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School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK
Mark Bennett is professor of developmental psychology and has published extensively in the area of children's social cognition. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and a former Editor of Infant & Child Development. In 2006 he was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences. Since 2010 he has been a member of ESRC's Grant Assessment Panel.
Since my PhD research, I have had an enduring interest in developmental aspects of social cognition. Initially, my work focused largely on developmental change in understanding of psychological phenomena. Latterly, however, my interests have expanded to incorporate social-level phenomena, notably identity. Drawing upon the theoretical frameworks of social identity theory and self-categorisation theory, I have examined developments in children's social identities, and their impact upon phenomena such as ingroup favouritism, the perception of outgroup homogeneity, and the acquisition of group-relevant information. Recent work, funded by ESRC, examines issues in social categorisation - for example, qualitative developmental change in children's conception of the characteristic and defining attributes of category members; variations in category content, boundaries and prototypical elements as a function of the social context; and children's subjective identification with social groups. In other ESRC-funded research I have addressed developments in children's conceptions of their self-knowledge (with Peter Mitchell) and in their impression management (with Robin Banerjee).
I am currently Associate Editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, and serve on the editorial boards of Infant & Child Development and Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
Self and Identity
Development of self and social identity; conceptions of social groups; social emotions; facework strategies.
Bennett, M., & Sani F. Developmental aspects of the process of social categorisation. ESRC. 1999-2000. £35,296. Rated ‘outstanding’ (i.e. ‘High quality research making an important contribution to the development of the subject.’)
Sani, F. & Bennett, M. Developmental aspects of social identity. ESRC. 2002-2003. £42,661 Rated ‘outstanding’
Bennett, M., & Sani, F. A developmental study of stereotype variability. ESRC. 2003-2004. £28,126. Rated ‘good’.
Mitchell, P., & Bennett, M. Becoming aware that you are the authority on knowledge about yourself. ESRC. 2004-2007. £125,981 (to be divided between Dundee & Nottingham). Rated ‘outstanding’.
Sani, F., & Bennett, M. The ingroup becomes an aspect of the self: the development of children’s sense of “we.” ESRC. 2004-2005. £36,926. Rated ‘outstanding’
Banerjee, R., & Bennett, M. . Self-presentation in childhood: managing public identity after rule violation. ESRC. 2007-2009. £196,000 Rated 'outstanding'.
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| Banerjee, R., Bennett, M., & Luke, N. (in press). Children's reasoning about self-presentation following rule violations: The role of self-focused attention. Child Development. | |
| Banerjee, R., Bennett, M., & Luke, N. (2010). Upsetting others and provoking ridicule: Children’s reasoning about the self-presentational consequences of rule violation. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 28, 941-947. | |
| Bennett, M. (2011). Children's Social Identities. Infant & Child Development, 20, 353-363. | |
| Bennett, M., & Sani, F. (2011). The Internalisation of Group Identities in Childhood. Psychological Studies, 56, 117-124. | |
| Banerjee, R., Bennett, M., & Luke, N. (2010). Children's reasoning about the self-presentational consequences of apologies and excuses following rule violations. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 28, 799-816. | |
| Svirydzenka, N., Sani, F., & Bennett, M. (2010) Perceiving groups as entities: A developmental perspective. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 611-624. | |
| Bennett, M., Allan, S., Anderson, J., & Askar, N. (2010) On the Robustness of the Group Reference Effect. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 349-355. | |
| Mitchell, P., Teucher, U., Kikuno, H.,, & Bennett M. (2010) Cultural variations in developing a sense of knowing your own mind: A comparison between British and Japanese children. International Journal of Behavioral Development. 34 , 248-258. | |
| Bennett, M., Mitchell, P., & Murray, P. (2009) Children's judgments about their own self-knowledge: The role of disclosure to other. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 731-742. | |
| Mitchell, P., Bennett, M., & Teucher, U., (2009) Do children start out thinking they don't know their own mind? An odyssey in overthrowing the mother of all knowledge. European Journal of Developmental Psychology | |
| Mitchell, P., Teucher, U., Bennett, M., Ziegler, F., & Wyton, R. (2009) Do children start out thinking they don't know their own minds? Mind & LanguageVolume 24, Number 3, June 2009 , pp. 328-346(19) | |
| Sani, F., & Bennett, M (2009) Children's Inclusion of the Group in the Self: Evidence from a Self-Ingroup Confusion Paradigm. Developmental Psychology, 45, 503-510 | |
| Bennett, M & Sani, F. (2008) Children's subjective identification with social groups: A group-reference effect approach. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26, 381-388. | |
| Bennett, M & Sani, F. (2008) The effect of context upon stereotype content:children's judgments of ingroup behaviour. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 141-146. | |
| Bennett, M & Sani, F. (2008) Social identities in childhood: When does the group become a part of the self-concept? Social & Personality Psychology Compass. doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00105.x | |
| Martin, J., Bennett, M., & Murray, W. (2008) A developmental study of the infrahumanisation hypothesis. British Journal of Developmental Psychology,26, 153-162. | |
| Bennett, M & Sani, F. (2008) Children’s subjective identification with social categories: A self-stereotyping approach. Developmental Science, 11, 69-75. | |
| Bennett, M. & Sani, F. (2008). Children's identification with social groups. In S. R. Levy & M. Killen (Eds.), Intergroup Relations: An Integrative Developmental and Social Psychological Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
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McGregor, E., & Bennett, M. (2008). Narrative dependency and the false belief task in autism. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 5, 1-18. |
| Bennett, M & Sani, F. (2007). Contextual variation in stereotype content: An investigation of children’s central tendency and group variability judgments.Social Development,4, 241-250. | |
| Bennett, M., Downie, A. and Murray, P. (2007) Children’s judgments about their own self-knowledge: An investigation of the effect of question form. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 4, 241-250. | |
| Bennett, M. (2006) Societal cognition: children's failures of understanding, the role of the wider society, & psychologists' possible collusion. Social Development, 15, 339-343. | |
| Coull, G.J., Leekam, S.R., & Bennett, M. (2006) Simplifying Second-order Belief Attribution: What Facilitates Children's Conceptual Understanding? Social Development, 15, 260-275. | |
| Bennett, M & Sani, F. (2006). Contextual variation in stereotype content: An investigation of children's central tendency and group variability judgments. Social Development, 15, 693-708. | |
| Sani, F., Bennett, M., & Soutar, A.U. (2005) The ecological validity of the "Who said What?" technique: An examination of the role of self-involvement, cognitive interference and acquaintanceship. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 46, 83-90. | |
| Bennett, M., Barrett, M., Karakozov, R., Kipiani, G, Lyons, E., Pavlenko, V., Riazanova, T. (2004) Young children’s evaluations of the ingroup and of outgroups: A multi-national study. Social Development,13, 124-141. | |
| Bennett, M. (2004) Children & Social Identity. The Psychologist. 17, 512-514. | |
| Bennett, M. & Sani, F. (Eds.) (2004) The Development of the Social Self. New York: Psychology Press. | |
| Sani, F., & Bennett, M. (2004) Developmental aspects of social identity. In Bennett, M., & Sani F. (Eds.) The Development of the Social Self. Psychology Press. | |
| Bennett, M. & Sani, F. (2003) The role of gender and race in children's encoding of category-neutral person information.British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 21, 99-112. | |
| Sani, F., Bennett, M. & Mullally, S., & MacPherson, J. (2003) On the assumption of fixity in children's stereotypes: A reappraisal.British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 99, 113-124. | |
| Bennett, M (2002) Reporting of effect sizes. Infant & Child Development, 11, 3, | |
| Bennett, M. (2001) New Insights into the development of self. Infant & Child Development, 4, 155-160. | |
| Sani, F. & Bennett, M (2001) M Contextual variability in young children's gender ingroup stereotypes. Social Development, 10, 221-229. | |
| M. Bennett & Matthews, L. (2000) The role of second-order belief understanding in children's self-attribution of social emotions: a short note. Social Development, 9, 126 -130. | |
| Bennett, M. (2000) Gender differences in the self-estimation of ability, Australian Journal of Psychology, 52, 23-28. | |
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Bennett, M., Sani, F., Hopkins, N., Agostini, L., & Malucchi, L. (2000) Children's gender categorisation: an investigation of automatic processing. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 17, 97-102 |
| Sani, F., Bennett, M., Agostini, L., & Malucchi, L. & Ferguson, N. (2000) Children's understanding of social categories. Journal of Social Psychology 140, 227- 39. | |
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Bennett, M. (ed) (1999) Developmental Psychology: Achievements & Prospects. Psychology Press. |
| Bennett, M & Jamieson, L. (1999) Perceptions of parents as a function of their marital status and sex. Infant and Child Development, 8, 149-154. | |
| Bennett, M., Yuill, N., Banerjee, R., & Thomson, S. (1998) Children's understanding of extended identity. Developmental Psychology, 34, 322-331. | |
| Bennett, M., Barrett, M., Lyons, E., & Sani, F. (1998) Children's subjective identification with the group and ingroup favoritism. Developmental Psychology, 34, 902-909. | |
| Bennett, M. (1997) Self-estimates of ability in men & women. Journal of Social Psychology, 137, 540-541. | |
| Bennett, M. & Knight, M. (1996) Children's understanding of the distinction between real and apparent emotions: A training study. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 157 (3) 267-274. | |
| Bennett M, French S, Scott S, Taylor D (1996) ''I'm Scottish, not British'': Scottish children's self-categorisations and subjective identifications. International Journal of Psychology, 31 (3), 3793 | |
| Bennett, M. & Cormack, C. (1996) Others' actions can reflect on the self: A developmental study of extended identity. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 157 (3), 323-330. | |
| Bennett, M. & Cormack, C. (1996) Age & embarrassment at others' gaffes. Journal of Social Psychology, 136, 113-115. | |
| Bennett, M. & Dewberry, C. (1994) "I've said I'm sorry haven't I?" Apologies as social constraints. Current Psychological Research, 13, 10-20. | |
| Bennett, M. & Earwaker, D. (1994) Victims' responses to apologies: the effects of offender responsibility & offence severity. Journal of Social Psychology, 134, 457-464. | |
| Bennett, M. & Jarvis, J. (1994) Communicative functions of minimal responses in everyday conversation. In R.F. Szafran (Ed) Social Science Research. Austin: Pyrczak Publishing. | |
| Bennett, M (1993) (Ed) The Child as Psychologist. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. ISBN 0 7450 1234 5. Translated into Spanish and Japanese. | |
| Bennett, M. & Galpert, L. (1993) Children's understanding of multiple desires. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 16, 15-33. | |
| Bennett, M. & Hiscock, J (1993) Children's understanding of conflicting emotions: A training study. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 154, 515-523. | |
| Bennett, M. & Buchanan-Barrow, E. (1993) Public self-consciousness in perceptions of disrupted interaction. Journal of Social Psychology, 133, 407-409. | |
| Bennett, M. & Galpert, L. (1992) Developmental changes in understanding the influence of emotions upon cognition and motivation. Motivation & Emotion, 16, 103-115. | |
| Bennett, M. & Galpert, L. (1992) Complex desire-belief reasoning in children.Social Development, 1, 201-210. | |
| Bennett, M. & Gillingham, K. (1991) The role of self-focused attention in children's attributions of social emotions to the self. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 123, 303-309. | |
| Bennett, M. & Jarvis, J. (1991) The communicative function of minimal responses in everyday conversation. Journal of Social Psychology, 130, 519-524. | |
| Bennett, M., Dewberry, C. & Yeeles, C (1991) A reassessment of the role of ethnicity in children's social perception. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 32, 969-982. | |
| Bennett, M., & Yeeles, C (1991) Children's understanding of the self-presentational strategies of self-promotion & ingratiation. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 20, 455-461. | |
| Hibberd, M & Bennett, M. (1990) Questionnaire & Interview Surveys. London: Police Foundation. ISBN 0 947692 19 3. | |
| Bennett, M.(1990) Children's understanding of the mitigating function of disclaimers. Journal of Social Psychology, 130, 29-38. | |
| Bennett, M. (1989) Children's self-attribution of embarrassment.British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 7, 207-217. | |
| Bennett, M. & Dewberry, C (1989) Embarrassment at others' failures: A test of the Semin & Manstead model (1981; 1982). Journal of Social Psychology, 129, 556-557. | |
| Bennett, M. & Rutledge, J. (1989) Self-disclosure to psychiatrists in Asian- & British-born psychiatric outpatients. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2, 155-163. | |
| Bennett, M. (1986) Developmental changes in the attribution of dispositional features. Current Psychological Research & Reviews, 4, 323-329. | |
| Bennett, M. (1986) Children's attribution of dispositional features to affective behaviour. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 147, 423-425. | |
| Bennett, M. & Hibberd, M.C. (1986) Availability & the false consensus effect. Journal of Social Psychology, 126, 403-405. | |
| Bennett, M. (1985) The young child's understanding of others' motives: A predictive facility or simply the post hoc rationalisation of action? Journal of Genetic Psychology, 146, 277-278. | |
| Bennett, M. (1985) The role of information about actors' behaviour & intentionality in children's attributions of personality dispositions. Journal of Social Psychology, 125, 391-394. |
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology
Dissertations Convenor
September 2008-January 2009, Acting Dean of School of Psychology
Associate Dean, School of Psychology
BA Hons Psychology, Reading UK
PhD Psychology, London School of Economics
AcSS
With Professor Peter Mitchell, University of Nottingham, on an ESRC-funded project (£125,981) on the development of children's self-knowledge. Also with Dr Robin Banerjee, University of Sussex, on an ESRC-funded project (£194,000) on the development of children's self-presentation.
From 1996-1998 Mark Bennett was Chair of the Developmental Section of the British Psychological Society, and from 2001-2009 was Editor of Infant & Child Development. Currently he is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and serves on the editorial board of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. In 2005 he was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences.
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