Staff profile

I am a first-generation university graduate and currently a Professor of Behavioral Science at Durham University, a position I have held since 2021. I joined Durham in 2018 as an Associate Professor of Quantitative Social Psychology. Before this, I served as Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent. My academic journey also included a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), during which I spent time at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Research Interests

• Power dynamics: Exploring various forms of power, including dominance, prestige, autonomy, socio-economic status, social class, and power distance.

• Socio-economic inequalities: Investigating inequalities and their implications for wellbeing and performance.

• Social cognition: Studying the intersection of social and cognitive psychology, focusing on heuristics and biases, self-regulation, and mind/body interactions.

• Behaviour change: Designing and evaluating interventions to promote sustainable behaviours.

• Applied behavioural science: Organisational behaviour and using behavioural insights to address real-world challenges.

Service Roles

• Founder and Chair of the First Generation Staff Network (2021 --)
• Director of Workload Management (2020-21)
• Director of the BSc in Behavioural Science (C803) degree programme (2018-21)
• Research Group Lead, Quantitative Social Psychology group (2018-21)

NB: On parental leave during the AY 2021/22.

• 2000: External Roles and Honorary Appointments:
  • 2018-2021 || Honorary Reader, School of Psychology, University of Kent
  • 2014-2015 || Member of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) and Amlin working group on systemic risk of modelling
  • 2009-2011 || Coordinator of the UK Social Cognition Network and Training Scheme (SCONET)
• 2000: Grant Assessment:
  • 2020-present || Panel Member (Ad-hoc) || Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  • 2010-present || Peer Review College Member || Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
    
    
• 2000: Editorial Appointments:
  • 2021 -2023 || Role: Associate Editor || Outlet: European Journal of Social Psychology || Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publishing
  • 2018-2021 || Role: Consulting Editor || Outlet: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes || Publisher: American Psychological Association
  • 2017-2021 || Role: Associate Editor || Outlet: Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology || Publisher: Frontiers
  • 2017-2021 || Role: Associate Editor || Outlet: Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology || Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publishing
  • 2012-2017 || Role: Associate Editor || Outlet: Journal of Applied Social Psychology || Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publishing
  • 2011-2014 || Role: Consulting Editor || Outlet: European Journal of Social Psychology || Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publishing

Chapter in book

• Weick, M. (2024). Social Cognition. In S. Paolini, R. N. Turner, M. Vasiljevic, & R. J. Crisp (Eds.), Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. SAGE Publications

Journal Article

• Hamzah, H. A., Marcinko, A. J., Stephens, B., & Weick, M. (online). Making soft skills ‘stick’: a systematic scoping review and integrated training transfer framework grounded in behavioural science. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432x.2024.2376909
• Hughes, J. P., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2024). Can Environmental Traffic Light Warning Labels Reduce Meat Meal Selection? A Randomised Experimental Study with UK Meat Consumers. Appetite, 200, Article 107500. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107500
• Buttliere, B., Arvanitis, A., Białek, M., Choshen-Hillel, S., Davidai, S., Gilovich, T., Haran, U., Jiang-Wang, Á., Teo, Q. K., Kotrba, V., Liu, C., Mandel, D., Pennycook, G., Rebholz, T. R., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Schwarz, N., Shtudiner, Z., Sloman, S., Sundh, J., Sunstein, C., …Weick, M. (2024). Kahneman in Quotes and Reflections. Psychological Inquiry, 35(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840x.2024.2366813
• Vasiljevic, M., Hughes, J. P., Andersen, C. D., Pennington, G., Leite, A. C., Weick, M., & Couturier, D.-L. (2024). Can warning labels communicating the environmental impact of meat reduce meat consumption? Evidence from two multiple treatment reversal experiments in college dining halls. Food Quality and Preference, 115, Article 105084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2023.105084
• Dougall, I., Vasiljevic, M., Wright, J. D., & Weick, M. (2024). How, when, and why is social class linked to mental health and wellbeing? A systematic meta-review. Social Science & Medicine, 343, Article 116542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116542
• Hughes, J. P., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2023). Impact of pictorial warning labels on meat meal selection: A randomised experimental study with UK meat consumers. Appetite, 190, Article 107026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107026
• Dougall, I., Vasiljevic, M., Kutlaca, M., & Weick, M. (2023). Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0292842. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292842
• Weick, M., Couturier, L.-C., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., Leite, A., Marcinko, A., Nguyen, T., & Van de Vyver, J. (2022). Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, Article 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353
• Dougall, I., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2021). Social class and wellbeing among staff and students in higher education settings: Mapping the problem and exploring underlying mechanisms. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(10), 965-986. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12814
• Ioannou, A., Tussyadiah, I., Miller, G., Li, S., & Weick, M. (2021). Privacy nudges for disclosure of personal information: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 16(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256822
• Leach, S., & Weick, M. (2020). When smiles (and frowns) speak words: Does power impact the correspondence between self-reported affect and facial expressions?. British Journal of Psychology, 111(4), 683-701. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12433
• Leach, S., & Weick, M. (2020). Taking charge of one's feelings: Sense of power and affect regulation. Personality and Individual Differences, 161, Article 109958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109958
• Weick, M. (2020). Power and aggression: making sense of a fickle relationship. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 245-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.10.003
• Moon, C., Uskul, A., & Weick, M. (2019). Cultural differences in politeness as a function of status relations: Comparing South Korean and British communicators. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 3(3), 137-145. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.40
• Leach, S., & Weick, M. (2018). From grumpy to cheerful (and back): How power impacts mood in and across different contexts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.05.004
• Weick, M., Vasiljevic, M., & Sedikides, C. (2018). Taming the lion: How perceived worth buffers the detrimental influence of power on aggression and conflict. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 858. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00858
• Moon, C., Weick, M., & Uskul, A. (2018). Cultural variation in individual's responses to incivility by colleagues of different rank: The role of descriptive and injunctive norms. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(4), 472-489. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2344
• Leach, S., & Weick, S. (2018). Can people judge the veracity of their intuitions?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(1), 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550617706732
• Moon, C., Uskul, A., & Weick, M. (2018). On culture, ethics and hierarchy: How cultural variations in hierarchical relations are manifested in the code of ethics of British and Korean organizations. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12486
• Weick., M., McCall, C., & Blascovich, J. (2017). Power moves beyond complementarity: A staring look elicits avoidance in low power perceivers and approach in high power perceivers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(8), 1188-1201. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217708576
• Leach, S., Weick, M., & Lammers, J. (2017). Does influence beget autonomy? Clarifying the relationship between social and personal power. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 1(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.5
• Weick, M., Vasiljevic, M., Uskul, A., & Moon, C. (2017). Stuck in the heat or stuck in the hierarchy? Power relations explain regional variations in violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, Article e102. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1600114x
• Weick, M., Allen, J., Vasiljevic, M., & Yao, B. (2016). Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias. Cognition, 147, 106-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.006
• Uskul, A., Paulmann, S., & Weick, M. (2016). Social power and recognition of emotional prosody: High power is associated with lower recognition accuracy than low power. Emotion, 16(1), 11-15. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000110
• Strelan, P., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). Power and Revenge. British Journal of Social Psychology, 53(3), 521-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12044
• Yao, B., Vasiljevic, M., Weick, M., Sereno, M., O'Donnell, P., & Sereno, S. (2013). Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it. PLoS ONE, 8(9), Article e75000. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075000
• Guinote, A., Weick, M., & Cai, A. (2012). Does power magnify the expression of dispositions?. Psychological Science, 23(5), 475-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797611428472
• Weick, M., Guinote, A., & Wilkinson, D. (2011). Lack of power enhances visual perceptual discrimination. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65(3), 208-213. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024258
• Abrams, D., Weick, M., Thomas, D., Colbe, H., & Franklin, K. (2011). On-line ostracism affects children differently from adolescents and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29(1), 110-123. https://doi.org/10.1348/026151010x494089
• Wilkinson, D., Guinote, A., Weick, M., Molinari, R., & Graham, K. (2010). Feeling socially powerless makes you more prone to bumping into things on the right and induces leftward line bisection error. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17(6), 910-914. https://doi.org/10.3758/pbr.17.6.910
• Weick, M., & Guinote, A. (2010). How long will it take? Power biases time predictions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(4), 595-604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.03.005
• Weick, M., & Guinote, A. (2008). When subjective experiences matter: power increases reliance on ease of retrieval. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(6), 956-970. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.94.6.956

Report

• Dougall, I., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2021). Inside UK Universities: Staff mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus pandemic. [No known commissioning body]
• Armstrong, S., Weick, M., Sandberg, A., Snyder-Beattie, A., & Beckstead, N. (2017). The underwriter and the models - solo dances or pas-de-deux? What policy data can tell us about how underwriters use models. [No known commissioning body]
• Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room. [No known commissioning body]
• Vasiljevic, M., Weick, M., Taylor-Gooby, P., Abrams, D., & Hopthrow, T. (2013). Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks. [No known commissioning body]
• Weick, M., Hopthrow, T., Abrams, D., & Taylor-Gooby, P. (2012). Cognition: Minding Risks. [No known commissioning body]