexus Webs approach. Ecological Indicators, 93, 658-668. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.05.052
- Leviston, Z., Walker, I., & Morwinski, S. (2013). Your opinion on climate change might not be as common as you think. Nature Climate Change. 3(4), 334-337.
- Moloney, G., Hall, R., & Walker, I. (2005). Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 415-441.
- Moloney, G., & Walker, I. (2000). Messiahs, pariahs, and donors: The development of social representations of organ donation. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 30, 203-227.
- Pedersen, A., & Walker, I. (1997). Prejudice against Australian Aborigines: Old-fashioned and modern forms. European Journal of Social Psychology, 27, 561-587.
- Price, J. A., Walker, I., & Boschetti, F. (2014). Measuring cultural values and beliefs about environment to identify their role in climate change responses. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 37, 8-20.
- Ruby, M., Walker, I., & Watkins, H. (2020). Sustainable consumption: The psychology of individual choice, identity, and behavior. Introduction to the special issue on Psychology and Sustainably Consumption. Journal of Social Issues, 76, 86-100. doi: 10.1111/josi.1236
- Sutherland, M., Moloney, G., Norton, M., Bowling, A., & Walker, I. (2020). Utilizing a hospital-based setting to increase organ donor registrations. Transplantation, 104, 1210–1214.
- Sutherland, M., Moloney, G., Norton, M., Bowling, A., & Walker, I. (2019). Increasing registrations on the Australian Organ Donor Register. Medical Journal of Australia. DOI:10.5694/mja2.50000
- Walker, I., & Crogan, M. (1998). Academic performance, prejudice, and the Jigsaw classroom: New pieces to the puzzle. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 8, 381-393.
- Walker, I., Leviston, Z., Price, J., & Devine-Wright, P. (2015). Responses to a worsening environment: Relative deprivation mediates between place attachments and behaviour. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 833-846.
- Wang, S., Hurlstone, M., Leviston, Z., Walker, I., & Lawrence C. (2019). Climate change from a distance: An analysis of construal level and psychological distance from climate change [Contribution to special issue on “The Cognitive Psychology of Climate Change”]. Frontiers of Psychology, 10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00230
- Xie, B., Hurlstone, M., & Walker, I. (2018). Correct me if I’m wrong: Groups outperform individuals in the Climate Stabilization Task [Contribution to special issue on “The Cognitive Psychology of Climate Change”]. Frontiers of Psychology, 9. Article 2274. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02274
Other Publications:
- Dudgeon, P., Wright, M., Paradies, Y., Garvey, D., & Walker, I. (2014). Social and cultural context. In Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice (2nd ed.). Melbourne: ACER Publishing.
- Smith, H. J., & Walker, I. (2008). Feeling relative deprivation: The rocky road from comparisons to actions. In U. Wagner, L. R. Tropp, G. Finchilescu, & C. Tredoux (Eds.), Improving intergroup relations – Building on the legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew. SPSSI Series on Social Issues and Interventions. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Walker, I. (2001). Changes in prejudice against Aboriginal Australians. In M. Augoustinos & K. J. Reynolds (Eds.), Understanding prejudice, racism, and social conflict. London: Sage Publications.
Iain Walker
School of Psychological Sciences
University of Melbourne
Melbourne
Australia
