Toward a comprehensive and potentially cross-cultural model of why people engage in collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of four motivations and …

M Agostini, M van Zomeren - Psychological Bulletin, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Sociopsychological theorizing and research on collective action (eg, social protests) has
mushroomed over the last decade, studying a wide variety of groups, contexts, and cultures …

State authenticity as fit to environment: The implications of social identity for fit, authenticity, and self-segregation

T Schmader, C Sedikides - Personality and Social …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
People seek out situations that “fit,” but the concept of fit is not well understood. We introduce
S tate A uthenticity as F it to the E nvironment (SAFE), a conceptual framework for …

The Greta Thunberg Effect: Familiarity with Greta Thunberg predicts intentions to engage in climate activism in the United States

A Sabherwal, MT Ballew… - Journal of applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Despite Greta Thunberg's popularity, research has yet to investigate her impact on
the public's willingness to take collective action on climate change. Using cross‐sectional …

Why do youth participate in climate activism? A mixed-methods investigation of the# FridaysForFuture climate protests.

CAP Haugestad, AD Skauge, JR Kunst… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The# FridaysForFuture movement has attracted young activists around the world. In the
present mixed-method, socio-cultural psychological research, we investigate people's …

The social psychology of responses to trauma: Social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses

OT Muldoon, SA Haslam, C Haslam… - European Review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Research in clinical psychology and social psychiatry has highlighted the importance of
social factors for outcomes following trauma. In this review, we speak to this issue in two …

The activist's dilemma: Extreme protest actions reduce popular support for social movements.

M Feinberg, R Willer, C Kovacheff - Journal of personality and …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
How do protest actions impact public support for social movements? Here we test the claim
that extreme protest actions—protest behaviors perceived to be harmful to others, highly …

Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action

M van Zomeren, M Kutlaca… - European Review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Collective action refers to any action that individuals undertake as group members to pursue
group goals such as social change. In this chapter, we further extend the Social Identity …

Protesting to challenge or defend the system? A system justification perspective on collective action

D Osborne, JT Jost, JC Becker… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Social identity, shared grievances, and group efficacy beliefs are well‐known antecedents to
collective action, but existing research overlooks the fact that collective action often involves …

Being moved by protest: Collective efficacy beliefs and injustice appraisals enhance collective action intentions for forest protection via positive and negative emotions

H Landmann, A Rohmann - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Based on collective action theories and appraisal theories of emotion, we propose that
people are moved and positively overwhelmed by the idea that together they can make a …

Intergroup contact and social change: Implications of negative and positive contact for collective action in advantaged and disadvantaged groups

NK Reimer, JC Becker, A Benz… - Personality and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Previous research has shown that (a) positive intergroup contact with an advantaged group
can discourage collective action among disadvantaged-group members and (b) positive …