John A Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 166536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking normative constraints on everyday behaviors (like arguing, laughing, cursing, kissi…
Information Regarding Shared Genes Between Humans Improves Attitudes Towards World Members
Laypeople reason that different races share 68% of their genes. In fact, the Human Genome Project indicates that humans, regardless of race, share 99.9% of our genetic material and that only 1/200th of 1% has been used to group people into the five classically conceived races. We reasoned that information about shared genetics might compel participants to extend their ingroup to include those formerly in the outgroup. In three studies, we showed …
Social Identity Mapping With Justice‐Involved Young People
Social groups and the environments they create play a prominent role in the desistance versus persistence of young peoples' criminal offending. Social Identity Mapping (SIM) provides a quantitative method for understanding the social network of young offenders. This exploratory study was guided by two broad research questions: (1) using the SIM task, we wanted to investigate the experiences of young people moving through the Youth Justice System …
The Capricious Nature of Theory of Mind
Using a between-groups design and random assignment, this study examined 214 Turkish children's (M = 11.66 years) mindreading and general reasoning about in-group members (Turks), similar out-group members (Syrians within Turkey) and dissimilar out-group members (Northern Europeans). Children heard four mindreading and four general reasoning stories with in-group or out-group members as targets. Whereas children's general reasoning about three gr…
RWAc and SDOc
Right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) predict prejudice and discrimination in adults. To create analogous scales for children, we carried out four studies. First, we gave 112 adults from New Zealand (Study 1) and 146 adults from Turkey (Study 2) novel child‐appropriate measures of RWA and SDO, along with the standard adult measures. The two RWA measures correlated more highly with each other than with the SDO me…
In Two Minds
We examined Turkish participants' mindreading accuracy toward ingroup versus outgroup targets. Three hundred and fifty-four Turkish participants were randomly assigned to one of three target groups: Turkish, Syrian, or Norwegian. The mindreading accuracy for these targets was measured along with the perceived cultural similarity of the target to the ingroup, as well as prejudice and threat perception. Participants evidenced higher mindreading acc…
Express yourself? Ease to express one's identity mediates the relationship between national belonging and mental health
A number of studies have reported a positive relationship between levels of national identification and well‐being. Although this link is clear, the relationship is likely influenced by a number of other variables. In the current study, we examine two such variables: age and the ease with which people feel they can express their identity in the national context. Participants were drawn from three waves (2008–12) of the biannual New Zealand Genera…
Archaeofauna at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico
Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme
Within Aotearoa New Zealand there is growing interest in positive youth development (PYD). A PYD approach provides balance to narratives surrounding outcomes for youth and broadens our views of what we consider beneficial developmental outcomes. In the current study we used sail training as a method to promote PYD in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents. Specifically, 54 Māori and 37 New Zealand European adolescents completed the 7‐day yout…
Subjective belonging and in-group favoritism
Age differences in right-wing authoritarianism and their relation to emotion recognition
This study examined the correlates of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in older adults. Participants were given tasks measuring emotion recognition, executive functions and fluid IQ and questionnaires measuring RWA, perceived threat and social dominance orientation. Study 1 established higher age-related RWA across the age span in more than 2,600 New Zealanders. Studies 2 to 4 found that threat, education, social dominance and age all predicted …
Social Creativity in Olympic Medal Counts
Increases in global and domain specific self-esteem following a 10 day developmental voyage
Developmental Pathways into Social and Sexual Deviance
Threats to Identity, Self-Esteem and Intergroup Discrimination
The present study sought to test two hypotheses. The first was that intergroup discrimination leads to increased self-esteem. The second was that threatened self-esteem (i.e., operationalized here as the extent to which people believe that the ingroup is negatively evaluated by an outgroup) would lead to increased intergroup discrimination. Support was found for both hypotheses
Non-Sexual Delinquency in Juvenile Sexual Offenders
Developmental Pathways in Youth Sexual Aggression and Delinquency
Realistic Intergroup Conflict
Juvenile-Perpetrated Sex Crimes
Social identity and intergroup evaluative bias
Social identity theory predicts a link between self-esteem and intergroup discrimination. Previous research has failed to find consistent support for this prediction. Much of this research has, however, been beset by a number of methodological shortcomings. These shortcomings may have hindered attempts to discern a consistent relationship between self-esteem and intergroup discrimination. The current investigation sought to overcome these difficu…
The Adolescent Sexual Interest Card Sort
Humanities and the world of work
fools go where angels fear tread, then surely a philosopher may be excused for venturing down hall his colleagues in more practical, career-oriented disciplines. Unfortunately, it often appears today that distance between those of us in liberal arts/humanities and those involved in formulation and development of career/vocational programs is as much conceptual as it is physical. And I am most concerned with conceptual schism between two. In recen…
Developmental Pathways into Social and Sexual Deviance
Subjective belonging and in-group favoritism
Non-Sexual Delinquency in Juvenile Sexual Offenders
Juvenile-Perpetrated Sex Crimes
In Two Minds
We examined Turkish participants' mindreading accuracy toward ingroup versus outgroup targets. Three hundred and fifty-four Turkish participants were randomly assigned to one of three target groups: Turkish, Syrian, or Norwegian. The mindreading accuracy for these targets was measured along with the perceived cultural similarity of the target to the ingroup, as well as prejudice and threat perception. Participants evidenced higher mindreading acc…
Developmental Pathways in Youth Sexual Aggression and Delinquency
RWAc and SDOc
Right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) predict prejudice and discrimination in adults. To create analogous scales for children, we carried out four studies. First, we gave 112 adults from New Zealand (Study 1) and 146 adults from Turkey (Study 2) novel child‐appropriate measures of RWA and SDO, along with the standard adult measures. The two RWA measures correlated more highly with each other than with the SDO me…
Express yourself? Ease to express one's identity mediates the relationship between national belonging and mental health
A number of studies have reported a positive relationship between levels of national identification and well‐being. Although this link is clear, the relationship is likely influenced by a number of other variables. In the current study, we examine two such variables: age and the ease with which people feel they can express their identity in the national context. Participants were drawn from three waves (2008–12) of the biannual New Zealand Genera…
Social Creativity in Olympic Medal Counts
The Adolescent Sexual Interest Card Sort
Humanities and the world of work
fools go where angels fear tread, then surely a philosopher may be excused for venturing down hall his colleagues in more practical, career-oriented disciplines. Unfortunately, it often appears today that distance between those of us in liberal arts/humanities and those involved in formulation and development of career/vocational programs is as much conceptual as it is physical. And I am most concerned with conceptual schism between two. In recen…
The Adolescent Sexual Interest Card Sort
Social identity and intergroup evaluative bias
Social identity theory predicts a link between self-esteem and intergroup discrimination. Previous research has failed to find consistent support for this prediction. Much of this research has, however, been beset by a number of methodological shortcomings. These shortcomings may have hindered attempts to discern a consistent relationship between self-esteem and intergroup discrimination. The current investigation sought to overcome these difficu…
Juvenile-Perpetrated Sex Crimes
Realistic Intergroup Conflict
Developmental Pathways in Youth Sexual Aggression and Delinquency
Threats to Identity, Self-Esteem and Intergroup Discrimination
The present study sought to test two hypotheses. The first was that intergroup discrimination leads to increased self-esteem. The second was that threatened self-esteem (i.e., operationalized here as the extent to which people believe that the ingroup is negatively evaluated by an outgroup) would lead to increased intergroup discrimination. Support was found for both hypotheses
Non-Sexual Delinquency in Juvenile Sexual Offenders
Increases in global and domain specific self-esteem following a 10 day developmental voyage
Developmental Pathways into Social and Sexual Deviance
Social Creativity in Olympic Medal Counts
Age differences in right-wing authoritarianism and their relation to emotion recognition
This study examined the correlates of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in older adults. Participants were given tasks measuring emotion recognition, executive functions and fluid IQ and questionnaires measuring RWA, perceived threat and social dominance orientation. Study 1 established higher age-related RWA across the age span in more than 2,600 New Zealanders. Studies 2 to 4 found that threat, education, social dominance and age all predicted …
Subjective belonging and in-group favoritism
Archaeofauna at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico
Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme
Within Aotearoa New Zealand there is growing interest in positive youth development (PYD). A PYD approach provides balance to narratives surrounding outcomes for youth and broadens our views of what we consider beneficial developmental outcomes. In the current study we used sail training as a method to promote PYD in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents. Specifically, 54 Māori and 37 New Zealand European adolescents completed the 7‐day yout…
Express yourself? Ease to express one's identity mediates the relationship between national belonging and mental health
A number of studies have reported a positive relationship between levels of national identification and well‐being. Although this link is clear, the relationship is likely influenced by a number of other variables. In the current study, we examine two such variables: age and the ease with which people feel they can express their identity in the national context. Participants were drawn from three waves (2008–12) of the biannual New Zealand Genera…
The Capricious Nature of Theory of Mind
Using a between-groups design and random assignment, this study examined 214 Turkish children's (M = 11.66 years) mindreading and general reasoning about in-group members (Turks), similar out-group members (Syrians within Turkey) and dissimilar out-group members (Northern Europeans). Children heard four mindreading and four general reasoning stories with in-group or out-group members as targets. Whereas children's general reasoning about three gr…
RWAc and SDOc
Right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) predict prejudice and discrimination in adults. To create analogous scales for children, we carried out four studies. First, we gave 112 adults from New Zealand (Study 1) and 146 adults from Turkey (Study 2) novel child‐appropriate measures of RWA and SDO, along with the standard adult measures. The two RWA measures correlated more highly with each other than with the SDO me…
In Two Minds
We examined Turkish participants' mindreading accuracy toward ingroup versus outgroup targets. Three hundred and fifty-four Turkish participants were randomly assigned to one of three target groups: Turkish, Syrian, or Norwegian. The mindreading accuracy for these targets was measured along with the perceived cultural similarity of the target to the ingroup, as well as prejudice and threat perception. Participants evidenced higher mindreading acc…
Social Identity Mapping With Justice‐Involved Young People
Social groups and the environments they create play a prominent role in the desistance versus persistence of young peoples' criminal offending. Social Identity Mapping (SIM) provides a quantitative method for understanding the social network of young offenders. This exploratory study was guided by two broad research questions: (1) using the SIM task, we wanted to investigate the experiences of young people moving through the Youth Justice System …
Information Regarding Shared Genes Between Humans Improves Attitudes Towards World Members
Laypeople reason that different races share 68% of their genes. In fact, the Human Genome Project indicates that humans, regardless of race, share 99.9% of our genetic material and that only 1/200th of 1% has been used to group people into the five classically conceived races. We reasoned that information about shared genetics might compel participants to extend their ingroup to include those formerly in the outgroup. In three studies, we showed …
How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking normative constraints on everyday behaviors (like arguing, laughing, cursing, kissi…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Social group (5 works) · Social identity theory (5 works) · Cognition (4 works)