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Dr Genavee Brown

Assistant Professor

Department: Psychology

I study the benefits and risks of technology for relationships from a social psychology persepctive. I am interested in examining the types of relationships that people maintain online and how they use tools, like social media, to help them communicate with strangers, friends and family. More specifically, I have looked at how mobile phones can distract from friendship interactions. I have also examined how university students use Facebook to maintain and develop friendships during the transition to university. 

I am currently working on projects concerning online misogyny, emoticon usage in different cultures, LGBT relationships online, the experiences of gender diversee people, and the experience of power online. 

My future research projects will center on how we can preven online misogyny before it happens through using privacy controls and automated dictionnaries to find online misogyny. I will also continue my research on how cell phones can be so distracting during our face-to-face interactions and why we're so tempted to use them even when we know that they detract from our romantic and friendship interactions. 

Genavee Brown

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • The Scroll of Approval: Receiving More Likes on Social Media Makes People Feel More Powerful, Brown, G., Dawson, J., Merrit, J., McCarty, K. 3 Feb 2025, In: Communication Reports
  • Does the Jigsaw method improve motivation and self-regulation in vocational high schools?, Riant, M., de Place, A., Bressoux, P., Batruch, A., Bouet, M., Bressan, M., Brown, G., Butera, F., Cepeda, C., Cherbonnier, A., Darnon, C., Demolliens, M., Desrichard, O., Ducros, T., Goron, L., Hémon, B., Huguet, P., Jamet, E., Martinez, R., Mazenod, V., Mella, N., Michinov, E., Michinov, N., Ofosu, N., Peter, L., Petitcollot, B., Poletti, C., Régner, I., Robert, A., Rudmann, O., Sanrey, C., Stanczak, A., Toumani, F., Vilmin, S., Paolo Visintin, E., Vives, E., Pansu, P. 1 Jun 2024, In: Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • Predicting vaccination hesitancy: The role of basic needs satisfaction and institutional trust, Marinthe, G., Brown, G., Cristea, M., Kutlaca, M. 11 Jun 2024, In: Vaccine
  • We're All the Same: Collective Narcissists' Cross- National Support for Putin and Russian Military Attacks, Brown, G., Marinthe, G. 17 Jan 2024, In: International Review of Social Psychology
  • How queer hook-up/people nearby application (PNA) users navigate hybrid digital and local space in rural and urban areas: results from a multi-region qualitative scoping study in the United Kingdom (UK), Rawlings, R., Brown, G., Thomas, L., Coventry, L. 31 Dec 2023, AoIR2023, Association of Internet Researchers
  • A meta-analysis of the reliability of the Sexual Self-Esteem Inventory in Women (SSEI-W) measure, Lloyd, A., Brown, G., Pollet, T. 2 Oct 2022, In: Psychology and Sexuality
  • Do it for others! The role of family and national group social belongingness in engaging with COVID-19 preventive health behaviors, Marinthe, G., Brown, G., Jaubert, T., Chekroun, P. 1 Jan 2022, In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • I dream of socializing, sports, and serenity: Imagining a positive future-vaccinated self is associated with better attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination, Brown, G., de Place, A. 1 Oct 2022, In: Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Phoning It in: Social Anxiety, Intolerance of Uncertainty, and Anxiety Reduction Motivations Predict Phone Use in Social Situations, Brown, G., Medcalf-Bell, R. 11 Jun 2022, In: Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • “The Chinese virus”: How COVID-19’s transmission context and fear affect negative attitudes toward Chinese people., Brown, G., Marinthe, G. 1 May 2022, In: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

  • Richard Rawlings Hook-up app usage as (dis)connection among rural men who have sex with men (MSM):Para-ethnographic zine-production as reciprocal ‘assemblage’. Start Date: 06/09/2022
  • Jordan Dawson Sexism Online: What is it and how do we stop it? Start Date: 01/10/2022

  • Psychology PhD June 04 2018
  • Psychology MRes July 01 2014
  • Psychology BA (Hons) May 10 2010


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