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Dr Carla Jeffries

Dr Carla Jeffries
Name Carla Jeffries
Position Senior Lecturer (Psychology)
Section School of Psychology and Wellbeing
Office W519
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1572
Extension 1572
Email
Qualifications BA Qld , BA(Hons) Qld , PhD Qld

Research Career

Fields of Research (FoR)

  • Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified ( 050299 )
  • Psychology not elsewhere classified ( 170199 )
  • Environmental Management not elsewhere classified ( 410499 )
  • Other Psychology not elsewhere classified ( 529999 )
  • Other Psychology ( 529900 )
  • Environmental Management ( 410400 )

Research interests
Group processes and intergroup relations
Communication of interpersonal and group feedback
Automaticity of group-based biases

Professional memberships
Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (SASP)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

Industry affiliations
Member of the Australian Psychological Society

USQ Research affiliations

  • Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development (ACSBD)

Teaching

Currently teaching courses/programs
PSY2010 Social Processes of Behaviour

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
8 Years

Publications

Research most recent
Zaal, M. P., Saab, R., O’Brien, K., Jeffries, C., Barreto, M., & van Laar, C. (2015). You’re either with us or against us! Moral conviction determines how the politicized distinguish friend from foe. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. doi:10.1177/1368430215615682

Jeffries, C. H., Hornsey, M. J., Sutton R. M., Douglas, K. M., & Bain, P. G. (2012). The David and Goliath principle: Cultural, ideological and stereotypical underpinnings of the normative protection of low status groups from criticism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(8), 1053-1065.

Jeffries, C. H., & Hornsey, M. J. (2012). Withholding negative feedback: Is it about protecting the self or protecting others. British Journal of Social Psychology, 51(4), 772–780.

Bain, P., Hornsey, M. J., Bongiorno, R., & Jeffries, C. H. (2012). Promoting pro-environmental action in climate change deniers. Nature Climate Change, 2, 600-603.

Hornsey, M. J., Jeffries, C. H., & Esposo, S. (2011). More science than art: Understanding and reducing defensiveness in the face of criticism of groups and cultures. In R. Sutton, M. J. Hornsey, & K. Douglas (Eds.), Feedback: The communication of praise, criticism and advice. NY: Peter Lang Publishers.


Research most notable
Jeffries, C. H., Hornsey, M. J., Sutton R. M., Douglas, K. M., & Bain, P. G. (2012). The David and Goliath principle: Cultural, ideological and stereotypical underpinnings of the normative protection of low status groups from criticism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(8), 1053-1065.


Publications in ePrints

Beel, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1248-1417 and Brownlow, Charlotte and Jeffries, Carla and du Preez, JanORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2077-3524 (2022) Show no weakness: Male-friendly counsellors’ descriptions of men. Australian Counselling Research Journal, 16 (1). pp. 12-22. ISSN 1832-1135

Machin, Tony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0967-6934 and Machin, TanyaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4358-2149 and Jeffries, Carla and Hoare, NanceyORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5156-7574 and Abel, SusanORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4703-8415 (2022) The Australian Handbook for Careers in Psychological Science. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.

Gilmour, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-8772 and Jeffries, Carla and Machin, TanyaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4358-2149 and Brownlow, Charlotte (2022) The Effects of Facebook-based Social Support on Health Across Metropolitan and Regional Australians. In: Social Media and Technology Across the Lifespan. Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology. Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 97-114. ISBN 9783030990480

Beel, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1248-1417 and Brownlow, Charlotte and Jeffries, Carla and du Preez, JanORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2077-3524 (2020) Counseling men: treatment recommendations from Australian men’s therapists. The Journal of Men’s Studies, 28 (1). pp. 101-121. ISSN 1060-8265

Gilmour, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-8772 and Machin, TanyaORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4358-2149 and Brownlow, Charlotte and Jeffries, Carla (2020) Facebook-based social support and health: a systematic review. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 9 (3). pp. 328-346. ISSN 2160-4134

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Supervision

Research supervisor in the area of:

  • Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified ( 050299 )
  • Psychology not elsewhere classified ( 170199 )
  • Environmental Management not elsewhere classified ( 410499 )
  • Other Psychology not elsewhere classified ( 529999 )
  • Other Psychology ( 529900 )
  • Environmental Management ( 410400 )