Tom Farsides
My research interest concerns factors that facilitate or inhibit positive other-regard. Positive other-regard includes activism, altruism, campaigning, charity, citizenship, consideration, courtesy, donating (e.g., blood, organs), helping, prejudice-reduction, volunteering, and a variety of other prosocial behaviours. Important facilitators include a sense of caring, duty, empathy, or responsibility. Important inhibitors include moral myopia (short-sightedness) and selfishness. I also have a special interest in qualitative research methods.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Communication, Language
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Ethics and Morality
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Intergroup Relations
- Interpersonal Processes
- Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
- Person Perception
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
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Altruism in the "Real World"
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In this episode of Student Hours, Tom Farsides discusses a variety of subjects, from his upbringing and time in the navy to his research on acts of altruistism and the motivations behind them. He also discusses how people can encourage altruistic behavior, and why it's important.
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1:43:51 Altruism in the "Real World"
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In this episode of Student Hours, Tom Farsides discusses a variety of subjects, from his upbringing and time in the navy to his research on acts of altruistism and the motivations behind them. He also discusses how people can encourage altruistic behavior, and why it's important.
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1:00:02 Ask the Experts: A Panel Discussion on Kindness
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1:25 Small Acts of Kindness Can Make a Big Difference
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Five tips on how to be kinder (video produced by the British Red Cross)
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7:11 Is It Important to Be Altruistic? (audio interview hosted by the British Psychological Society)
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Journal Articles:
- Drury, J., Stott, C., & Farsides, T. (2003). The role of police perception and practices in the development of "public disorder." Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33(7), 1480-1500.
- Farsides, T. (2007). The psychology of altruism. The Psychologist, 20, 474-477.
- Farsides, T. L. (2005). 'How we can help' rather than 'Give us your money.' Some implications of psychological research for increasing charitable giving. Paper supporting a presentation given at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Mapping the public landscape: Charitable giving and donor motivation. June. London.
- Farsides, T. L. (2000). Winning hearts and minds: Using psychology to promote voluntary organ donation. Health Care Analysis, 8(2), 101-121.
- Farsides, T. L. (1993). Social Identity Theory: A foundation to build upon, not undermine. Theory and Psychology, 3 (2), 207-215.
- Farsides, T. L., & Woodfield, R. (2007). Individual differences in "good" and "first-class" degrees. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 467-483.
- Farsides, T. L., & Woodfield, R. (2003). Individual differences and undergraduate academic success: The roles of personality, intelligence and application. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 1225-1243.
- Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Chiu, C-Y., Farsides, T., Gelfand, M., Hong, Y-Y., Kim, U., Strack, F., Werth, L., Yuki, M., & Yzerbyt, V. (2005). Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? European Journal of Social Psychology, 35, 147-169.
- Kashima, Y., Kashima, E., Farsides, T., Kim, U., Strack, F., Werth, L., & Yuki, M. (2004). Culture and context-sensitive self: The amount and meaning of context-sensitivity of phenomenal self differs across cultures. Self and Identity, 3, 125-141.
- Morgan, J. E., & Farsides, T. L. (2008). Psychometric evaluation of the Meaningful Life Measure. Journal of Happiness Studies. Doi: 10.1007/s10902-008-9093-6.
- Morgan, J. E., & Farsides, T. L. (2007). Measuring meaning in life. Journal of Happiness Studies. doi:10.1007/s10902-007-9075-0.
Other Publications:
- Farsides, T. L. (2003). Cognitive mapping: Generating theories of psychological phenomena from verbal accounts and presenting them diagrammatically. In G. M. Breakwell (Ed.), Doing social psychology research (pp. 255-288). Oxford: BPS Blackwell.
- Farsides, T. L. (1999). Attitudes toward charitable giving: Some focus group results. Research Report for National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).
Courses Taught:
- Altruism and Helping Behaviour
- Caring and Helping: The Psychology of Concern and Commitment
- Communication Skills
- Personality and Individual Differences
- Qualitative Research Methods
Tom Farsides
School of Psychology
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QH
United Kingdom
- Phone: +44 1273 678886
