Dr Lindsey Cameron

Dr Lindsey Cameron is a Reader in Psychology and Director of Undergraduate Student Experience and Student Success in the School of Psychology.  Her area of research is social developmental psychology.

Lindsey is interested in how children become ‘social beings’: how do children develop the social knowledge and skills that we have as adults take for granted?  Specifically, she is interested in how inter-group processes develop throughout childhood. Her research interests are as follows:

• The development of inter-group attitudes in children and the role of social norms, self-presentation, cognitive development and in-group identification in determining these attitudes
• The development of school-based interventions to change children’s inter-group attitudes
• Inter-group contact (direct and indirect) and novel interventions based on this approach
• Measuring the impact of intercultural education interventions on attitudes, stereotypes, cultural awareness and knowledge
• Acculturation in childhood
• The experience of prejudice and discrimination, and its consequences for social development

Collaborators

Charities and diversity education organisations across Europe, including:

• One Globe Kids
• Rights and Equality Sandwell
• The Office of the Children’s Commissioner
• Anti-bullying charity Salus
• People United

Key publications

• Abrams, D., Pelletier, J., Van de Vyer, J., Cameron, L., & Lee, E. (2015). Children’s prosocial behavioural intentions toward outgroup members: The effects of intergroup competition, empathy and social perspective taking. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Early. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12085
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• Palmer, S., Rutland, A., & Cameron, L. (2015). The development of bystander intentions and social-moral reasoning about intergroup verbal aggression. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
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• Stathi, S., Cameron, L., Hartley, B., & Bradford, S. (2014). Imagined contact as a prejudice‐reduction intervention in schools: The underlying role of similarity and attitudes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 44, 536-546. doi:10.1111/jasp.12245
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• Abrams, D., Palmer, S. B., Rutland, A., Cameron, L., & Van de Vyver, J. (2014). Evaluations of and reasoning about normative and deviant ingroup and outgroup members: Development of the black sheep effect. Developmental Psychology, 50, 258-270. doi:10.1037/a0032461
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• Abbott, N., & Cameron, L. (2014). What makes a young assertive bystander? The effect of intergroup contact, empathy, cultural openness, and in-Group bias on assertive bystander intervention intentions. Journal of Social Issues, 70,167-182. doi:10.1111/josi.12053

Past research students

• Dr Caitlin Baker: Strategic colour blindness and interracial interaction (2020)
• Dr Lauren Spinner: Socialising gender: The role of parents, peers, and the media in children’s gender-typed preferences and stereotypes (2017)
• Dr Sally Palmer: The development of bystander intervention in children and adolescents: When and why do children and adolescents challenge intergroup discrimination?(graduated summer 2015)
• Dr Nicola Abbott: Bystander intervention in racist incidents in adolescence (graduated summer 2014)

Appointments / memberships

• Appointed to the Editorial Advisory Panel of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Grants and Awards