‘None of us are free until all of us are free’: Introducing collective liberation as a praxis-oriented framework and concept into social psychology
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Just published my first phd paper about potential differences between solidarity under less vs. more repression. In recent years, we have witnessed repression of Palestine solidarity in the Global North. Why/when might people still show up for justice despite personal cost?
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I was honored by the @psychscience.bsky.social DEI Committee's invitation to help curate this collection of outstanding articles addressing a range of issues related to anti-Black racism. I also couldn't have asked for a more thoughtful and thorough partner in @johnjost.bsky.social. Please share!
New by Glasford & Brown in JSPP, on the inequalities in academia & imagining ways out of them: "Systemic Hierarchy Within Academic Disciplines: How Resource Capital and Social Capital Stratify Academics and Form the Basis of Disciplinary Group-Based Inequality" OA: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...
Kicking off the SASP-SPSSI 2025 “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference
in Nonh Chock, Bangkok, Thailand.
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I wrote a piece for Jacobin about the misuse of antisemitism scholarship for authoritarian projects and the role German antisemitism scholarship plays in the dehumanisation of Palestinians and the justification of the genocide in Gaza.
Meeting of the International Contact Research Network in full swing today at the University of Oxford.
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Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient. My latest @theguardian.com
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Crowds & Identities and friends celebrate @daclarkecruz.bsky.social’s birthday at Eat Central @sussex.ac.uk, with @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @jaz-kane.bsky.social @monicabarnard.bsky.social @mitakshara-medhi.bsky.social @schreiber-julia.bsky.social
Paper abstract: Although much is known about why people engage in collective action participation (e.g., politicized identity, group-based anger), little is known about the psychological consequences of such participation. For example, can participation in collective action facilitate attitude moralization (e.g., moralize their attitudes on the topic)? Based on the idea that collective action contexts often involve a strong social movement fighting against an immoral adversary, we propose that participating in collective action facilitates attitude moralization over time. By integrating the moralization and collective action literatures, we hypothesized that participation in collective action moralizes individuals’ attitudes over time because it politicizes their identity, enrages them vis-a-vis the outgroup, and/or empowers them to achieve social change. We tested these hypotheses in a 2-year, five-wave longitudinal study (N = 1,214) in the contentious context of the Chilean student movement. We examined within-person (and between-person) changes over time and consistently found that participation in collective action predicted individual changes in moral conviction over time through politicized identification and group-based anger toward the outgroup. Furthermore, moral conviction predicted participation in collective action over time—an effect consistently explained by politicized identification. These findings are the first to show that (a) participation in collective action moralizes individuals’ attitudes because it politicizes their identity and enrages them vis-a-vis the (immoral) outgroup and that (b) moralization in turn helps to better understand sustained movement participation. Theoretical implications for the literature on moralization and collective action are discussed.
Participation in collective action moralizes people’s attitudes because it politicizes their identity, enrages them, and/or empowers them to achieve social change (by @alleal.bsky.social & co)
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Trying to grasp wtf is up with Germany and its fanatical support for Israeli crimes, even on the supposed left? 😰
🎧 These podcast episodes are a good place to start
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We published this article in a special issue after a small group meeting in Ottawa - it became the most cited article in the issue with its 100th citation today. We examine why attitudes toward Syrian refugees are so negative, and how can we shift them spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Finally, something like this is out in PSPR!
Identities, ideologies, status quos... Exactly where these variables and their antecedents operate in predicting individual responses to political realities hadn't been starkly addressed in mainstream psychology until now.
See: doi.org/10.1177/1088...
Here is the starter pack of people working on the psychology of collective action, social change and resistance. DM me or reply below if you'd like to be added.
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