Peter Hegarty
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My research clusters around three overlapping areas; Social Psychology, the History of Psychology and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Psychology. At the intersections of these areas I am researching relationships between social identities that are marked by power (particularly sexual and gender identities) and modern psychological thought. Using controlled experiments, surveys, bibliometrics, content and discourse analyses, I examine how and why scientists and laypeople draw, graph, explain, cite and generalize data about real social groups. This work aims to inform both social psychological understanding of the relationship between scientific thinking and intergroup relations, historical thinking about the production of psychological "truth" in the modern world, and debates about the correct way to empirically research the psychology of other people.
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Causal Attribution
- Gender Psychology
- Intergroup Relations
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Social Cognition
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14:49 "Meet The Researcher" Interview
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2:18 On Feminist Identity
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5:40 Encountering Feminism in Psychology
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1:45 "Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences" Interview
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29:40 Re-Imagining Group Differences in Scientific Psychology
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3:28 The Margin and the Mainstream
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2:19:12 LGBT Psychology: How Did We Get Here and What Are the Implications for Student Counsellors?
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48:08 The History of LGBTQ Psychology From Stonewall to Now
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56:45 The De-Naturalization of Sexuality in 21st Century Psychology
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Journal Articles:
- Barker, M., Hagger-Johnson, G., Hegarty, P., Hutchinson, C., & Riggs, D. (2006). Responses from the lesbian and gay psychology section to Crossley's 'Making sense of barebacking.' British Journal of Psychology, 46, 667-677.
- Hegarty, P. (2009). Toward an LGBT-informed paradigm for children who break gender norms: Comment on Drummond et al. (2008) and Rieger et al. (2008). Developmental Psychology, 45, 895-900.
- Hegarty, P., & Buechel, C. (2006). Androcentric reporting of gender differences in APA journals: 1965-2004. Review of General Psychology, 10, 377-389.
- Hegarty, P., & Chryssocchoou, X. (2005). Why “our” policies set the standard more than “theirs”: Category norms and generalization between European Union countries. Social Cognition, 23, 491-529.
- Hegarty, P., & Golden, A. M. (2008). Attributional beliefs about the controllability of stigmatized traits: Antecedents or justifications of prejudice? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 1023-1044.
- Hegarty, P., Lemieux, A., & McQueen, G. (2010). Graphing the order of the sexes: Constructing, recalling, interpreting, and putting the self in gender difference graphs. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 375-391.
- Hegarty, P., & Pratto, F. (2001). The effects of social category norms and stereotypes on explanations for intergroup differences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 723-735.
- Hegarty, P., Pratto, F., & Lemieux, A. (2004). Heterosexist ambivalence and heterocentric norms: Drinking in intergroup discomfort. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 7, 119-130.
- Hegarty, P., & Walton, Z. (2012). The consequences of predicting scientific impact in psychology using journal impact factors. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 72-78.
- Hegarty, P., Watson, N., Fletcher, K., & McQueen, G. (2011). When gentlemen are first and ladies are last: Effects of gender stereotypes on the order of romantic partners’ names. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 21-35.
- Horvath, M. A. H., Hegarty, P., Tyler, S., & Mansfield, S. (2012). “Lights on at the end of the party:” Are lads’ mags mainstreaming dangerous sexism? British Journal of Psychology, 103, 454-471.
- Marcu, A., Lyons, E., & Hegarty, P. (2007). Dilemmatic human-animal boundaries in Britain and Romania: Post-materialist and materialist dehumanization. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 875-893.
- Pratto, F., Korchmaros, J. N., & Hegarty, P. (2007). When race and gender go without saying. Social Cognition, 25, 221-247.
- Tee, N., & Hegarty, P. (2006). Predicting opposition to the civil rights of trans persons in the United Kingdom. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 16, 70-80.
Other Publications:
- Curtin, N., Hegarty, P., & Stewart, A. J. (Eds.). (2012). Expanding the research community in LGBT psychology: Collaborative studies from the international institute. Psychology & Sexuality, 3, 187-296. [Special Issue].
- Hegarty, P. (2007). Power matters: Knowledge politics in the history of psychology. History of Psychology, 10(2), 75-226. [Special issue]
- Hegarty, P., Barker, M., & Langdridge, D. (Eds.). (2011). Queer theory and psychology. Psychology & Sexuality, 2(1), 1-107. [Special Issue].
- Hegarty, P. (Ed.). (2012). Beyond Kinsey: The Committee for Research on Problems of Sex and American psychology. History of Psychology, 15, 197-232. [Special Feature].
- Hegarty, P., & Pratto, F. (2010). Interpreting and communicating the results of gender-related research. In D. McCreary & J. Chisler (Eds.), Handbook of gender research in psychology (pp. 191-211). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Courses Taught:
- Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
- Crafting Research: Linking Theories and Methods
- Doing Social Psychological Research
- History of Psychology
- International LGBT Psychology Summer Institute
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Psychology
- Social Psychology
Peter Hegarty
Department of Psychology
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH
United Kingdom
- Phone: +44 (0)1483 686898
- Fax: +44 (0)1483 689553