Dr Katharine Greenaway
Honorary Senior Fellow
School of Psychology
Researcher biography
My research focuses on social functioning in three main domains: identity processes, emotion regulation, and human agency. At its heart, my research aims to understand the formation and consequences of social connections between people. I conduct two broad programs of work that address these research goals. My first line of research explores how emotions shape our social connections, focusing on how emotion can be regulated to create social harmony or social distance. My second line of work explores how and why social groups improve personal and social functioning, with consequences for individual health and well-being as well as group productivity and communication.
I completed my PhD at the University of Queensland before taking up a position as Global Scholar with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Global Fellow Academy. I worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Alex Haslam at the University of Queensland before beginning my Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship in 2016. In 2017 I began a position as Lecturer the University of Melbourne and now hold an Honorary Research Appointment at the University of Queensland.
Publications
Book Chapters
Bingley, William J., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Fielding, Kelly S. (2020). Greening the physical environment of organizational behaviour. Organizational behaviour and the physical environment. (pp. 167-184) edited by Oluremi B. Ayoko and Neal M. Ashkanasy. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315167237-9
Greenaway, Katharine H., Philipp, Michael C. and Storrs, Katherine R. (2017). The motivation for control: loss of control promotes energy, effort, and action. Coping with lack of control in a social world. (pp. 35-48) edited by Marcin Bukowski, Immo Fritsche, Ana Guinote and Mirosław Kofta. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Greenaway, Katharine H. , Philipp, Michael C. and Storrs, Katherine R. (2017). The motivation for control: loss of control promotes energy, effort, and action. Coping with lack of control in a social world. (pp. 35-48) edited by Marcin Bukowski, Immo Fritsche, Ana Guinote and Miroslaw Kofta. New York, NY, United States: Taylor & Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315661452
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
Haslam, S. Alexander, Haslam, Catherine, Cruwys, Tegan, Jetten, Jolanda, Dingle, Genevieve A. and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2017). Applying the social identity approach in clinical and health domains: key principles and insights. Addiction, behavioral change and social identity: the path to resilience and recovery. (pp. 14-33) edited by Sarah A. Buckingham and David Best. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Greenaway, Katharine, Peters, Kim, Haslam, S. Alexander and Bingley, William (2016). Shared identity and the intergroup dynamics of communication. Advances in intergroup communication. (pp. 19-33) edited by Howard Giles and Anne Maass. New York, United States: Peter Lang Publishing.
Greenaway, Katharine H., Louis, Winnifred R., Parker, Stacey L., Kalokerinos, Elise K., Smith, Joanne R. and Terry, Deborah J. (2015). Measures of coping for psychological well-being. Measures of personality and social psychological constructs. (pp. 322-351) edited by Gregory Boyle, Donald H. Saklofske and Gerald Matthews. London, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-386915-9.00012-7
Louis, Winnifred, Barlow, Fiona Kate and Greenaway, Katharine (2012). National identity, Australian values and outsiders. Peace psychology in Australia. (pp. 87-104) edited by Diane Bretherton and Nikola Balvin. New York, United States: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1403-2_6
Journal Articles
Greenaway, Katharine H. (2022). Electing to Take Control: Political Identification and Personal Control. Political Psychology. doi: 10.1111/pops.12873
Bingley, William J., Tran, Anh, Boyd, Candice P., Gibson, Kari, Kalokerinos, Elise K., Koval, Peter, Kashima, Yoshihisa, McDonald, Dianna and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2022). A multiple needs framework for climate change anxiety interventions. American Psychologist, 77 (7), 812-821. doi: 10.1037/amp0001012
Koval, Peter, Kalokerinos, Elise K., Greenaway, Katharine H., Medland, Hayley, Kuppens, Peter, Nezlek, John B., Hinton, Jordan D. X. and Gross, James J. (2022). Emotion regulation in everyday life: Mapping global self-reports to daily processes. Emotion, 23 (2), 357-374. doi: 10.1037/emo0001097
Klebl, Christoph, Rhee, Joshua J., Greenaway, Katharine H., Luo, Yin and Bastian, Brock (2021). Physical attractiveness biases judgments pertaining to the moral domain of purity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49 (2), 1461672211064452-295. doi: 10.1177/01461672211064452
Imhoff, Roland, Alexopoulos, Theodore, Cichocka, Aleksandra, Degner, Juliane, Dixon, John, Easterbrook, Matthew J., Greenaway, Katharine H., Henry, P. J., Marshall, Tara, Papies, Esther K., Rothmund, Tobias, Shnabel, Nurit and Smith, Joanne (2021). Thoroughly thought through? Experimenting with Registered Reports. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51 (7), 1035-1037. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2829
Greenaway, Katharine H., Kalokerinos, Elise K., Hinton, Sienna and Hawkins, Guy E. (2021). Emotion experience and expression goals shape emotion regulation strategy choice. Emotion, 21 (7), 1452-1469. doi: 10.1037/emo0001012
Klebl, Christoph, Rhee, Joshua J., Greenaway, Katharine H., Luo, Yin and Bastian, Brock (2021). Beauty goes down to the core: attractiveness biases moral character attributions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 46 (1), 83-97. doi: 10.1007/s10919-021-00388-w
Bingley, William J., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Haslam, S. Alexander (2021). A social-identity theory of information-access regulation (SITIAR): understanding the psychology of sharing and withholding. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17 (3), 1745691621997144-840. doi: 10.1177/1745691621997144
Sels, Laura, Tran, Anh, Greenaway, Katharine H., Verhofstadt, Lesley and Kalokerinos, Elise K. (2021). The social functions of positive emotions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 39, 41-45. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.12.009
Austen, Emma, Greenaway, Katharine H. and Griffiths, Scott (2020). Differences in weight stigma between gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men. Body Image, 35, 30-40. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.08.002
Gallois, Cindy, Vanman, Eric J., Kalokerinos, Elise K. and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2020). Emotion and its management: the lens of language and social psychology. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40 (1), 0261927X2096672-59. doi: 10.1177/0261927x20966722
Slepian, Michael L., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Masicampo, E. J. (2020). Thinking through secrets: rethinking the role of thought suppression in secrecy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46 (10), 1411-1427. doi: 10.1177/0146167219895017
Klebl, Christoph, Greenaway, Katharine H., Ju-suk Rhee, Joshua and Bastian, Brock (2020). Ugliness judgments alert us to cues of pathogen presence. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12 (5), 617-628. doi: 10.1177/1948550620931655
Osborne, Margaret S., Munzel, Brendan and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2020). Emotion goals in music performance anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 1138. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01138
Cruwys, Tegan, Greenaway, Katharine H., Ferris, Laura J., Rathbone, Joanne A., Saeri, Alexander K., Williams, Elyse, Parker, Stacey L., Chang, Melissa X-L., Croft, Nicholas, Bingley, William and Grace, Laura (2020). When trust goes wrong: a social identity model of risk taking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120 (1), 57-83. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000243
Cruwys, Tegan, Stevens, Mark and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2020). A social identity perspective on COVID‐19: health risk is affected by shared group membership. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59 (3) bjso.12391, 584-593. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12391
McDonald, Rachel I., Salerno, Jessica M., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Slepian, Michael L. (2020). Motivated secrecy: politics, relationships, and regrets. Motivation Science, 6 (1), 61-78. doi: 10.1037/mot0000139
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
Greenaway, Katharine H. and Vohs, Kathleen D. (2019). Avoiding regulatory rigidity and approaching regulatory flexibility. Psychological Inquiry, 30 (3), 155-157. doi: 10.1080/1047840X.2019.1646056
Ysseldyk, Renate, Greenaway, Katharine H., Hassinger, Elena, Zutrauen, Sarah, Lintz, Jana, Bhatia, Maya P., Frye, Margaret, Starkenburg, Else and Tai, Vera (2019). A leak in the academic pipeline: identity and health among postdoctoral women. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 (JUN) 1297. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01297
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
Greenaway, Katharine H. and Kalokerinos, Elise K. (2019). The intersection of goals to experience and express emotion. Emotion Review, 11 (1), 50-62. doi: 10.1177/1754073918765665
Greenaway, Katharine H., Haslam, S. Alexander and Bingley, William (2018). Are “they” out to get me? A social identity model of paranoia. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22 (7), 136843021879319-1001. doi: 10.1177/1368430218793190
Slepian, Michael L. and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2018). The benefits and burdens of keeping others’ secrets. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 220-232. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.02.005
Hornsey, Matthew J., Greenaway, Katharine H., Harris, Emily A. and Bain, Paul G. (2018). Exploring cultural differences in the extent to which people perceive and desire control. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45 (1), 014616721878069-92. doi: 10.1177/0146167218780692
Greenaway, Katharine H. and Cruwys, Tegan (2018). The source model of group threat: responding to internal and external threats. The American Psychologist, 74 (2), 218-231. doi: 10.1037/amp0000321
Greenaway, Katharine H., Kalokerinos, Elise K. and Williams, Lisa A. (2018). Context is Everything (in Emotion Research). Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 12 (6), e12393. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12393
Greenaway, Katharine H., Kalokerinos, Elise K., Murphy, Sean C. and McIlroy, Thomas (2018). Winners are grinners: expressing authentic positive emotion enhances status in performance contexts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 168-180. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.013
Greenaway, Katharine H. and Aknin, Lara B. (2018). Do people turn to visible reminders of group identity under stress?. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48 (4), 205-216. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12503
Jetten, Jolanda, Haslam, S. Alexander, Cruwys, Tegan, Greenaway, Katharine H., Haslam, Catherine and Steffens, Niklas K. (2017). Advancing the social identity approach to health and well-being: progressing the social cure research agenda. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47 (7), 789-802. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2333
Greenaway, Katharine H., Fisk, Kylie and Branscombe, Nyla R. (2017). Context matters: Explicit and implicit reminders of ingroup privilege increase collective guilt among foreigners in a developing country. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47 (12), 677-681. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12482
Amiot, Catherine E., Sukhanova, Ksenia, Greenaway, Katharine H. and Bastian, Brock (2017). Does human–animal similarity lower the need to affirm humans’ superiority relative to animals? A social psychological viewpoint. Anthrozoos, 30 (3), 499-516. doi: 10.1080/08927936.2017.1335117
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
Greenaway, Katharine H. and Kalokerinos, Elise K. (2017). Suppress for success? Exploring the contexts in which expressing positive emotion can have social costs. European Review of Social Psychology, 28 (1), 134-174. doi: 10.1080/10463283.2017.1331874
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
Kalokerinos, Elise K., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Casey, James P. (2017). Context shapes social judgments of positive emotion suppression and expression. Emotion, 17 (1), 169-186. doi: 10.1037/emo0000222
Jugert, Philipp, Greenaway, Katharine H., Barth, Markus, Buchner, Ronja, Eisentraut, Sarah and Fritsche, Immo (2016). Collective efficacy increases pro-environmental intentions through increasing self-efficacy. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 48, 12-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.08.003
Greenaway, Katharine H., Cruwys, Tegan, Haslam, S. Alexander and Jetten, Jolanda (2016). Social identities promote well-being because they satisfy global psychological needs. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46 (3), 294-307. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2169
Greenaway, Katharine H., Thai, Hannibal A., Haslam, S. Alexander and Murphy, Sean C. (2016). Spaces that signal identity improve workplace productivity. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 15 (1), 35-43. doi: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000148
Cruwys, Tegan, Greenaway, Katharine H. and Haslam, S. Alexander (2015). The stress of passing through an educational bottleneck: a longitudinal study of psychology honours students. Australian Psychologist, 50 (5), 372-381. doi: 10.1111/ap.12115
Greenaway, Katharine H., Frye, Margaret and Cruwys, Tegan (2015). When Aspirations Exceed Expectations: Quixotic Hope Increases Depression among Students. PLoS One, 10 (9) e0135477, e0135477-e0135477. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135477
Tobin, Stephanie J., Greenaway, Katharine H., McCulloch, Kathleen C. and Crittall, Marie E. (2015). The role of motivation for rewards in vicarious goal satiation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 137-143. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.010
Hornsey, Matthew J., Fielding, Kelly S., McStay, Ryan, Reser, Joseph P., Bradley, Graham L. and Greenaway, Katharine H. (2015). Evidence for motivated control: understanding the paradoxical link between threat and efficacy beliefs about climate change. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 42, 57-65. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.02.003
Kalokerinos, Elise K., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Denson, Thomas F. (2015). Reappraisal but not suppression downregulates the experience of positive and negative emotion. Emotion, 15 (3), 271-275. doi: 10.1037/emo0000025
Greenaway, Katharine H., Haslam, S. Alexander, Cruwys, Tegan, Branscombe, Nyla R. and Ysseldyk, Renate (2015). From "we" to "me": group identification enhances perceived personal control with consequences for health and well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109 (1), 53-74. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000019
Greenaway, Katharine H., Jetten, Jolanda, Ellemers, Naomi and van Bunderen, Lisanne (2015). The dark side of inclusion: undesired acceptance increases aggression. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18 (2), 173-189. doi: 10.1177/1368430214536063
Greenaway, Katharine H., Wright, Ruth G., Willingham, Joanne, Reynolds, Katherine J. and Haslam, S. Alexander (2015). Shared identity is key to effective communication. Personality And Social Psychology Bulletin, 41 (2), 171-182. doi: 10.1177/0146167214559709
Greenaway, Katharine H., Storrs, Katherine R., Philipp, Michael C., Louis, Winnifred R., Hornsey, Matthew J. and Vohs, Kathleen D. (2015). Loss of control stimulates approach motivation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 235-241. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2014.10.009
Greenaway, Katharine H., Cichocka, Alexsandra, van Veelen, Ruth, Likki, Tiina and Branscombe, Nyla R. (2014). Feeling hopeful inspires support for social change. Political Psychology, 37 (1), 89-107. doi: 10.1111/pops.12225
Cruwys, Tegan, South, Erica I., Greenaway, Katharine H. and Haslam, S. Alexander (2014). Social identity reduces depression by fostering positive attributions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6 (1), 65-74. doi: 10.1177/1948550614543309
Kalokerinos, Elise K., Greenaway, Katharine H., Pedder, David J. and Margetts, Elise A. (2013). Don't Grin When You Win: The Social Costs of Positive Emotion Expression in Performance Situations. Emotion, 14 (1), 180-186. doi: 10.1037/a0034442
Greenaway, Katharine H., Louis, Winnifred R., Hornsey, Matthew J. and Jones, Janelle M. (2013). Perceived control qualifies the effects of threat on prejudice. British Journal of Social Psychology, 53 (3), 422-442. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12049
Greenaway, Katharine H., Louis, Winnifred R. and Hornsey, Matthew J. (2013). Loss of Control Increases Belief in Precognition and Belief in Precognition Increases Control. PLoS ONE, 8 (8) e71327, e71327.1-e71327.5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071327
Smith, Joanne R., Louis, Winnifred R., Terry, Deborah J., Greenaway, Katharine H., Clarke, Miranda R. and Cheng, Xiaoliang (2012). Congruent or conflicted? The impact of injunctive and descriptive norms on environmental intentions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 32 (4), 353-361. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.06.001
Ronay, Richard, Greenaway, Katharine, Anicich, Eric M. and Galinsky, Adam D. (2012). The Path to Glory Is Paved With Hierarchy: When Hierarchical Differentiation Increases Group Effectiveness. Psychological Science, 23 (6), 669-677. doi: 10.1177/0956797611433876
Greenaway, Katharine H., Louis, Winnifred R. and Wohl, Michael J. A. (2012). Awareness of common humanity reduces empathy and heightens expectations of forgiveness for temporally distant wrongdoing. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3 (4), 446-454. doi: 10.1177/1948550611425861
Greenaway, Katherine H., Quinn, Emerald A. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2011). Appealing to common humanity increases forgiveness but reduces collective action among victims of historical atrocities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41 (5), 569-573. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.802
Greenaway, Katharine H. and Louis, Winnifred R. (2009). Only human: Hostile human norms reduce legitimisation of intergroup discrimination by perpetrators of historical atrocities. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (4), 765-783. doi: 10.1348/014466609X479202
Conference Paper
Vanman, EJ, Iyer, A, Henrion, M, Witowski, P, Berndt, SL, Greenaway, KH and Hornsey, MJ (2010). Images of terrorism: The emotional impact of viewing scenes of the aftermath. 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Portland, OR, U.S.A., 29 September-3 October, 2010. Malden, MA, U.S.A.: Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01111.x
Research Report
Thesis
Katharine Greenaway (2012). Psychological Strategies for Control Restoration. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.