February 14 is Library Lovers Day so what better way to celebrate than by coming along to a Literary Salon at North Melbourne library? Award … Read more »
Featured work
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Fathers and whales
My debut novel My Father the Whale might seem like it came out of the blue. But it was years in the making. I’ve always … Read more »
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A Criminal take on Milgram
This episode of the Criminal podcast focusses on the gap between Stanley Milgram’s published accounts of the obedience experiments and the behind-the-scenes reality of life … Read more »
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Social psychology and reality TV
I was interviewed recently by a producer and presenter making a radio series about the link between social psychology and reality TV. No surprises that … Read more »
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A real life ‘Lord of the Flies’?
Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave study is often described as a real life ‘Lord of the Flies.’ And it’s true that in some ways Golding’s book … Read more »
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Turkish threads
How did Muzafer Sherif come to be studying warring groups of boys in 1950s America? Answering that question took me on a research journey back … Read more »
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Muzafer Sherif’s right hand man – OJ Harvey
Textbook accounts of Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment put Sherif front and centre of the story. But the stories of famous psychological experiments often ignore … Read more »