Research interests

My research focuses on the multiple social and cognitive moderators of voting behaviour and political leadership. Research has shown that the perceived prototypicality of political leaders is of major importance for voting decisions. I am therefore especially interested in examining different factors influencing the perceived prototypicality of political leaders which in turn should affect voting decisions. The national elections within the UK in 2010 are providing an ideal background to examine these processes in reality.

Interests: Leadership, Prototypicality, Projection, Social Categorization, Embodiment, Social Cognition.

Thesis Title

A social cognitive model of perceptions of political leaders and voting behaviour

Supervisor

Dr Georgina Randsley de Moura (1st Supervisor)
Professor Richard Crisp (2nd Supervisor)

Funding

University of Kent Postgraduate Research Scholarship, School of Psychology

Conference Presentations

Leicht, C. , & Crisp. R.  (2009). The impact of multiple identities on In-group Projection.
Poster presented at The British Psychological Society’s Social Section Conference 2009, Sheffield, UK.

Teaching Commitments

SP300 Psychology Statistics and Practical

Centre for the Study of Group Processes

School of Psychology
Keynes College
University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent
CT2 7NP
United Kingdom

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Email: Carola Leicht

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