P ERSONAL
D.O.B:
Current Role: Research Associate, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Address:
27/01/1985
10.06, Tower Building, Park Street, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, Wales
Email:
Websites: easterbrookmj@cardiff.ac.uk http://psych.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/researchstaff/easterbrook.php
http://easterbrook.socialpsychology.org/
E
DUCATION
2009-2013: DPhil 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
R ESEARCH R OLES
28/03/2013 – Present: Research Associate, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK.
I am working on 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, dissemination.
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. 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.
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.

T EACHING
Awards:
2014:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, awarded, 2013.
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:
Demonstrator:
Supervisor:
UG Research Methods in Psychology; UG Social
Psychology; UG Personality and Individual Differences.
PGT Linear Models; PGT Structural Equation Modelling.
5 third year undergraduate empirical projects.
Information Services, University of Sussex:
Designer and Tutor: PGT Beginners SPSS; PGT Intermediate SPSS.
F
UNDING AND
A
WARDS
2014: EASP Seedcorn grant; awarded January 2014: €2000 for the project ‘Unpacking identification’.
2012: Witkin-Okonji Memorial Award; 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; awarded December 2011 - funding to attend 2012 Australian
Summer School in Social Psychology
2010: University of Sussex Residential Services; awarded May 2010 – Funding to conduct psychological research into the University’s student residences
R ESEARCH I NTERESTS
My research focuses on identity, motivation, and group processes. I am particularly interested in how social, cultural, and physical contexts influence these processes, and the consequences social interaction, health, and well-being.
My DPhil research focused on the motivations involved when people incorporate new group memberships into their identity, and how these motives can vary depending on the type of social group involved, the culture an individual lives in, and the structure of the physical environment. As a Research Fellow at Sussex, I focused on the influence of consumer culture on children's well-being, and how identity may act as a moderator of these effects. Now, as a
Research Associate at Cardiff, I am investigating the effects of education and social class on social attitudes and well-being, and the role of social identity processes in explaining these links.
S TATISTICAL S OFTWARE AND E XPERTISE
Programmes: MPlus; MLwiN; HLM; Excel, SPSS, Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Methodologies: Latent growth modelling, Multilevel modelling, Confirmatory factor analysis,
Accelerated cohort analysis, Structural equation modelling.

S UMMER S CHOOLS
2012 Australian Summer School in Social Psychology: One of four EASP postgraduate students sponsored to attend the SASP summer school in Brisbane, Australia.
R EVIEWING D UTIES
 Journal of Environmental Psychology;
 International Journal of Intercultural Relations;
 Self and Identity;
 European Journal of Social Psychology;
 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
 Review of Social Studies,
 Journal of Community and Applied Psychology
 British Educational Research Journal
P ROFESSIONAL M EMBERSHIPS
 British Psychological Society
 British Psychological Society Social Section
 European Association of Social Psychology;
 International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology;
 IACCP Next Generation;
 Society for Personality and Social Psychology;
 Social Psychology Network;
 Culture and Identity Research Network;
 Cardiff Intergroup and Emotions Lab
 Society of Australian Social Psychologists.
R ESEARCH P ROJECTS AND C OLLABORATIONS
 Culture and Identity Research Network: https://sites.google.com/site/identitymotives/
 Children’s Consumer Culture Project: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/consumercultureproject/
 Socio-economic Status, Identity, and Well-Being: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/issw/
 The Many Labs Project: https://docs.google.com/document/d/141o2U8ZCeRMkr0gfz21RiUEICI-
Udt1w8LPSPKPEzU0/edit
 Cardiff Social Psychology Lab: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/research/social_env_psy/index.php
 Dr. Johann Labuschagne, Dr. Jane Royle, Dr Hazel Reynders; Sheffield Teaching
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Psychological Services, Sheffield, UK.
 Dr Vivian Vignoles, Prof. Robin Banerjee, Dr. Helga Dittmar; University of Sussex, UK.
 Dr. Margaret Ormiston, Ms Kawon Kim; London Business School, UK.
 Dr. Nicolas Geeraert, Ms Kali Demes; University of Essex, UK.
 Prof. Russell Spears, Dr. Toon Kuppens, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
 Prof. Tony Manstead, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK.
 Dr. Mark Wright, University of Roehampton, UK.

P APERS AND P UBLICATIONS
Journal articles published or in press
Easterbrook, M. J., & Vignoles, V. L. (in press). 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.
Becker, M. Vignoles, V. L., Owe, E., Easterbrook, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., ...Koller, S. H. (in press). Cultural bases of self-evaluation: Seeing onself positively in different cultural contexts. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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
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.
Invited resubmission/ under revision
Easterbrook, M. J., Wright, M., Dittmar, H. E., & Banerjee, R. A. (2013). Consumer culture ideals, extrinsic motivations, and well-being in children. European Journal of Social Psychology.
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.
C ONFERENCE P APERS AND S YMPOSIA
Easterbrook, M. J., Dittmar, H. E., Banerjee, R., & Wright, M. L. (2014). “My dad’s car is bigger than your dad’s!”: Chidlren’s relative versus absolute socioeconomic status, selfdiscrepancies, and well-being. Paper accepted for the 17 th EASP General Meeting,
Amsterdam, July 9-12.
Manstead, A. S. R., Kuppens, T., & Easterbrook, M. J. (2014). Taking the psychology of social class seriously: New research on socioeconomic status, well-being and prejudice.
Symposium accepted for the 17 th EASP General Meeting, Amsterdam, July 9-12.
Becker, M., Vignoles, V. L., Easterbrook. M., Owe. E., Brown., R., Smith. P. B., ... & Yamakoğlu,
N. (2013). 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 5 th

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.
I NVITED R ESEARCH T ALKS
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.