Matthew J. Easterbrook Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sussex

PERSONAL

D.O.B: 27/01/1985 Current Role: Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Sussex Address: 3B4 Pevensey II, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 1273 97 6597

Websites: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/173988 http://easterbrook.socialpsychology.org/

EDUCATION

2009-2013: Ph.D in Psychology; University of Sussex, UK. Supervisor: Dr Vivian L. Vignoles; External examiner: Prof. Russell Spears. Thesis title: Putting the person in their place: Effects of physical and social contexts on identity, affiliation, and well-being. 2004-2007: BSc (Hons) Psychology (First class); University of Sussex, UK

RESEARCH ROLES

28/03/2013 – 18/06/2014: Research Associate, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK. This was an ESRC funded Secondary Data Analysis Initiative project investigating socioeconomic status, education, social identity, and well-being. It involves analysing large national- and international- datasets, disseminating findings, writing papers. Main investigators: Tony Manstead and Toon Kuppens; Website: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/issw/ 01/09/2012 - 18/03/2013: Research Fellow; School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK. This involved contacting and recruiting schools for a large-scale survey and experimental data collection, data management, cleaning, and analysis, organising a multidisciplinary conference, dissemination, supervising undergraduate dissertations. Main investigators: Helga Dittmar and Robin Banerjee Website: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/consumercultureproject/ 2008-2009: Research Assistant; School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK. This involved conducting in-depth literature reviews, creating annotated bibliographies, and contributing to the writing of a theoretical paper regarding identity and continuity. Main investigator: Vivian Vignoles 2008: Research Assistant; Residential Services, University of Sussex, UK. This involved collating data from an on-line survey, conducting statistical analysis, presenting results, and writing reports.

CONSULTANCY

2014: Statistical Consultant: Public Interest Research Centre, North Wales; Well-being Policy Consultant; East Sussex County Council TEACHING

Awards: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, awarded, 2013.

2014: School of Psychology, Cardiff University: Lecturer: Postgraduate Research Design and Statistics; Supervisor: Research in Practice Placement.

2009-2013: School of Psychology, University of Sussex: Associate Tutor: UG Research Methods in Psychology; UG Social Psychology; UG Personality and Individual Differences. Demonstrator: PGT Linear Models; PGT Structural Equation Modelling. Supervisor: 5 third year undergraduate empirical projects.

Information Services, University of Sussex: Designer and Tutor: PGT Beginners SPSS; PGT Intermediate SPSS.

FUNDING AND AWARDS

2014: British Psychological Society Postdoctoral/Lecturer Conference Bursary, awarded May, 2014: £300 to attend EASP's 17th General Meeting in Amsterdam

EASP Travel grant; awarded April, 2014: €800 to attend 17th General Meeting in Amsterdam.

EASP Seedcorn grant; awarded January 2014: €2000 for the project ‘Unpacking identification’.

2012: Witkin-Okonji Memorial Award ~ £1000, awarded March 2012 – funding to attend the International Congress of the International Association for Cross- Cultural Psychology (IACCP) in Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2012. 2011: EASP travel grant ~ £700, awarded December 2011 - funding to attend 2012 Australian Summer School in Social Psychology

2010: University of Sussex Residential Services - £400; awarded May 2010 – Funding to conduct psychological research into the University’s student residences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research mainly focuses on how the social, cultural, and physical context can influence psychological processes related to identity, motivation, and social groups, as well as the consequences of these processes for social interactions, health, and well-being.

STATISTICAL SOFTWARE AND EXPERTISE

Programmes: MPlus; MLwiN; HLM; Excel, SPSS, Macromedia Dreamweaver. Techniques: Latent growth modelling, Multilevel modelling, Confirmatory factor analysis, Accelerated cohort analysis, Structural equation modelling. SUMMER SCHOOLS

2012 Australian Summer School in Social Psychology: One of four EASP postgraduate students sponsored to attend the SASP summer school in Brisbane, Australia.

REVIEWING DUTIES

 British Educational Research Journal;

 Child and Youth Care Forum;

 European Journal of Social Psychology;

 Health Psychology;

 International Journal of Intercultural Relations;

 Journal of Community and Applied Psychology;

 Journal of Environmental Psychology;

 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin;

 Review of Social Studies;

 Self and Identity;

 Social and Personality Psychology Compass

 Social Issues and Policy Review

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 British Psychological Society

 British Psychological Society Social Section

 Cardiff Intergroup and Emotions Lab

 Culture and Identity Research Network;

 European Association of Social Psychology;

 IACCP Next Generation;

 International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology;

 Social Psychology Network;

 Society for Personality and Social Psychology;

 Society of Australian Social Psychologists.

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS  Cardiff Social Psy. Lab: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/research/social_env_psy/index.php

 Consumer Culture Project: www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/consumercultureproject/

 Culture and Identity Research Network: https://sites.google.com/site/identitymotives/

 Dr Vivian Vignoles, Prof. Robin Banerjee, Dr. Helga Dittmar; University of Sussex, UK.

 Dr. Johann Labuschagne, Dr. Jane Royle, Dr Hazel Reynders; Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Psychological Services, Sheffield, UK.

 Dr. Margaret Ormiston, Ms Kawon Kim; London Business School, UK.

 Dr. Mark Wright, University of Roehampton, UK.

 Dr. Nicolas Geeraert, Ms Kali Demes; University of Essex, UK.

 Ms. Rachel O’Brien, Office of National Statistics, National Well-Being Programme

 Prof. Greg Maio, Paul Hanel; Values in Action Laboratory, Cardiff University: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/via/people/

 Prof. Russell Spears, Dr. Toon Kuppens, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

 Prof. Tony Manstead, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK.

 Socio-economic Status, Identity, and Well-Being: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/issw/

 The Many Labs 2 Project

PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles published or in press

Easterbrook, M. J., Wright, M., Dittmar, H. E., & Banerjee, R. A. (2014). Consumer culture ideals, extrinsic motivations, and well-being in children. European Journal of Social Psychology, Advanced Online Publication. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2020 Easterbrook, M. J., & Vignoles, V. L. (2014). When friendship formation goes down the toilet: Design features of shared accommodation influence the development of interpersonal bonds and well-being. British Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.111/bjso.12062 . Becker, M. Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Easterbrook, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., ...Koller, S. H. (2014). Cultural bases of self-evaluation: Seeing oneself positively in different cultural contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi: 10.1177/0146167214522836 Easterbrook, M., & Vignoles, V. L. (2013). What does it mean to belong? Interpersonal bonds and intragroup similarities as predictors of felt belonging in different types of groups. European Journal of Social Psychology. 43, 455-462. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1972. Easterbrook, M., & Vignoles, V. L. (2012). Different groups, different motives: Identity motives underlying changes in identification with novel groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1066-1080. doi:10.1177/0146167212444614 Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Easterbrook, M., … & Yamakoğlu, N. (2012). Culture and the distinctiveness motive: Constructing identity in individualistic and collectivistic contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 833-855. doi: 10.1037/a0026853 Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Lee, S. W. S., Easterbrook, M., … & Jalal, B. (2012). Contextualism as an important facet of individualism- collectivism: Personhood beliefs across 37 national groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44, 24-45. doi: 10.1177/0022022111430255

Other publications

Easterbrook, M. (2011, August 5). Urbanization and the construction of a distinct identity. IACCP Youth Group Blog. Retrieved from http://www.iaccp.org/drupal/node/401. Easterbrook, M. J. (2014, May 14). Constructing self-esteem across cultures. Society for Social and Personality Psychology Blog. Retrieved from http://www.spspblog.org/constructing-self-esteem-across-cultures/ Easterbrook, M. J., Manstead, A. S. R, & Kuppens, T. (2014, May 20). The education effect: How education is associated with personal and social benefits. UK Data Service Case Studies. Retrieved from http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/use-data/data-in-use/case-study/? id=151 Easterbrook, M. J., Manstead, A. S. R, & Kuppens, T. (2014, July 1). The wellbeing effect of education. ESRC Evidence Briefing. Retrieved from http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/The %20wellbeing%20effect%20of%20education_tcm8-31129.pdf CONFERENCE PAPERS AND SYMPOSIA

Easterbrook, M. J., Dittmar, H. E., Banerjee, R., & Wright, M. L. (2014). “My dad’s car is bigger than your dad’s!”: Children’s relative versus absolute socioeconomic status, self- discrepancies, and well-being. Paper presented at the 17th EASP General Meeting, Amsterdam, July 9-12. Manstead, A. S. R., Kuppens, T., & Easterbrook, M. J. Brandt, M. J. (2014). Taking the psychology of social class seriously: New research on socioeconomic status, well-being and prejudice. Symposium presented at the 17th EASP General Meeting, Amsterdam, July 9-12. Dittmar, H. E., Easterbrook, M. J., Banerjee, R., Wright, M. L., & Hurst, M. (2014). When the pursuit of ‘looking good’ is bad for you: Longitudinal evidence on the links between body ideal values, identity, and well-being in primary and secondary school children. Paper presented at the 6th Appearance Matters Conference, Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, UK, July 1-2. Kuppens, T., Easterbrook, M. J., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2014). Life at the bottom of the ladder: Challenges in coping with educational stigma. Paper presented at the 16th Jena Workshop on Intergroup Processes, Schloss Oppurg, Germany, June 26-29. Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., Easterbrook. M., Owe. E., Brown., R., Smith. P. B., ... & Yamakoğlu, N. (2013). Identity motives across cultures. Paper presented at the 15th Jena Workshop on Intergroup Processes, July 4-7. Easterbrook, M., Dittmar, H. E., Wright, M., Banerjee, R. A. (2013). What happens to children who want to be too rich and too beautiful over time? Longitudinal research on the impact of consumer culture values on children's well-being’. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Self-Determination Theory, Rochester, New York, June 27-30. Easterbrook, M., & Owe, E. (2012). Unpacking variation in self and identity across cultures: New directions and challenges. Symposium presented at the IACCP 21st International Congress 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 17-21. Easterbrook, M., Vignoles, V. L, and members of the Culture and Identity Research Network. (2012). The generality of identity motives across cultures. Paper presented at the IACCP 21st International Congress 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 17-21. Kim, K., Ormiston, M. E., Easterbrook, M., & Vignoles, V. L. (2012). Identity shift toward belonging in demographically diverse groups. Paper presented at the Seventh Annual INGRoup Conference, Chicago, USA, July 12-14. Becker, M., Easterbrook, M., Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Brown, R., Smith, P. et al. (2011). Motivational conflict between distinctiveness and belonging: Fundamental or cultural? Paper presented at the 16th EASP General Meeting, Stockholm, July 12-16. Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., and members of the Culture and Identity Research Network. (2011). Cultural bases of self-esteem: Seeing oneself positively in different cultural contexts. Paper presented at the IACCP Regional Conference 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 - July 3. Easterbrook, M., Vignoles, V. L. (2011). The ways we belong: Routes to belonging in different types of groups. Paper presented at the 16th EASP General Meeting, Stockholm, July 12-16. Easterbrook, M., Vignoles, V. L., and members of the Culture and Identity Research Network. (2011). Urbanization and the construction of a distinctive identity. Paper presented at the IACCP Regional Conference 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 - July 3. Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., and members of the Culture and Identity Research Network. (2011). Measuring culture: Values, beliefs and practices across 34 nations and 57 cultural groups. Paper presented at the IACCP Regional Conference 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 - July 3. Vignoles, V. L., and members of the Culture and Identity Research Network. (2011). Identity motives in cultural context: An introduction. Paper presented at the IACCP Regional Conference 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, June 30 - July 3. Becker, M., Vignoles, V.L., Owe, E., Brown, R., Smith, P.B., Easterbrook, M., ... & Yamakoğlu, N. (2010). Culture and the distinctiveness principle: Results from a 19- nation study. Paper presented at the BPS Social Psychology Conference, Winchester, UK, September 7-9. Becker, M., Vignoles, V.L., Owe, E., Brown, R.J., Smith, P.B., Easterbrook, M., ... & Yamakoğlu, N. (2010). The motive for distinctiveness in cultural context: Results from a 19-nation study. Paper presented at the Congress of the IACCP. Melbourne, Australia, July 7-10.

INVITED RESEARCH TALKS

Easterbrook, M. J., Banerjee, R. A., & Dunkeld, C. (2013). Social contexts of youth well- being: Socio-economic status, consumer culture, and peer relations. Clinical and Developmental Research in Practice, Falmer, East Sussex: University of Sussex Easterbrook, M. J., & Dittmar, H. E. (2014). Exploring identity as a driver of change in the context of psychological and health outcomes. Social and Applied Psychology Research Group Informal Seminars, Falmer, East Sussex: University of Sussex.