Prof. Marco Cinnirella, Ph.D.
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I took my undergraduate degree (a B.Sc. in Social Psychology, 1987-1990) at the London School of Economics (the LSE), and stayed on to do my PhD there under the supervision of Dr. George Gaskell (1990-1993), looking at social identity approaches to national and European identities. I took my first academic job at Royal Holloway in 1993, as a lecturer in Psychology, and I'm still there!
In my current research I am exploring how fear of terrorism may lead to Islamophobic prejudice, and in addition, the interplay of multiple identities in the context of multi-cultural Britain, looking particularly at British Muslims of South Asian descent.
I am also investigating the following: the social psychology of European integration -- in particular, how British citizens construe the relationship between national and European identity; social identity theory (SIT) -- in particular, identification with large-scale social categories, and attempts to develop further integration of SIT with theories of the self and self-concept, especially in relation to the temporal nature of self.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Communication, Language
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Internet and Virtual Psychology
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
Research Group or Laboratory:
- Social Identity & Representation (SIR) Lab
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Journal Articles:
- Brooke Rogers, M., Lewis, C. A., Amlot, R., Cinnirella, M., & Ansari, H. (2007). The role of religious fundamentalism in terrorist violence: A social psychological analysis. International Review of Psychiatry, 19, 253-262.
- Cinnirella, M. (2001). Forever the reluctant Europeans? The Psychologist, 14(7), 344-345.
- Cinnirella, M. (1998). Exploring temporal aspects of social identity: The concept of possible social identities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 227-248.
- Cinnirella, M. (1997). Towards a European identity? Interactions between the national and European social identities manifested by university students in Britain and Italy. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 19-31.
- Cinnirella, M., & Green, B. (2007). Does cyber-conformity vary cross-culturally? Exploring cultural effects on conformity using a computer-mediated Asch paradigm. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 2011-2025.
- Cinnirella, M., & Hamilton, S. (2007). Are all Britons reluctant Europeans? Exploring European identity and attitudes to Europe amongst British citizens of South Asian ethnicity. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 30, 481-501.
- Cinnirella, M., & Loewenthal, C. (1999). Religious and ethnic group influences on beliefs about mental illness: A qualitative interview study. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 72, 505-524.
- Loewenthal, C., & Cinnirella, M. (1999). Beliefs about the efficacy of religious, medical and psychotherapeutic interventions for depression and schizophrenia among women from different cultural-religious groups in Great Britain. Transcultural Psychiatry, 36(4), 491-504.
- Loewenthal, K. M., Cinnirella, M., Evdoka, G., & Murphy, P. (2001). Faith conquers all? Beliefs about the role of religious factors in coping with depression among different cultural-religious groups in the U.K. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 74, 293-303.
- Loewenthal, K. M., MacLeod, A. K., & Cinnirella, M. (2002). Are women more religious than men? Evidence from a short measure of religious activity applicable in different religious groups in the UK. Personality and Individual Differences, 32, 133-139.
- Nigbur, D., & Cinnirella, M. (2007). National identification, type and specificity of comparison, and their effects on descriptions of national character. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 672-691.
- Rutland, A., & Cinnirella, M. (2000). Context effects on Scottish national and European self-categorization: The importance of category accessibility, fragility and relations. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39(4), 495-519.
- Zawisza, M., Cinnirella, M., & Zawadzka, A. M. (2006). Non-traditional male gender portrayal as a persuasion tool in advertising. Social Influence, 1, 288-300.
Other Publications:
- Cinnirella, M. (2000). Britain: A history of four nations. In L. Hagendoorn, G. Csepeli, H. Dekker, & R. Farnen (Eds.), European nations and nationalism: Theoretical and historical perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Cinnirella, M. (1996). Social identity perspectives on European integration. In G. Breakwell & E. Lyons (Eds.), Changing European identities. Oxford: Heinemann-Butterworth.
Prof. Marco Cinnirella, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham Hill
Egham TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
