Vivian L. Vignoles
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QH
United Kingdom
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My primary research interests are in self and identity, especially motivational processes and the influence of culture and context on identity construction, as well as developing a better understanding of the relationship between individual and social representation processes.A main focus of my current research is to develop an integrated theoretical model of identity motivation applicable to individual, relational and group levels of self-representation. The research involves using multilevel modelling to predict aspects of the organisation of multiple elements of identity content within participants’ subjective identity structures. Results suggest that a theoretical model of identity motivation should include motives to maintain and enhance self-esteem, continuity, distinctiveness, belonging, efficacy and meaning. An additional interest is in cross-cultural and indigenous psychologies. In particular I am interested in describing and understanding the significance for identity and action of cultural representations of the person, the self and groups, both within and across nations and especially among non-student populations. One focus has been the motive for distinctiveness, often assumed to be specific to individualistic cultures. Against this assumption, my research focuses on the different ways in which a sense of distinctiveness may be constructed according to both cultural and contextual influences.
 Journal Articles:
 Clay, D., Vignoles, V. L., & Dittmar, H. (2005). Body image and self-esteem among adolescent girls: Testing the influence of sociocultural factors. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15(4), 451-477.
- Droseltis, O., & Vignoles, V. L. (2010). Towards an integrative model of place identification: Dimensionality and predictors of intrapersonal-level place preferences. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 30, 23-34.
- Gheorghiu, M., Vignoles, V. L., & Smith, P. B. (2009). Beyond the United States and Japan: Testing Yamagishi’s emancipation theory of trust across 31 nations. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72, 365-383.
- Manzi, C., Vignoles, V. L., & Regalia, C. (in press). Accomodating a new identity: Possible selves, identity change and well-being across two life-transitions. European Journal of Social Psychology.
- Otway, L. J., & Vignoles, V. L. (2006). Narcissism and childhood recollections: A quantitative test of psychoanalytic predictions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32(1), 104-116.
- Pehrson, S., Vignoles, V. L., & Brown, R. (2009). National identification and anti-immigrant prejudice: Individual and contextual effects of national definitions. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72, 24-38.
- Vignoles, V. L., Chryssochoou, X., & Breakwell, G. M. (2004). Combining individuality and relatedness: Representations of the person among the Anglican clergy. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43(1), 113-132.
- Vignoles, V. L., Chryssochoou, X., & Breakwell, G. M. (2002). Evaluating models of identity motivation: Self-esteem is not the whole story. Self and Identity, 1(3), 201-218.
- Vignoles, V. L., Chryssochoou, X., & Breakwell, G. M. (2002). Sources of distinctiveness: Position, difference and separateness in the identities of Anglican parish priests. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32(6), 761-780.
- Vignoles, V. L., Chryssochoou, X., & Breakwell, G. M. (2000). The distinctiveness principle: Identity, meaning, and the bounds of cultural relativity. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4(4), 337-354.
- Vignoles, V. L., Manzi, C., Regalia, C., Jemmolo, S., & Scabini, E. (2008). Identity motives underlying desired and feared possible future selves. Journal of Personality, 76, 1165-1200.
- Vignoles, V. L., & Moncaster, N. (2007). Identity motives and in-group favouritism: A new approach to individual differences in intergroup discrimination. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 91-113.
- Vignoles, V. L., Regalia, C., Manzi, C., Golledge, J., & Scabini, E. (2006). Beyond self-esteem: Influence of multiple motives on identity construction. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90(2), 308-333.
Other Publications:
- Vignoles, V. L. (2009). The motive for distinctiveness: A universal, but flexible human need. In C. R. Snyder & S. Lopez (Eds.), Oxford handbook of positive psychology (2nd ed., pp. 491-499). New York: Oxford University Press.
- Vignoles, V. L. (2004). Modelling identity motives using multilevel regression. In G. M. Breakwell (Ed.), Doing social psychology research (3rd ed., pp. 174-204). Oxford: Blackwell.
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