Samuel Pehrson

Institution Queen's University Belfast Current Position Lecturer Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Sussex, 2008 Research Interests Group Processes Intergroup Relations Political Psychology Prejudice/Stereotyping Self/Identity Courses Taught Applying Political Psychology to Current Social Issues Self and Identity Social and Applied Psychology   Samuel Pehrson School of Psychology Queen's University Belfast David Keir Building, 39-123 Stranmillis Road Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN United Kingdom Home Page Phone: + 44 28 9097 4333 I am interested in nationalism and racism, seeing them as intertwined ideological phenomena that shape our social relations through the identities that they create. I study the way this plays out in the politics of immigration, multiculturalism and ‘community cohesion’. My work emphasizes the need for social psychologists to attend as closely to the content and meaning of particular collective identities as we do to generic identity processes. I have also argued for the importance of representations of ‘us’ - and not only representations of ‘them’ - in prejudice and intergroup relations. Journal Articles: Pehrson, S., Brown, R., & Zagefka, H. (2009). When does national identification lead to the rejection of immigrants? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for the role of essentialist in-group definitions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 61-76. Pehrson, S., Gonzalez, R. & Brown, R. (in press). Indigenous rights in Chile: National identity and majority group support for multicultural policies. Political Psychology. Pehrson, S. & Green, E. G. T. (in press). Who we are and who can join us: National identity content and entry criteria for new immigrants. Journal of Social Issues. Pehrson, S., Vignoles, V., & Brown, R. (2009). National identification and anti-immigrant prejudice: Individual and contextual effects of national definitions. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72, 24-38. Zagefka, H., Pehrson, S., Mole, R. C. M., & Chan, E. (2010). The effect of essentialism in settings of historic intergroup atrocities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 718-732. Other Publications: Pehrson, S. & Leach, C. W. (Forthcoming). Beyond ‘old’ and ‘new’: For a social psychology of racism. In J. Dixon & M. Levine (Eds.) Beyond the ‘prejudice problematic’: Extending the social psychology of intergroup conflict, inequality and social change. Cambridge University Press. Pehrson, S., & Leach, C. W. (2010). Eugenics. In J. Levine & M. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of group processes and intergroup relations. Sage.

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