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Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors (2023)
Journal Article
Blackburn, A. M., Han, H., Jeftić, A., Stöckli, S., Gelpí, R., Acosta-Ortiz, A. M., …Vestergren, S. (2023). Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05281-x

Despite the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it provided the opportunity to investigate factors associated with compliance with public health measures that could inform responses to future pandemics. We analysed crosscountry data (k = 12... Read More about Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors.

The Dynamic Context of Transformations through Crowds and Collective Action (2023)
Journal Article
Vestergren, S., & Acar, Y. G. (2023). The Dynamic Context of Transformations through Crowds and Collective Action. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 90(2), 271-292. https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2023.a901705

Historically, social psychologists have conceptualized the crowd and its members as mindless and irrational. More recent research has emphasized the crowd as an agentic space that offers both emergence and endurance of psychological transformations,... Read More about The Dynamic Context of Transformations through Crowds and Collective Action.

‘All together now’: Facilitators and barriers to engagement in mutual aid during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown (2023)
Journal Article
Cocking, C., Vestergren, S., Ntontis, E., & Luzynska, K. (2023). ‘All together now’: Facilitators and barriers to engagement in mutual aid during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown. PloS one, 18(4), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283080

Despite undeniable hardship, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic also saw an outpour of community solidarity and mutual aid towards those in need. This study explored why people participated in mutual aid during the pandemic as well as the factors tha... Read More about ‘All together now’: Facilitators and barriers to engagement in mutual aid during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown.

The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Ntontis, E., Blackburn, A. M., Han, H., Stöckli, S., Milfont, T. L., Tuominen, J., …Vestergren, S. (2023). The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 88, Article 102007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102007

Primary stressors are direct outcomes of extreme events (e.g., viruses, floodwater) whereas secondary stressors stem from pre-disaster life circumstances and societal arrangements (e.g., illness, problematic pre-disaster policies) or from inefficient... Read More about The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mediation Analysis of Conspiratorial Thinking and Anti-Expert Sentiments on Vaccine Willingness (2023)
Journal Article
Blackburn, A. M., Han, H., Gelpí, R. A., Stöckli, S., Jeftić, A., Ch’ng, B., …Vestergren, S. (2023). Mediation Analysis of Conspiratorial Thinking and Anti-Expert Sentiments on Vaccine Willingness. Health Psychology, 42(4), 235-246. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001268

OBJECTIVE: Vaccines are an effective means to reduce the spread of diseases, but they are sometimes met with hesitancy that needs to be understood. METHOD: In this study, we analyzed data from a large, cross-country survey conducted between June a... Read More about Mediation Analysis of Conspiratorial Thinking and Anti-Expert Sentiments on Vaccine Willingness.