Gail Moloney, BA(Hons)(Murdoch), DipT(Well), PhD(Murdoch) Dr. Gail Moloney is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the Coffs Harbour campus of Southern Cross University. Her primary research interests are in social representations theory and social identity, community and the re-settlement of forced migrants, inter-group relations and social understandings of organ donation and transplantation.
Journal articles
Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation (with Rob Hall and Iain Walker), British Journal of Social Psychology (2005)
This study extends previous research investigating the social representation of organ donation and transplantation (Moloney...
Talking about transplants: social representations and the dialectical, dilemmatic nature of organ donation and transplantation (with Iain Walker), British Journal of Social Psychology (2002)
In many westernized countries, organ donation rates are low in comparison with the need for...
Messiahs, pariahs, and donors: the development of social representations of organ transplants (with Iain Walker), Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (2000)
This longitudinal, qualitative study investigated the genesis and transformation of the social representations of organ...
Case studies in self-management: valuable learning experiences (with Ksenija A. Lackner, Helen Stain, Ruth C. Ward, and Jay S. Birnbrauer), Journal of the Australian Behaviour Modification Association (1998)
Four self-management exercises completed by advanced psychology students as part of their course of instruction...
Books
Social representations and identity : content, process and power (with Iain Walker), School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2007)
Power, social positioning, identity, and social knowledge construction underpin most contemporary social issues. However, in...
Book chapters
Introduction (with Iain Walker), Social representations and identity: content, process and power (2007)
Social representations and the politically satirical cartoon: The construction and reproduction of the refugee and asylum-seeker identity, Social representations and identity: content, process and power (2007)
Theses
Dynamic contradictions : social representations, symbolism, and organ donation and transplantation, PhD thesis, Murdoch University, Perth, WA (2002)
Using social cognition to change energy-use in the commercial sector, Honours thesis, Murdoch University, Perth, WA (1993)
Conference publications
A social representations analysis of hypothetical organ allocation decisions (with Kylie Clark), 42nd Conference of the Australian Psychological Society: Psychology making an impact (2007)
Social barriers to breastfeeding explored using the social representations theoretical framework (with Sandra Canney), 42nd Conference of the Australian Psychological Society: Psychology making an impact (2007)
The reproduction of the refugee and asylum-seeker identity within politically satirical cartoons, Annual conference British Psychological Society (2007)
Social identity theory (Tajfel, 1981) posits that an individual’s social identity is defined through their...
What does it mean to be identified as mentally ill: social representations, unification and differentation (with C Foley), Proceedings of Psychology making an impact: the 42nd APS Annual Conference (2007)
Life and death: the dialectical nature of the social representation of organ donation and transplantation (with Iain Walker), School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2006)
Reports
Contradiction and consensus: understanding the organ donation decision, School of Health and Human Sciences Papers (2003)