Müjde Peker

Postgraduate Researcher

Research interests

My main research interests lie within the areas of social identity, self-categorization, multiple-categorization, ingroup projection and intergroup discrimination. In my PhD thesis, I am looking at the cognitive, motivational and ideological determinants of ingroup projection. In the first part of my research, I looked at whether having a coherent and complex superordinate category representation would effect ingroup projection. The second part of my research is mainly concerned with the legitimizing role of ingroup projection for intergroup status differences. More specifically, I have been investigating whether low status groups actively legitimize the status differences or passively reflect them when they engage in lower levels of projection and whether this can be explained by theories of system justification and social identity. The final part of my research is looking at the effects of threat on ingroup projection aiming to answer whether ingroup members have a general motive to protect the superordinate category when they are projecting their ingroup characteristics to it.

Thesis Title

Cognitive, motivational and ideological determinants of ingroup projection

Supervisor

Professor Richard Crisp

Funding

The Leverhulme Trust

Publications and Conference Presentations

Peker, M., Crisp, R. J., Rubin, M., & Hogg, M. Predictors of ingroup projection: The roles of superordinate category coherence and complexity. Manuscript under review.

Peker, M., Crisp, R. J., Rubin, M., & Hogg, M. (2007, September). Passive reflection or active legitimization? Intergroup status differences as a predictor of ingroup projection. Poster presented at the 54th BPS Social Psychology Section Conference, Kent, England.

Peker, M., Crisp, R. J., & Hogg, M. (2007, January). Predictors of ingroup projection: The roles of superordinate category coherence and complexity. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, Tennessee.

Peker, M., Crisp, R. J., & Hogg, M. (2006, September). Coherence and systematicity as predictors of ingroup projection. Poster presented at the 53rd BPS Social Psychology Section Conference, Birmingham, England.