Overview
Availability
- Dr Sarah Bentley is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Social psychology
Trained as a social psychologist in the social identity tradition, my research focuses on an empirical understanding of the contextual drivers of human behaviour, including within socio-technical settings. My work aims to empirically evaluate these drivers, whether in the form of a person’s social identities, their sense of psychological affiliation (in contexts such as the workplace or educational settings), and their situated cognitive processes (perception, awareness, information processing).
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Social psychological applications
My work aims to translate social psychological findings into applications of use to everyday life, whether that be measuring implicit social bias in humans and AI, tackling social isolation, improving learners’ understanding of the impact of a sense of belonging on performance, or addressing the need to better measure the role of technology in shaping societal in/equities.
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Responsible Innovation
Over the last several years I have conducted research as part of UQ’s School of Psychology, CSIRO’s Responsible Innovation Future Science Platform, and now back at UQ within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. This convergence of experience and perspectives has provided me with unique insights into the motivation, articulation, operationalisation and evaluation of Responsible Innovation (RI) and more specifically Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI).
Works
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2021
Journal Article
To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A COVID‐19 test case
Hornsey, Matthew J., Chapman, Cassandra M., Alvarez, Belen, Bentley, Sarah, Casara, Bruno Gabriel Salvador, Crimston, Charlie R., Ionescu, Octavia, Krug, Henning, Selvanathan, Hema Preya, Steffens, Niklas K. and Jetten, Jolanda (2021). To what extent are conspiracy theorists concerned for self versus others? A COVID‐19 test case. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51 (2) ejsp.2737, 285-293. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2737
2021
Journal Article
Identity leadership in a crisis: a 5R framework for learning from responses to COVID-19
Haslam, S. Alexander, Steffens, Niklas K., Reicher, Stephen D. and Bentley, Sarah V. (2021). Identity leadership in a crisis: a 5R framework for learning from responses to COVID-19. Social Issues and Policy Review, 15 (1), 35-83. doi: 10.1111/sipr.12075
2020
Book Chapter
Social isolation
Bentley, Sarah V. (2020). Social isolation. Together apart: the psychology of COVID-19. (pp. 73-78) edited by Jolanda Jetten, Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam and Tegan Cruwys. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications.
2020
Journal Article
Social identity mapping online
Bentley, Sarah, Greenaway, Katharine H., Haslam, S. Alexander, Cruwys, Tegan, Steffens, Niklas K., Haslam, Catherine and Cull, Ben (2020). Social identity mapping online. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118 (2), 213-241. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000174
2020
Journal Article
Rethinking the nature of the person at the heart of the biopsychosocial model: exploring social changeways not just personal pathways
Haslam, S. Alexander, Haslam, Catherine, Jetten, Jolanda, Cruwys, Tegan and Bentley, Sarah V. (2020). Rethinking the nature of the person at the heart of the biopsychosocial model: exploring social changeways not just personal pathways. Social Science and Medicine, 272 113566, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113566
2019
Journal Article
GROUPS 4 HEALTH reduces loneliness and social anxiety in adults with psychological distress: findings from a randomized controlled trial
Haslam, Catherine, Cruwys, Tegan, Chang, Melissa X. -L., Bentley, Sarah V., Haslam, S. Alexander, Dingle, Genevieve A. and Jetten, Jolanda (2019). GROUPS 4 HEALTH reduces loneliness and social anxiety in adults with psychological distress: findings from a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87 (9), 787-801. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000427
2019
Journal Article
Group life shapes the psychology and biology of health: the case for a sociopsychobio model
Haslam, S. Alexander, Haslam, Catherine, Jetten, Jolanda, Cruwys, Tegan and Bentley, Sarah (2019). Group life shapes the psychology and biology of health: the case for a sociopsychobio model. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13 (8) e12490. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12490
2019
Other Outputs
Learning from a social identity perspective
Bentley, Sarah Vivienne (2019). Learning from a social identity perspective. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.560
2019
Journal Article
Construction at work: multiple identities scaffold professional identity development in academia
Bentley, Sarah V., Peters, Kim, Haslam, S. Alexander and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2019). Construction at work: multiple identities scaffold professional identity development in academia. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 (MAR) 628, 628. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00628
2017
Journal Article
Cognition in context: Social inclusion attenuates the psychological boundary between self and other
Bentley, Sarah V., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Haslam, S. Alexander (2017). Cognition in context: Social inclusion attenuates the psychological boundary between self and other. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 42-49. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.06.008
2017
Journal Article
An online paradigm for exploring the selfreference effect
Bentley, Sarah V., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Haslam, S. Alexander (2017). An online paradigm for exploring the selfreference effect. PLoS One, 12 (5) e0176611, e0176611. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176611
2017
Book Chapter
The role of psychological need satisfaction in promoting student identification
Greenaway, Katharine, Amiot, Catherine E., Louis, Winnifred R. and Bentley, Sarah V. (2017). The role of psychological need satisfaction in promoting student identification. Self and social identity in educational contexts. (pp. 176-192) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315746913-ch10
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- AI and society
- Collaborative intelligence
- Digital inclusion
- Group dynamics
- Human-AI decision-making
- Human-AI teaming
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence
- Responsible Innovation
- Social identity
- Social psychology
- Societally-centred technology
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