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Lean O'Brien LLB(Hons) BSc (Hons) Psych, ANU Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: 6125 2699 F: 6125 0740 Email

Research Interests

• Identity processes and their health outcomes

• The link between socio-structural factors and individual outcomes, including work and family strain and the transmission of parent work strains to child health outcomes.

• The social identity perspective and group based factors affecting people's attitudes to existing and proposed government policy.
  

Selected Recent Publications

OBrien LV, McGarty C. Explaining political disagreement in intergroup terms: When do we come to believe that 'insiders' have misled the outgroup? British Journal of Social Psychology (Accepted March, 2008).