{"id":929,"date":"2019-08-22T14:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/psynaps\/?page_id=929"},"modified":"2019-08-23T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:50:02","slug":"dr-mirona-gheorghiu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/psynaps\/dr-mirona-gheorghiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Mirona Gheorghiu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a social psychologist with an interest in social and political issues. My main area of research is broadly that of inter-group relations with a focus on understanding how history and politics shape how we relate, perceive and treat others different from us. Previously, I have worked on the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland with the aim of understanding how members of these groups see the building of positive, trusting relationships. Presently, I have shifted my focus to studying anti-immigration sentiments in the current climate of increased populism and, specifically, Brexit. I am particularly preoccupied with &#8216;making sense&#8217; of what we mean by this very general and rather abstract category of &#8216;immigrant&#8217; and the judgements of moral deservingness we attach to migrants. I am also keen to explore more concretely how we, as academics, but in particular social psychologists, can increase the impact of our work beyond the narrow circles of our disciplines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here, at Edinburgh Napier University, I am a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmrn.co.uk\">Migration and Mobilities Research Network<\/a>, an interdisciplinary group of academics interested in issues of migration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to supervise PhD students in the social psychology of immigration (quantitative and\/or qualitative projects) or in other inter-group contexts. If you&#8217;d like to discuss your ideas, you can get in touch at m.gheorghiu@napier.ac.uk.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent publications &amp; conference presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gheorghiu, M<\/strong> &amp; Pehrson, S (2019). <em>Relative deprivation and moral devaluation of high and low status immigrants<\/em>, Poster presented at the International Society of Political Psychology meeting, Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gheorghiu, M<\/strong> &amp; Pehrson, S (2019). <em>Where next for the social psychology of immigration<\/em>, Roundtable discussion at the International Society of Political Psychology meeting, Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tropp, L.R., O\u2019Brien, T., Hawi, D., <strong>Gheorghiu, M<\/strong>., Zetes, A., Butz, D (2017). Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: studies in South Africa and Northern Ireland, <em>Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, <\/em>23, 239-249.<\/p>\n<p>Lockenhoff, CE, Chan, W, McCrae, RR, De Fruyt, F, &#8230; Yamaguchi, M, Knezevic, G Martin, TA, <strong>Gheorghiu, M<\/strong>, <em>et al<\/em>(2014). Gender stereotypes of personality universal and accurate? <em>Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology<\/em>, 45(5), 675-694.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McCrae, RR, Chan, W, Jussim, L, De Fruyt, F, Lockenhoff, CE, De Bolle, M, Costa, PT, &#8230; , <strong>Gheorghiu, M<\/strong>, <em>et al<\/em>(2014). The inaccuracy of national character stereotypes. <em>Journal of Research in Personality, <\/em>47(6), 831-842.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turner, RN, Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., and <strong>Gheorghiu<\/strong>, <strong>M<\/strong>. (2013). Combating mental health stigma with nostalgia. <em>European Journal of Social Psychology<\/em>, 43(5), 413-422.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Owe, E., Vignoles, V.L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P.B., Spike, L., Easterbrook, M., Gadre, T., Zhang, X., <strong>Gheorghiu, M<\/strong>. <em>et al<\/em>(2013). Contextualism as an important facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood beliefs across 37 national groups, <em>Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44<\/em>(1), 24-45.<\/p>\n<p>Pehrson, S., <strong>Gheorghiu, M.<\/strong>and Ireland, T. (2012). Cultural threat and anti-immigrant prejudice: the case of Protestants in Northern Ireland, <em>Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 22<\/em>, 111-124<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chan, W, McCrae, RR, De Fruyt, F, Jussim, L, Lockenhoff, CE, De Bolle, M, Costa, PT, &#8230;, <strong>Gheorghiu, M\u00a0<\/strong><em>et al\u00a0<\/em>(2012). Stereotypes of age differences in personality traits: Universal and accurate? <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>, 103(6), 1050-1066.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gheorghiu, MA, <\/strong>Vignoles, VL and Smith, PB (2009). Beyond US and Japan: Testing Yamagishi\u2019s emancipation theory of trust across 31 nations. <em>Social Psychology Quarterly<\/em>, 72, 365-383.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f6ckenhoff C.E., De Fruyt F., Terracciano A., McCrae R.R., De Bolle M., Costa Jr. P.T., &#8230; ,<strong>Gheorghiu M.<\/strong><em>et al<\/em>. (2009). Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates. <em>Psychology and Aging, <\/em>24(4), 941-954.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a social psychologist with an interest in social and political issues. 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