Dr Carla Jeffries

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 )
  

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)
  

Currently teaching courses/programs
PSY2010 Social Processes of Behaviour

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
8 Years

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, Jan (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 and Machin, Tanya 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

Goh, Yong and Jeffries, Carla and du Preez, J. (2019) Cultural awareness and sensitivity: foundational experiences in a Level 1 Psychology course. In: 2019 Australian Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference (AusPLaT 2019) , 13-15 Sept 2019, Melbourne, Australia.

Machin, Tanya and Jeffries, Carla (2019) Improving online student feelings of support and sense of belonging by interaction alerts. In: 2019 Australian Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference (AUSPLAT 2019), 13-15 Sept, 2019, Melbourne, Australia.

Machin, Tanya M and Brownlow, Charlotte and Jeffries, Carla H (2018) A case study of designing artificial Facebook pages: a new approach to online research [Online case study]. In: SAGE research methods cases, Part 2. Sage Publications, London, United Kingdom. ISBN 9781526435095

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Approved 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 )