Bernadette Watson is a health psychologist who obtained her PhD in 2000 from the University of Queensland, Australia. She researches how individuals in a health context communicate interpersonally and in groups. She examines the influence of identity and intergroup processes and how individuals communicate their identity (patient/health professional) to their speech partners. Her contribution has been to apply and refine theory from a social psychology of language perspective.
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