Survivors’ experiences of informal social support in coping and recovering after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing - Volume 8 Issue 4

A social vaccine comes first.

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Supporting a football club can provide a sense of belonging to fans; however, fan-club relationships are complex and under-examined within social psychology. This study used an identity leadership pe...

Contemporary mobilisations increasingly confront existing power structures while experimenting with alternative social relations – a dynamic often discussed as prefigurative politics. Yet social psychological research on collective action has prioritised explaining why people participate, paying l...

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Phil Manzanera brings the sound and spirt of Roxy Music to new imaganings of old songs

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PDF | This chapter describes the research evidence and theory for the topic of person change arising in and through participation in collective action.... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Confrontational collective actions are neither uncontrolled outbursts of initially pacifist resistance nor mere reactions to helplessness and lack of viable political options. Instead, they serve str...

On February 6, 2023, a significant earthquake struck Turkey, disproportionately impacting Syrian refugees already struggling with the lingering effects of war.

Crowd behaviour in emergencies has previously been explained in terms of either ‘mass panic’ or strength of pre-existing social bonds. The present paper reports results from a study comparing high- v...

Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.

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In early March, I warned of authoritarian like attacks on science and universities. Six weeks later and the Trump administration has gone even further than feared.

Confrontational collective actions are neither uncontrolled outbursts of initially pacifist resistance nor mere reactions to helplessness and lack of viable political options. Instead, they serve str...

Martin Gray offers his frank and unreserved views on the current feverish obsession with new vinyl reissues in multiple colours and formats.

I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

Neuroscientists in Israel find signs that the drug helped festival survivors in the attack and the aftermath.

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Recently, interest in aggregate and population-level implicit and explicit attitudes has opened inquiry into how attitudes relate to sociopolitical phenomenon. ...

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On February 6, 2023, a significant earthquake struck Turkey, disproportionately impacting Syrian refugees already struggling with the lingering effects of war.

Collective false alarms can cause significant disruption, costly emergency response, and distress. Yet an adequate psychological explanation for these incidents is lacking. We interviewed 39 particip...