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Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Collective Violence

open access: yesAggressive Behavior, Volume 52, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Although collective violence remains a pervasive issue affecting many societies today, the specific psychological mechanisms underlying individual differences in support for collective violence are relatively understudied. In four studies, using five samples from Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey (total N = 3758), we conceptualize and develop a new ...
Ramzi Abou‐Ismail   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Effectiveness of Social Truth Queries to Address Online Misinformation in a Polarized Context

open access: yesApplied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Social truth queries (STQs)—user replies that draw attention to the truth—have shown promise for reducing misinformation belief, but their effectiveness in polarized contexts remains unexplored. To address this gap, we conducted three experiments using fans of established sports team rivalries to manipulate group identity.
Amabel Y. Jeon, Madeline Jalbert
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity and Social Cohesion [PDF]

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In the last few years there has been a growing tendency on the part of some social sciences researchers to adopt a broad definition of diversity (including, for instance, not only cultural values, but also gender, age, socio-economic status, and sexual ...
Pagani, Camilla
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Experimental Evidence for the Secondary Transfer Effect: An Investigation of Direct and Vicarious Contact in the Laboratory

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Positive intergroup contact promotes positive outgroup attitudes (primary transfer effect; PTE), and these primary outgroup attitudes can generalise to other outgroups (the secondary transfer effect; STE). However, experimental evidence demonstrating the STE is rare.
Hermann Swart   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘I Don't Care, So I Don't Participate’: Exploring the Role of Empathic Concern and Prosociality in the Relationship Between System Justification and Collective Action Intentions

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent years, researchers have investigated the relationship between the tendency to justify the system and the collective action intentions; in particular, justifying the status quo has a detrimental effect on the intentions to undertake progressive collective action.
Matteo Bonora   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Battling ingroup bias with effective intergroup leadership. [PDF]

open access: yesBr J Soc Psychol, 2021
Kershaw C   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 constituted the biggest wave of disorder in the country for more than a decade. These were followed by swift policy responses, based on assumptions about the events and the participants, before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out.
John Drury   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Late Adolescents' Cyber‐Upstanding Intentions Towards Bias‐Based Cyberbullying of Immigrants in the UK: Exploring the Importance of Intergroup Contact

open access: yesJournal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Immigrant youth have been found to be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of cyberbullying. Cyber‐upstanders have been highlighted with the potential to tackle bias‐based bullying, such as immigrant cyberbullying; thus, it is crucial to understand its predictors.
Nicola Abbott   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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