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Assessing Policy‐Oriented Learning About Climate‐Related Forest Disturbances in Europe

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European forests provide multiple ecosystem services but are increasingly under pressure from climate‐related disturbances such as droughts, storms and insect calamities. Forest policy is an important driver for the adaptation of forest management practices to climate change.
Pascal Renaud‐Bernath, Metodi Sotirov, Jens Nilsson, Annica Sandström, Karin Beland Lindahl, Marcin Mielewczyk, Krzysztof Niedziałkowski, Zala Uhan, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh   +8 more
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Is Evidence‐Based Policymaking an Environmental Studies Agenda? An Interpretive Review

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studies of knowledge development and use for public decision‐making can be found across the social sciences. There have been increasing calls for meaningful integration of the contrasting disciplinary perspectives on this topic, including from environmental and sustainability sciences.
Peter Tangney, Raisa Adamjee
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders, Mike Quayle, Paul Maher, Ana‐Maria Bliuc, Pádraig MacCarron   +4 more
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Harnessing Diversity: Majority‐Group Acculturation Predicts Creativity and Flourishing Over Time

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Creativity and flourishing are core aims of higher education (HE) institutions and government initiatives globally. Large‐scale projects have linked creativity and flourishing with cultural diversity, yet their associations with majority‐group acculturation (i.e., how members of dominant culture groups adopt minority‐cultural elements and/or ...
David Colledge, K. Addington‐Lefringhausen, D. Dauber, Y. Zhu, K. H. Kim, N. Ferenczi, J. R. Kunst, T. C. Marshall, H. Zagefka, M. Cristea   +9 more
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Collective Anti‐Mattering: Belief That One's Group Is Being Disregarded Fuels Collective Action and Authoritarian Leadership Support Among Both Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Groups are motivated not only by resources and status, but also by whether they matter to others. We introduce collective anti‐mattering, the belief that one's group does not count in the eyes of outgroups or society, and examine its emotional and political consequences.
Nassim Tabri, Isabelle Boutros, Michael J. A. Wohl   +2 more
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Striving for Significance: Development and Validation of the Desire for Significance Scale

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need for personal significance (i.e., the desire for mattering, meriting respect and ‘being someone’) is a psychogenic need that guides a variety of human behaviours studied across multiple domains of social psychology. Despite its relevance, a validated measure of stable individual differences in the motivation to satisfy the need for ...
Erica Molinario, Andrey Elster, Iwona Dudek, Katarzyna Jasko, David Webber, Ewa Szumowska, N. Pontus Leander, Maximilian Agostini, Jannis Kreienkamp, Gilda Sensales, Gabriele Di Cicco, Luis C. Jaume, Molly Ellenberg, Dylan Wollschalger, Arie W. Kruglanski   +14 more
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The Effect of Contact With Dual Identifier Friends on Interethnic Attitudes

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The intergroup contact literature has traditionally examined interactions as being between clearly defined, mutually exclusive groups. Yet in Western societies, descendants of immigrants often identify both with their (grand)parents’ ethnicity and with the national majority in the country of residence.
Tom Nijs, Tobias H. Stark
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When Social Change Feels Threatening: Multiple Pathways to Reactionary Politicized Identification and Collective Action

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efforts to recognize gender diversity have become sites of political conflict, mobilizing progressive support and reactionary resistance. Understanding this resistance requires identifying which grievances arise during social change and explaining how they correlate with reactionary politicized identities and collective action.
Julia C. Becker, Danny Osborne
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor, Nehemia Stern, Guy Nagar, Uzi Ben Shalom   +3 more
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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