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Dr Luisa Batalha

Lecturer
Psychology

Areas of expertise: prejudice; intergroup relations; psychology of climate change

Phone: 9704731

Email: Luisa.batalha@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Strathfield Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8052-4039

I completed my PhD in Social Psychology from Upsala University, Sweden in 2008. Following my PhD, I received a grant from the Swedish research Council to do a post doc at the Australian National University, Canberra. In 2015 I moved to Sydney and to a Lecturer position at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). At the ACU I have lectured in a number of core units across the undergrad and postgrad courses. I continuously supervise Honours, Masters and PhD students. I've continued doing research, mainly with the focus on prejudice and climate change-related topics.

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• Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J. … Batalha, L. et al. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 880-895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5
• Batalha, L., Foroni, F., & Jones, B. J. (2021). All plant breeding technologies are equal, but some are more equal than others: The case of GM and mutagenesis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, p. 657133 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.657133
• Chui, H., Batalha, L., Amaratunga, S. Pepper, M. (2021). Personal and societal factors on prejudice against aboriginal people, immigrants, racial minorities, and refugees among churchgoers in Australia. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion - A Diversity of Paradigms31. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004443969_014
• Batalha, L., Niemeyer, S., Dryzek, J. S., & Gastil, J. (2020). Psychological mechanisms of deliberative transformation: The role of group identity. Journal of Public Deliberation, 15, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.313
• Cooper, D., Yap, K., & Batalha, L. (2018). Mindfulness-based interventions and their effects on emotional clarity: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 235, 265-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.04.018
• Reynolds, K., Subacic, E., Batalha, L., Jones, B. M. (2017). From prejudice to social change: A social identity perspective. In C. G. Sibley & F. K. Barlow (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of the psychology of prejudice (pp. 47-64). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316161579.003
• Reynolds, K.J., Batalha, L., & Subasic, E. (2015) The social psychology of social (dis)harmony: Implications for political leaders and public policy. In J. P. Forgas, K. Fiedler, & B. Crano (Eds.). Social psychology and politics. New York: Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315717104
• Batalha, L., & Reynolds, J. K. (2013). Gender and personality: Beyond gender stereotypes to social identity and the dynamics of social change. The SAGE handbook of gender and psychology, 165-182.
• Batalha, L., Niemeyer, S., & Dryzek, J. (2013). Changing orientations towards Australian democracy In L. Carson, J. Gastil, J. Hartz-Karp, & R. Lubensky. Perspectives on Politics, (pp. 133-1430. The Penn State University Press, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271062464
• Contreras-Huerta, L. S., Baker, K. S., Reynolds, K. J., Batalha, L., & Cunnington, R. (2013). Racial bias in neural empathic responses to pain. PloS One, 8(12), e84001-e84001. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084001
• Batalha, L., & Reynolds, K. J. (2012). ASPIRing to Mitigate Climate Change: Superordinate Identity in Global Climate Negotiations. Political Psychology, 33(5), 743-760. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00896.x
• Reynolds, K. J., Bizumic, B., Subasic, E., Turner, J. C., Branscombe, N., Mavor, K. I., & Batalha, L. (2012). Social identity and personality processes: Non-Aboriginal Australian identity and Neuroticism: Social identity and personality processes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42(2), 252-262. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1841
• Batalha, L., Reynolds, K. J., & Newbigin, C. A. (2011). All else being equal: Are men always higher in social dominance orientation than women?: All else being equal. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(6), 796-806. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.829
• Batalha, L., Akrami, N., & Ekehammar, B. (2007). Outgroup favoritism: The role of power perception, gender, and conservatism. Current Research in Social Psychology, 13(4), 38-49.

Projects

• 2009 - The role of self-categorization in explaining the relationship between Big Five personality and prejudice (Sk1000000)
• 2009 - 2011 | Grant
  Swedish Research Council (Stockolm, SE)
  GRANT_NUMBER: 2008-6896
  http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001862

Appointments and Affiliations

• 2003-2008 - Tutor, Uppsala University
• 2009-2014 - post-doctoral research fellow, Australian National University
• 2015-Present - Lecturer, Australian Catholic University

Professional Affiliations

• European Association of Social Psychology

International journal review panels

• Political Psychology
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Group processes and Intergroup Relations
• British Journal of Social Psychology
• European Journal of Social Psychology
• Global Environmental Change
• Journal of Deliberative Democracy
• Perspectives on Psychological Science
• Scientific Reports
• Journal of Environmental Psychology
• Psych
• Political Behavior