Dr

Sarah Bentley

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Fields of research

Applied and developmental psychology Artificial intelligence Community psychology Educational psychology Fairness, accountability, transparency, trust and ethics of computer systems Human-centred computing Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors) Information and Computing Sciences Planning and decision making Psychology Psychology of ageing Social and personality psychology Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified Social psychology Sport and exercise psychology

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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).

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48 works between 2017 and 2026
All (48) Book (2) Journal Article (40) Other Outputs (1) Book Chapter (5)

41 - 48 of 48 works

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

Rethinking the nature of the person at the heart of the biopsychosocial model: exploring social changeways not just personal pathways

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

GROUPS 4 HEALTH reduces loneliness and social anxiety in adults with psychological distress: findings from a randomized controlled trial

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

Group life shapes the psychology and biology of health: the case for a sociopsychobio model

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

Learning from a social identity perspective

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

Construction at work: multiple identities scaffold professional identity development in academia

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

Cognition in context: Social inclusion attenuates the psychological boundary between self and other

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

An online paradigm for exploring the selfreference effect

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

The role of psychological need satisfaction in promoting student identification

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2025
    Hearing, social connectedness, and well-being of ageing adults in Australia
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    House of Commons Online 5R Leadership Program - Phase 2
    UK House of Commons
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2023
    House of Commons Online 5R Leadership Program - Phase 3
    UK House of Commons
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    House of Commons Online 5R Leadership Program - Phase 1
    UK House of Commons
    Open grant
  • 2020
    House of Commons 5R Training
    University of Exeter
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2022
    GROUPS 4 EDUCATION at Exeter (G4Ex): A Framework for Enhancing Student Well-being Through Developing Social Connectedness and Agentic Learning
    University of Exeter
    Open grant

Availability

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Enquiries

Contact Dr Sarah Bentley directly for media enquiries about:

  • 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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