Arthur Stukas

Dec 23, 2024 | theconversation.com | Arthur Stukas |La Trobe

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia’s history. Wind speeds reached more than 200 kilometres per hour. The cyclone claimed 71 lives and injured nearly 650, and left 70% of the city’s buildings flattened. If you are about 60 or older, chances are you remember that day, even if the cyclone did not directly affect you.

Dec 4, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Mathew D. Marques |John Kerr |Arthur Stukas |Jim McLennan

1. IntroductionConspiracy theories are narratives which attribute the cause and/or cover-up of an important event or phenomena from the public to a powerful and secretive group of malicious conspirators (Douglas et al., 2019). Understanding the phenomenon of conspiracy belief has proved challenging due to its complex and multifaceted nature.

Sep 2, 2024 | spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mathew D. Marques |Arthur Stukas

INTRODUCTION Privilege can be defined as an unearned advantage conferred based on group membership (McIntosh, 2007). For example, men are overrepresented in positions of power (ABS, 2020) and paid more than women for the same work (KPMG, 2022). Traditionally, psychology has treated gender inequality as a result of discrimination against women, with a great deal of research examining sexism, but relatively little on the other side of the coin: male privilege.