Michael J Halloran
Biographic Data
| ID | 653306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Halloran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Halloran |
| SIGNATURE | HALLORAN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1899-7737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reclaiming, learning, and sharing Wiradyuri language the Yindyamarra way
The failure of the Australian higher education sector to enable comparable participation, retention and completion rates of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students relative to their non-Indigenous counterparts is well documented. Although the prevailing narrative about Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students in mainstream higher education is largely one of deficit, the Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and He…
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state
This integrative review seeks to employ insights from critical social psychology and Indigenous nation building governance research to advance an explanation for why Australian state policy continually fails to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and reproduces trauma. The review suggests that settler-colonial law and policy embed a history of oppressive relations that suppress Indigenous voice, culture, and identit…
African American Health and Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome: A Terror Management Theory Account
The aim of this article is to explicate a terror management theory (TMT) analysis of the poor social and psychological well-being of African Americans by drawing upon a model of cultural trauma to explain the antecedents and effects of posttraumatic slave syndrome. Cultural trauma is defined as a state that occurs when a people’s cultural worldview has been destabilized to the point where it does not effectively meet its TMT function of providing…
Effect of Hierarchy Legitimacy on Low Status Group Members' Attributions for Ingroup and Outgroup Failures
Previous research has shown that people have a tendency to explain successes and failures in ways that favor their ingroups relative to outgroups. However, there has been a dearth of research examining whether social-contextual factors such as group status and hierarchy legitimacy moderate such intergroup attributions. Participants in this study were assigned to a low status group, and perceived hierarchy legitimacy was then experimentally manipu…
Social identity change: Shifts in social identity during adolescence
This study investigated the proposition that adolescence involves significant shifts in social identity as a function of changes in social context and cognitive style. Using an experimental design, we primed either peer or gender identity with a sample of 380 early‐ (12–13 years), mid‐ (15–16 years), and late‐adolescents (18–20 years) and then measured the effect of the prime on self‐stereotyping and ingroup favouritism. The findings showed signi…
The Effects of a Common In‐group Prime on Intentions to Help Indigenous and Homeless Australians
The article reports on research designed to test Australian attitudes towards helping impoverished members of the Australian society, in particular, indigenous and homeless people. Australian university students completed a questionnaire to measure their attitudes towards helping homeless and indigenous people under conditions that primed a common Australian identity. The findings showed that priming an inclusive identity led to relatively strong…
Attitudes toward Animals: The Effect of Priming Thoughts of Human-Animal Similarities and Mortality Salience on the Evaluation of Companion Animals
Human attitudes toward nonhuman animals are complex and quite contradictory. They can range between extremely negative (animal cruelty) to positive (treating companion animals like human surrogates). Attitudes toward animals are especially negative when people think about human creatureliness and personal mortality. This paper investigates people's attitudes toward highly valued animals (companion animals). The research presented here tested whet…
Tripartite Self-concept Change: Shifts in the Individual, Relational, and Collective Self in Adolescence
This study investigated changes in the tripartite self-concept in a sample of pre-, early-, mid-, and late-adolescents. Participants provided self-descriptions under conditions that primed either a personal or social context. As expected, adolescents showed fluctuating use of the individual, relational, and collective levels of self. The collective and individual self became more prominent, particularly in later adolescence, while the relational …
Indigenous reconciliation in Australia: Do values, identity and collective guilt matter
This paper reports an investigation of the impact of shared values and identities on Australian attitudes towards Indigenous reconciliation across two studies. In Study 1, University students were assigned to one of two conditions in which they completed a questionnaire that measured their value priorities and reconciliation attitudes; either as an individual or as an Australian. As expected, the value of egalitarianism was the strongest predicto…
The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem
The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem
Indigenous reconciliation in Australia: Do values, identity and collective guilt matter
This paper reports an investigation of the impact of shared values and identities on Australian attitudes towards Indigenous reconciliation across two studies. In Study 1, University students were assigned to one of two conditions in which they completed a questionnaire that measured their value priorities and reconciliation attitudes; either as an individual or as an Australian. As expected, the value of egalitarianism was the strongest predicto…
Attitudes toward Animals: The Effect of Priming Thoughts of Human-Animal Similarities and Mortality Salience on the Evaluation of Companion Animals
Human attitudes toward nonhuman animals are complex and quite contradictory. They can range between extremely negative (animal cruelty) to positive (treating companion animals like human surrogates). Attitudes toward animals are especially negative when people think about human creatureliness and personal mortality. This paper investigates people's attitudes toward highly valued animals (companion animals). The research presented here tested whet…
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state
This integrative review seeks to employ insights from critical social psychology and Indigenous nation building governance research to advance an explanation for why Australian state policy continually fails to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and reproduces trauma. The review suggests that settler-colonial law and policy embed a history of oppressive relations that suppress Indigenous voice, culture, and identit…
The Effects of a Common In‐group Prime on Intentions to Help Indigenous and Homeless Australians
The article reports on research designed to test Australian attitudes towards helping impoverished members of the Australian society, in particular, indigenous and homeless people. Australian university students completed a questionnaire to measure their attitudes towards helping homeless and indigenous people under conditions that primed a common Australian identity. The findings showed that priming an inclusive identity led to relatively strong…
The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem
Indigenous reconciliation in Australia: Do values, identity and collective guilt matter
This paper reports an investigation of the impact of shared values and identities on Australian attitudes towards Indigenous reconciliation across two studies. In Study 1, University students were assigned to one of two conditions in which they completed a questionnaire that measured their value priorities and reconciliation attitudes; either as an individual or as an Australian. As expected, the value of egalitarianism was the strongest predicto…
Tripartite Self-concept Change: Shifts in the Individual, Relational, and Collective Self in Adolescence
This study investigated changes in the tripartite self-concept in a sample of pre-, early-, mid-, and late-adolescents. Participants provided self-descriptions under conditions that primed either a personal or social context. As expected, adolescents showed fluctuating use of the individual, relational, and collective levels of self. The collective and individual self became more prominent, particularly in later adolescence, while the relational …
Attitudes toward Animals: The Effect of Priming Thoughts of Human-Animal Similarities and Mortality Salience on the Evaluation of Companion Animals
Human attitudes toward nonhuman animals are complex and quite contradictory. They can range between extremely negative (animal cruelty) to positive (treating companion animals like human surrogates). Attitudes toward animals are especially negative when people think about human creatureliness and personal mortality. This paper investigates people's attitudes toward highly valued animals (companion animals). The research presented here tested whet…
Social identity change: Shifts in social identity during adolescence
This study investigated the proposition that adolescence involves significant shifts in social identity as a function of changes in social context and cognitive style. Using an experimental design, we primed either peer or gender identity with a sample of 380 early‐ (12–13 years), mid‐ (15–16 years), and late‐adolescents (18–20 years) and then measured the effect of the prime on self‐stereotyping and ingroup favouritism. The findings showed signi…
The Effects of a Common In‐group Prime on Intentions to Help Indigenous and Homeless Australians
The article reports on research designed to test Australian attitudes towards helping impoverished members of the Australian society, in particular, indigenous and homeless people. Australian university students completed a questionnaire to measure their attitudes towards helping homeless and indigenous people under conditions that primed a common Australian identity. The findings showed that priming an inclusive identity led to relatively strong…
Effect of Hierarchy Legitimacy on Low Status Group Members' Attributions for Ingroup and Outgroup Failures
Previous research has shown that people have a tendency to explain successes and failures in ways that favor their ingroups relative to outgroups. However, there has been a dearth of research examining whether social-contextual factors such as group status and hierarchy legitimacy moderate such intergroup attributions. Participants in this study were assigned to a low status group, and perceived hierarchy legitimacy was then experimentally manipu…
African American Health and Posttraumatic Slave Syndrome: A Terror Management Theory Account
The aim of this article is to explicate a terror management theory (TMT) analysis of the poor social and psychological well-being of African Americans by drawing upon a model of cultural trauma to explain the antecedents and effects of posttraumatic slave syndrome. Cultural trauma is defined as a state that occurs when a people’s cultural worldview has been destabilized to the point where it does not effectively meet its TMT function of providing…
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state
This integrative review seeks to employ insights from critical social psychology and Indigenous nation building governance research to advance an explanation for why Australian state policy continually fails to improve the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and reproduces trauma. The review suggests that settler-colonial law and policy embed a history of oppressive relations that suppress Indigenous voice, culture, and identit…
Reclaiming, learning, and sharing Wiradyuri language the Yindyamarra way
The failure of the Australian higher education sector to enable comparable participation, retention and completion rates of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students relative to their non-Indigenous counterparts is well documented. Although the prevailing narrative about Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students in mainstream higher education is largely one of deficit, the Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and He…
Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works)