Using a knowledge-attitudes-behavior practice (KABP) paradigm, professionals have
focused on educating the public in biomedical explanations of mental illness. Especially in …

A social representations approach offers an empirical utility for addressing myriad social
concerns such as social order, ecological sustainability, national identity, racism, religious …

The issue of methods in social representations theory has proved contentious for some time,
although we would argue that the focus of this discussion has shifted in recent years. During …

Recent work has called for the integration of different perspectives into the field of political
psychology (Haste, 2012). This chapter suggests that one possible direction that such efforts …

Intergroup relations are of crucial importance in contemporary times, with concerns around
social representations, social influence and collective action remaining salient. A core …

To understand social issues and practices such as those related to climate change and
technological change that are clearly future‐oriented–collectively experienced events that …

In this paper I complement Moscovici's focus on the processes of social representation by
theory of personal presentation that involves construction and destruction of dynamic …

Social representations research is often undertaken by scholars who seek to 'give voice'to
knowledge (s) that are held by socially disenfranchised individuals and groups. However …

To mark 50 years of research on social representations (SR), we planned both a special
issue and a conference to bring together some of the most significant papers from the last 50 …

This paper considers health campaigns, and in particular mental health campaigns, from the
perspective of social representations theory. In particular, it focuses on some of the …