Academic Qualifications

• BA, (magna cum laude) University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1967. (Major in sociology.)
• PhD University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1975, Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

My current research reflects my somewhat unusual education. I started in sociology in Canada, and also studied philosophy, mathematics, and languages. The sociology component was in small groups sociology, now called microsociology.

When I began my career as an academic in Australia, it was in a psychology department, and the transition to social psychology was relatively easy. I also designed and taught courses in theory and methodology of psychology, or philosophy of science. I returned to Canada for several years to a position as professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa, where the photo of me sitting on a lawn chair on a frozen river was taken.
 

Previous Positions Held

• Associate Professor, School of Psychology, La Trobe University, 1994-2002.
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, La Trobe University, 1985-1994.
• Lecturer, Department of Psychology, La Trobe University, 1976-1985.
• Senior Demonstrator, Department of Psychology, La Trobe University, 1974-75.
• Sessional lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1972 (social psychology).
• Sessional Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, 1970

 
 

Professional Associations

• Society of Australasian Social Psychologists
  (Inaugural President, 1995-1997);
  Honorary Life Member 2002
• Australian Psychological Society

International

• European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
• Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• American Psychological Society
• American Sociological Association
• Society of Personality and Social Psychology
• Asian Association of Social Psychology
• International Society for Self and Identity
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

 
 

Research Interests

Social psychology deals with the intersection of society, groups, and individuals. My view is that individuals cannot be understood outside of the culture and societies and families in which they live, and are interdependent. My current research is concerned with a range of questions which I see to reflect this stance:

• Trust in strangers in social dilemmas. [PDF forthcoming] Together with colleagues in Australia, Japan, and Europe, I have been examining how people decide to place trust in others, when they are forming new relationships, and there is little information about the other person. This work is in contrast to much work suggesting that trust takes a lot of time to develop, through many successful interactions. Our work starts from the premise that trust is most needed when a person takes a risk by placing his or her fate into the hands of another.
• Status processes in small groups. This topic is a classic in microsociology, but always rewards a researcher with new questions. I work from a framework called status characteristics and expectations, that is a useful way of looking at a diverse range of phenomena, such as gender bias in hiring and promotion; the role played by non-verbal cues in determining the status structure of small groups, and even the importance of dress in impression formation.
• With students, I have done many studies of the attribution of blame to victims and perpetrators of domestic violence. My current interest is in cultural and societal differences in what kinds of behaviour observers regard to be “provocative”, because this is a major factor in assigning blame to victims. This work employs vignette methodologies.
• Development of cooperation and competition in children. The determinants of cooperation in social dilemmas has been a topic of interest in many disciplines for decades, and many of the findings there seem relevant to children.

The brief summary above indicates that I use experimental methods in much of my work. My teaching in philosophy of science has lead me to an ongoing interest in the logic and justification of experiments, and in criticisms of the experiment.

 
 


 
 

Publications

Books (co-authored)

Thorngate, W.B., Dawes, R.D, Foddy, M. &. Judging Merit. Psychology Press. (In press, due out November 2008).

Parks, C.D., Foddy, M., & Van Vugt, M. (due out 2009, Sage Publications). Social Dilemmas: An introduction.

 

Edited volumes

Kashima, Y. and Foddy, M. & Platow, M. J. (Editors) (2002). Self and Identity: Personal, Social and Symbolic. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Foddy, M ., Smithson, M., Schneider, S. and Hogg, M. (Editors) (1999). Resolving Social Dilemmas. Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press.

 

Published articles and book chapters

Foddy, M., Yamagishi, T., & Platow, M. (forthcoming), Psychological Science

Yamagishi, T. & Foddy, M. (forthcoming, 2009) Group-based Trust: Social exchange bases of trust in group contexts. Accepted for publication in: Cook, K. & Hardin, R. (Eds) Trust and Society. New York: Russell Sage Foundation

Foddy, M. & Dawes, R.D., 2008). Ingroup trust in a sequential dilemma. New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas. Edited by: Anders Biel, Daniel Eek, Tommy Garling & Mathias Gustafson. Springer Verlag .

Tanti, C. Stukas, A.A., Halloran, M.J. & Foddy, M.(2008) Tripartite self-concept change: Shifts in the individual, relational, and collective self in adolescence .) Self and Identity, 2008.

Kiyonari, T., Foddy, M., & Yamagishi, T. (2006)  Effects of direct and indirect exchange on trust in in-group members. (In-press, Japanese Journal of Psychology; in Japanese, abstract in English

Yamagishi, T., Foddy, M., Makimura, Y., Matsuda, M. Kiyonari, T., & Platow, M. (2005, (18), 173-190. Comparisons of Australians and Japanese on Group-based Cooperation. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 8, 2005.

Webb, J. & Foddy, M. (2004). Vested Interests in the Decision to Resolve Social Dilemma Conflicts. Small Group Research 35(6), 666-697.

Schneider, S., Foddy, M. & Bilik, L. (2004). Le adership in intergroup social dilemmas: accountability, partisanship and the public good. In: R. Sulieman, D. Budescu, & I. Fischer (Eds.). Contemporary ap proaches to research on social dilemmas . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Platow, M. J., Haslam, S. A., Foddy, M., & Grace, D. M. (2004).

Leadership as the outcome of self-categorization processes. In D. van Knippenberg & M. A. Hogg (Eds.). Leadership and power: Identity processes ingroups and organizations. London: Sage.

Oldmeadow, J., Platow, M., Foddy, M & Anderson, D. (2003). Self-categorization, status, and social Influence. Social Psychology Quarterly , 66:138-152.

Stukas, A. A., Platow, M. J., & Foddy, M. (2002).  The role of social and cognitive factors in the production of altruism.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(2), 276-277.

Foddy, M . and Kashima, Y. (2002). Social-cognitive models of the self. Chapter 1 in Kashima, Y. and Foddy, M., & Platow, M.J. (Eds.) Self and Identity: Personal, Social and Symbolic. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 3-25.

Kashima, Y. and Foddy, M. (2002). Self and Time: The Historical Construction of the Western Self. Chapter 8 in Kashima, Y., Foddy, M., & Platow, M.J. (Eds.) Self and Identity: Personal, Social and Symbolic . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 181-206.

Foddy, M . and Riches, P. (2000). The impact of task cues and categorical cues on social influence: Fluency and ethnic accent as cues to competence in task groups. Advances in Group Processes, 17, 103-130.

Glick, P., Fiske, S., Mladinic, A., Saiz, J. L., Abrams, D., Masser, B., Adetoun, B., Osagie, J., Akande, A., Alao, A., Annetje, B., Willemson, T.M., Chipeta, K., Dardenne, B., Dijksterhuis, A., Wigboldus, D., Eckes, T., Six- Materna, I., Exposito, F., Moya, M., Foddy, M., Kim, H., Lameiras, M., Sotelo, M., Mucchi-Faina, A., Romani, M., Sakalli, N., Udegbe, B., Yamamoto, M., Ui, M., Ferreira, M., Lopez, W. (2001). Beyond Prejudice as Simple Antipathy: Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Across Cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 79,763–775.

Smithson, M. and Foddy, M. (1999). Strategies for the study of social dilemmas. In M. Foddy, M. Smithson, S. Schneider, and M. Hogg, Resolving social dilemmas. Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press, pp. 1-14.

Foddy, M . and Hogg, M. (1999). Impact of Leaders on Resource Consumption in Social Dilemmas: The Intergroup Context . In: Foddy, M., Smithson, M., Schneider, S. and Hogg, M., (Eds.) (1999). Resolving social dilemmas. Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press, pp. 309-330.

Foddy, M ., and Smithson, M. (1999). Can gender inequalities be eliminated? Social Psychology Quarterly, 62, 307-324.

Foddy, M. and Smithson, M. (1996). Relative ability, paths of relevance and influence in task-oriented groups. Social Psychology Quarterly, 59,140-153.

Foddy, M . and Veronese, D. (1996). Does knowing the jointly rational solution make you want to pursue it? Motivational orientation, information, and behavior in two social dilemmas . In W. B.G. Liebrand and D. M. Messick (Eds.), Frontiers in Social Dilemma Research. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (135-155).

Foddy, M . and Crettenden, A. (1994). Leadership and social identity as determinants of resource consumption in a social dilemma. In U. Schulz and W. Albers, (Eds.), Social Dilemmas and Cooperation. Berlin:Springer-Verlag.

Gebart-Eaglemont, J. and Foddy, M. (1994). Creativity and sociometric status of children. The Creativity Research Journal, 7, 47-57.

Foddy, M . and Crundall, I. (1993) A field study of social comparison processes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 287-305.

Hillier, L. and Foddy, M. (1993) Attitudes toward women and attribution of blame in domestic violence. Sex Roles 29, 629-644.  

Foddy, M. and Smithson, M. (1989). Fuzzy sets and double standards: Modelling the process of ability inference. In: J. Berger, M. Zelditch, and B. Anderson, (eds), Sociological Theories in Progress, Volume 3. Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage.  

Riches, P. and Foddy, M . (1989) Ethnic accent as a status cue. Social Psychology Quarterly, 52, 197-206.

Foddy, M. (1989) Information control as a bargaining tactic in social exchange. Advances in Group Processes, 6, 193-231.

Lancaster, S. and Foddy, M. (1988). Self-extensions: A conceptualisation. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 18, 77-94.

Foddy, M. (1988) Paths of relevance and evaluative competence. In: M. Webster and M. Foschi, (eds.), Status Generalization. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Foschi, M. and Foddy, M. (1988). Standards, performances, and the formation of self-other expectations. In: M. Webster and M. Foschi, (eds.), Status Generalization. Stanford , CA: Stanford University Press.

Brann, P. and Foddy, M. (1987). Trust and the consumption of a deteriorating common resource. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 31, 615-630.

Halford, W.K. and Foddy, M. (1982). Cognitive and social skills correlates of social anxiety. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21, 17-28.

Crundall, I. and Foddy, M. (1981). Vicarious exposure to a task as a basis of evaluative competence. Social Psychology Quarterly, 44, 331-38.

Foddy, M. (1978a). Patterns of gaze in cooperative and competitive negotiation. Human Relations, 31, 925-938.

Foddy, M. (1978b). Role-taking in a communication task. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 388-392.

 

Published conference abstracts (last 10 years)

Foddy, M . (2001). The impact of automatic and controlled gender stereotypes on status processes in small groups. European Bulletin of Social Psychology, 13, 41-42.

Foddy, M . Platow, M. & Yamagishi, T. (2001). Group-based trust in strangers: Positive stereotypes or expectations of reciprocity? European Bulletin of Social Psychology, 13, 138-139.

Foddy, M . (2001). Theorising stereotype content. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53 , Supplement, 114.

Foddy, M. & Platow, M. (2000). Responses to common-resource scarcity: Choosing between fairness, self-interest and excluding other group members. Australian Journal of Psychology, 52 (Supplement), p. 7.

Foddy, M. & Platow, M. (1999). Shared category membership as a basis for trust in strangers. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51 (Supplement), p. 7.

Thomson, K. and Foddy, M. (1999). Attributions of b la alme in situations of domestic violence. Australian Journal of Psychology, 51 (Supplement), p. 18.

Foddy, M. (1998). The use of stable attributes in predicting own and others’ performance: Will any proxy do? Australian Journal of Psychology, 50 (Supplement), 20.

Flavell, H. & Foddy, M. (1998). The social comparisons of people coping with a serious chronic health condition: The case of Multiple Sclerosis. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50 (Supplement), 20.

Thomson, K.A, & Foddy, M. (1998). Stereotypes about victims of domestic violence as a basis for victim blame. Australian Journal of Psychology, 50 (Supplement), 36.

Foddy, M. and Hogg, M. (1997). The impact of leaders on resource consumption in social dilemmas: The intergroup context. Australian Journal of Psychology, 49,35-40. (Supplement)

Foddy, M. (1997). The impact of automatic and controlled gender stereotypes on status processes in small groups. Australian Journal of Psychology, 49 (Supplement), 35.

Schneider, S. and Foddy, M. (1997). Leaders in organisational dilemmas: Efficacy and acceptability of different leadership strategies. Proceedings: Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, 64. Melbourne: Australian Psychological Society.

Foddy, M. and Tsakooridis, B. (1996). Distinctiveness of ethnic identity in the spontaneous self-concept: Are enduring values more important? Australian Journal of Psychology, 48 (Supplement), 60.

Schneider,S., Hogg, M. & Foddy, M.(1996). Leadership, social identity, and intragroup conflict. Australian Journal of Psychology 48, (Supplement), 136.

Foddy, M. and Smithson, M. (1995). How much better do women need to be? The effect of performance information on gender-based beliefs about ability. Australian Journal of Psychology, 47 (Supplement), p. 37.

Foddy, M. and Crettenden, A. (1995). Leadership and group identity as determinants of resource consumption in a social dilemma. Australian Journal of Psychology, 47 (Supplement), p. 36.

 

Other reports and publications

Foddy, M. (2001). Putting the “social” into theory about social dilemmas. Newsletter of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, Summer, 2001, p. 4.

Foddy, M., Flannagan, J. and Fry, C. (1996). Women and Research at La Trobe University. (A report of a study done collaboratively with the Equity and Access Unit at La Trobe, including statistical summaries and results of an interview study.)

Foddy, M. and Crabbe, B. (1996) Directory of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists (seventh edition). Australian National University.

 

Conference papers given

I attend between three and six conferences each year, and at almost all of these, I give papers and/or organize a symposium. The se conferences include: Society of Experimental Social Psychology (including the Groups Pre-conference); American Psychological Society; American Sociological Association (including the Groups Pre-Conference), European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (every three years), and several medium and small sized meetings sponsored by EAESP; International Conference on Social Dilemmas (every two years), and when in Australia, the Annual Meeting of SASP, The Society of Australasian Social Psychology. .

Details of papers presented at these meetings are available if requested.

 

Non-academic publications

Foddy, M. The Psychologist. Melbourne: Educa Press, 1983. A non-sexist careers book published in conjunction with Sugar&Snails Press.

 

Books (co-authored)

Thorngate, W.B., Dawes, R.D, Foddy, M. &. Judging Merit. Psychology Press. (In press, due out November 2008).

Parks, C.D., Foddy, M., & Van Vugt, M. (due out 2009, Sage Publications). Social Dilemmas: An introduction.

 

Edited volumes

Kashima, Y. and Foddy, M. & Platow, M. J. (Editors) (2002). Self and Identity: Personal, Social and Symbolic. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Foddy, M ., Smithson, M., Schneider, S. and Hogg, M. (Editors) (1999). Resolving Social Dilemmas. Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press.

 

Published articles and book chapters

Foddy, M., Yamagishi, T., & Platow, M. (forthcoming), Psychological Science

Yamagishi, T. & Foddy, M. (forthcoming, 2009) Group-based Trust: Social exchange bases of trust in group contexts. Accepted for publication in: Cook, K. & Hardin, R. (Eds) Trust and Society. New York: Russell Sage Foundation

Foddy, M. & Dawes, R.D., 2008). Ingroup trust in a sequential dilemma. New Issues and Paradigms in Research on Social Dilemmas. Edited by: Anders Biel, Daniel Eek, Tommy Garling & Mathias Gustafson. Springer Verlag .

Tanti, C. Stukas, A.A., Halloran, M.J. & Foddy, M.(2008) Tripartite self-concept change: Shifts in the individual, relational, and collective self in adolescence .) Self and Identity, 2008.

Kiyonari, T., Foddy, M., & Yamagishi, T. (2006)  Effects of direct and indirect exchange on trust in in-group members. (In-press, Japanese Journal of Psychology; in Japanese, abstract in English

Yamagishi, T., Foddy, M., Makimura, Y., Matsuda, M. Kiyonari, T., & Platow, M. (2005, (18), 173-190. Comparisons of Australians and Japanese on Group-based Cooperation. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 8, 2005.

Webb, J. & Foddy, M. (2004). Vested Interests in the Decision to Resolve Social Dilemma Conflicts. Small Group Research 35(6), 666-697.

Schneider, S., Foddy, M. & Bilik, L. (2004). Le adership in intergroup social dilemmas: accountability, partisanship and the public good. In: R. Sulieman, D. Budescu, & I. Fischer (Eds.). Contemporary ap proaches to research on social dilemmas . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Platow, M. J., Haslam, S. A., Foddy, M., & Grace, D. M. (2004).

Leadership as the outcome of self-categorization processes. In D. van

Knippenberg & M. A. Hogg (Eds.). Leadership and power: Identity processes ingroups and organizations. London: Sage.

Oldmeadow, J., Platow, M., Foddy, M & Anderson, D. (2003). Self-categorization, status, and social Influence. Social Psychology Quarterly , 66:138-152.

Stukas, A. A., Platow, M. J., & Foddy, M. (2002).  The role of social and cognitive factors in the production of altruism.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(2), 276-277.

Foddy, M . and Kashima, Y. (2002). Social-cognitive models of the self. Chapter 1 in Kashima, Y. and Foddy, M., & Platow, M.J. (Eds.) Self and Identity: Personal, Social and Symbolic. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 3-25.

Kashima, Y. and Foddy, M. (2002). Self and Time: The Historical Construction of the Western Self. Chapter 8 in Kashima, Y., Foddy, M., & Platow, M.J. (Eds.) Self and Identity: Personal, Social and Symbolic . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 181-206.

Foddy, M . and Riches, P. (2000). The impact of task cues and categorical cues on social influence: Fluency and ethnic accent as cues to competence in task groups. Advances in Group Processes, 17, 103-130.

Glick, P., Fiske, S., Mladinic, A., Saiz, J. L., Abrams, D., Masser, B., Adetoun, B., Osagie, J., Akande, A., Alao, A., Annetje, B., Willemson, T.M., Chipeta, K., Dardenne, B., Dijksterhuis, A., Wigboldus, D., Eckes, T., Six- Materna, I., Exposito, F., Moya, M., Foddy, M., Kim, H., Lameiras, M., Sotelo, M., Mucchi-Faina, A., Romani, M., Sakalli, N., Udegbe, B., Yamamoto, M., Ui, M., Ferreira, M., Lopez, W. (2001). Beyond Prejudice as Simple Antipathy: Hostile and Benevolent Sexism Across Cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 79,763–775.

Smithson, M. and Foddy, M. (1999). Strategies for the study of social dilemmas. In M. Foddy, M. Smithson, S. Schneider, and M. Hogg, Resolving social dilemmas. Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press, pp. 1-14.

Foddy, M . and Hogg, M. (1999). Impact of Leaders on Resource Consumption in Social Dilemmas: The Intergroup Context . In: Foddy, M., Smithson, M., Schneider, S. and Hogg, M., (Eds.) (1999). Resolving social dilemmas. Philadelphia, Pa.: Psychology Press, pp. 309-330.

Foddy, M ., and Smithson, M. (1999). Can gender inequalities be eliminated? Social Psychology Quarterly, 62, 307-324.

Foddy, M. and Smithson, M. (1996). Relative ability, paths of relevance and influence in task-oriented groups. Social Psychology Quarterly, 59,140-153.

Foddy, M . and Veronese, D. (1996). Does knowing the jointly rational solution make you want to pursue it? Motivational orientation, information, and behavior in two social dilemmas . In W. B.G. Liebrand and D. M. Messick (Eds.), Frontiers in Social Dilemma Research. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (135-155).

Foddy, M . and Crettenden, A. (1994). Leadership and social identity as determinants of resource consumption in a social dilemma. In U. Schulz and W. Albers, (Eds.), Social Dilemmas and Cooperation. Berlin:Springer-Verlag.

Gebart-Eaglemont, J. and Foddy, M. (1994). Creativity and sociometric status of children. The Creativity Research Journal, 7, 47-57.

Foddy, M . and Crundall, I. (1993) A field study of social comparison processes. British Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 287-305.

Hillier, L. and Foddy, M. (1993) Attitudes toward women and attribution of blame in domestic violence. Sex Roles 29, 629-644.

Foddy, M. and Smithson, M. (1989). Fuzzy sets and double standards: Modelling the process of ability inference. In: J. Berger, M. Zelditch, and B. Anderson, (eds), Sociological Theories in Progress, Volume 3. Newbury Park, Ca.: Sage.

Riches, P. and Foddy, M . (1989) Ethnic accent as a status cue. Social Psychology Quarterly, 52, 197-206.

Foddy, M. (1989) Information control as a bargaining tactic in social exchange. Advances in Group Processes, 6, 193-231.

Lancaster, S. and Foddy, M. (1988). Self-extensions: A conceptualisation. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 18, 77-94.

Foddy, M. (1988) Paths of relevance and evaluative competence. In: M. Webster and M. Foschi, (eds.), Status Generalization. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Foschi, M. and Foddy, M. (1988). Standards, performances, and the formation of self-other expectations. In: M. Webster and M. Foschi, (eds.), Status Generalization. Stanford , CA: Stanford University Press.

Brann, P. and Foddy, M. (1987). Trust and the consumption of a deteriorating common resource. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 31, 615-630.

Halford, W.K. and Foddy, M. (1982). Cognitive and social skills correlates of social anxiety. British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 21, 17-28.

Crundall, I. and Foddy, M. (1981). Vicarious exposure to a task as a basis of evaluative competence. Social Psychology Quarterly, 44, 331-38.

Foddy, M. (1978a). Patterns of gaze in cooperative and competitive negotiation. Human Relations, 31, 925-938.

Foddy, M. (1978b). Role-taking in a communication task. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 388-392.

 

Non-academic publications

Foddy, M. The Psychologist. Melbourne: Educa Press, 1983. A non-sexist careers book published in conjunction with Sugar&Snails Press.