Professor Antony Manstead
Emeritus Professor
- Tower Building, Room Room 6.01, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
Overview
Research summary
I am a social psychologist and my research focuses on three topics: emotion, attitudes, and social identity. I am interested in the role emotion plays in interpersonal and intergroup relations. I am also interested in the role played by social identity in intergroup conflict and cooperation.
Links to Research Projects
ESRC/ECRP project on Social Regulation of Emotion
ESRC Secondary Data Analysis project on Identity and Wellbeing
Research
Research topics and related papers
Emotion in competition and cooperation
Krumhuber, E., Manstead, A. S. R., Cosker, D., Marshall, D., Rosin, P.L., & Kappas, A. (2007). Facial dynamics as indicators of trustworthiness and cooperative behaviour. Emotion, 7, 730-735.
Van der Schalk, J., Kuppens, T., Bruder, M., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2015). The social power of regret: The effect of social appraisal and anticipated emotions on fair and unfair allocations in resource dilemmas. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 151-157.
Van Kleef, G. A., De Dreu, C. W., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2010). An interpersonal approach to emotion in social decision making: The Emotions as Social Information Model. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 45-96.
Facial expression of emotion
Krumhuber, E., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2009). Can Duchenne smiles be feigned? New evidence on felt and false smiles. Emotion, 9, 807-820.
Krumhuber, E. G., Kappas, A. and Manstead, A. S. R. (2013). Effects of dynamic aspects of facial expressions: A review. Emotion Review5(1), 41-46.
Social appraisal processes in emotion
Bruder, M., Dosmukhambetova, D., Nerb, J., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2012). Emotional signals in nonverbal interaction: Dyadic facilitation and convergence in expressions, appraisals, and feelings. Cognition & Emotion 26 (3), 480-502.
Manstead, A. S. R., & Fischer, A. H. (2001). Social appraisal: The social world as object of and influence on appraisal processes. In K. R. Scherer, A. Schorr, & T. Johnstone (Eds.), Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Research, Application (pp. 221-232). New York: Oxford University Press.
Emotion in intergroup relations
Doosje, B., Branscombe, N. R., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (1998). Guilty by association: When one’s group has a negative history. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 872-886.
Livingstone, A., Shepherd, L., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2016). “Fury, us”: Anger as a basis for new group self-categories, Cognition and Emotion, 30, 183-192.
Shepherd, L., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2013). When does anticipating group-based shame lead to lower ingroup favoritism? The role of status and status stability. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(3), 334-343.
Social identity and intergroup relations
Livingstone, A. G., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2009). Illegitimacy and identity threat in (inter)action: Predicting intergroup orientations among minority group members. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 755-775.
Scheepers, D., Spears, R., Doosje, B., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2007). The social funcions of ingroup bias: Creating, confirming, or changing social reality. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), European Review of Social Psychology (Vol. 17, pp. 359-396). Hove: Psychology Press.
Recent Funding
Economic and Social Research Council Grant No. ES/L016486/1, “Communicating appraisals and social motives: Interpersonal effects of regulated and unregulated emotion expression” (Principal Investigator). £331,940. See https://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/casm/
Research collaborators
Within UK:
Brian Parkinson (University of Oxford)
Eva Krumhuber (UCL)
Andrew Livingstone (University of Exeter)
Lee Shepherd (Northumbria University)
Joe Sweetman (University of Exeter)
Continental Europe:
Agneta Fischer (University of Amsterdam); Céline Darnon (University of Clermont Auvergne); Toon Kuppens (University of Groningen); Batja Mesquita (University of Leuven); Christian Mumenthaler (University of Geneva); Klaus Scherer (University of Geneva); Russell Spears (University of Groningen).
Teaching
Since October 2018 I have been Emeritus Professor and am no longer involved in teaching.
Biography
Undergraduate education
B.Sc. Joint Honours, Sociology and Psychology, University of Bristol, July 1971
Postgraduate education
D.Phil. Social Psychology, University of Sussex, July 1978
Employment
- 2018 – date: Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University
- 2004 – 2018: Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University
- 2002 – 2004: Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
- 2001: Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
- 1992 – 2001: Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1990 – 1991: Visiting Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1990 – 1992: Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester
- 1988 – 1990: Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
- 1983 (Jan–Sept.): Visiting Research Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- 1976 – 1988: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
- 1974 – 1976: Temporary Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Sussex
Honours and awards
Awards/external committees
Awards
- 2012: Elected to Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales
- 2011: Elected to Fellowship of the British Academy
- 2010: Elected to Fellowship of the Association for Psychological Science
- 2009: Elected to Fellowship of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
- 2008: Recipient of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology’s Henri Tajfel Award for lifetime achievement
- 2006: Elected to Fellowship of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- 2004: British Psychological Society Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge
- 2004: Elected to Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences
- 2002: Elected to Fellowship of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
- 1998: Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award made by SPSSI, The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
- 1993 - 1996: President of European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
- 1992 - 2000: Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester
- 1992: Elected to membership of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
- 1989: Elected to Fellowship of the British Psychological Society
Professional memberships
- Learned Society of Wales
- British Academy
- Association for Psychological Science
- Society of Experimental Social Psychology
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology
- European Association of Social Psychology
- British Psychological Society
Academic positions
- 2004 – 2018: Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University
- 2002 – 2004: Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
- 2001: Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
- 1992 – 2001: Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1990 – 1991: Visiting Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1990 – 1992: Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester
- 1988 – 1990: Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
- 1983 (Jan–Sept.): Visiting Research Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- 1976 – 1988: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
- 1974 – 1976: Temporary Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Sussex
Committees and reviewing
External Committees
I am a member of the Welsh Government's Risk Communication and Behavioural Insights sub-group of the Covid-19 Technical Advisory Group. I have served on several committees of the British Psychological Society, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the International Society for Research on Emotion, and I have been Secretary and President of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology. I was a member of the Psychology Panel in the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise and was Deputy Chair of the Psychology Sub-Panel in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise. I have served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Psychology Section (S6) of the British Academy and as Chair of the Social Sciences Panel of the Newton International Fellowships Awards Committee. I have been Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and Co-Editor of the European Review of Social Psychology. I have also been Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Cognition and Emotion, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science. I have also served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Cognition and Emotion and Personality of Social Psychology Review.
Supervisions
I am no longer supervising research students.