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Lillian Smyth
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Applied social psychology researcher. Self concept, social identity, education & health.
Senior Lecturer @ ANU School of Medicine and Psychology.
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Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review
@naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review - Nature Medicine
The arts, according to a systematic synthesis of data from 95 studies (across 26 countries), may support non-communicable disease prevention by providing opportunities for increased physical activity,...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Compatibility among parts of the self is predictive of more successful transition and better wellbeing. But is that because compatibility is subjectively good in some way, or is it just less work? Do we even have the tools to measure that? Out now and open access: doi.org/10.1080/1529... #socialpsyc
A new look at capturing social identity compatibility in transition: extending and applying the social identity model of identity change to student transition to university
We explore measuring the work required to integrate a new social identity into an existing self-concept during life transitions. We propose a method to quantify the degree to which attributes assoc...
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Another mini-thread of recent papers. First, led by Fauve D'Souza, out today and open access: a systematic review and meta analysis of school-based #mindfulness interventions. What are they good for? doi.org/10.1007/s126...
July 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Delighted to announce the publication of our new paper. We examine the role of discipline identity and organizational identity on students' educational outcomes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Discipline-based social identity and organizational identity as predictors of approaches to learning and evaluation of teaching - European Journal of Psychology of Education
The present research aimed to tease apart the meaning of the “student” identity in higher education by distinguishing the concepts and affordances of discipline-based social identity and organizationa...
link.springer.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Some recent student-led papers from my group that everyone should read/cite.
First, led by Atul Sharma, a systematic review of #meded learning outcomes relating to the health impacts of climate change, with a focus on how much of the biomechanical science we're teaching: doi.org/10.1080/0142...
Are we teaching the health impacts of climate change in a clinically relevant way? A systematic narrative review of biomechanism-focused climate change learning outcomes in medical curricula
Introducing biomedical approaches to the health impacts of climate change can improve medical student engagement with relevant climate-related issues, improve the development of medical schemas, an...
doi.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:25 AM
A summary thread of our #sasp2024 symposium on belonging and social identification in higher education.
November 27, 2024 at 4:26 AM
A brief intro as a 1st post:

+ Research in social psych (esp #selfconcept & #identity) & ed psych (esp #highered & #meded).

+ Teach research methods, design and data analysis

+ Side-project enthusiast, such that it can be difficult to identify my "main" projects.

+ Big fan of long walks.
November 23, 2024 at 1:50 AM