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“System change, not climate change”: Effective environmental policies and state repression moderate the relationship between psychological predictors and environmental collective action (2024)
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Vestergren, S., Sefa Uysal, M., Varela, M., & Lindner, C. (2024). “System change, not climate change”: Effective environmental policies and state repression moderate the relationship between psychological predictors and environmental collective action. Global Environmental Psychology, 2, https://doi.org/10.5964/gep.11259

Social psychological research on environmental collective action often overlooks the facilitating or hindering impact of a country's context. Governments' institutional attitudes toward environmental issues may have crucial roles in mobilizing enviro... Read More about “System change, not climate change”: Effective environmental policies and state repression moderate the relationship between psychological predictors and environmental collective action.

Predictors of Compliance with COVID-19 Guidelines Across Countries: The role of social norms, moral values, trust, stress, and demographic factors (2023)
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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)
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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.

Towards a 'liveable future' with Psychology (2023)
Digital Artefact
Bowe, M., & Vestergren, S. (2023). Towards a 'liveable future' with Psychology. [Blog/Magazine style article]

‘All together now’: Facilitators and barriers to engagement in mutual aid during the first UK COVID-19 lockdown (2023)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Parents’ concerns and understandings around excessive infant crying: qualitative study of discussions in online forums (2022)
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Ghio, D., Muller, I., Vestergren, S., Mandangu, C., Dennison, L., Sykes, K., …Santer, M. (2022). Parents’ concerns and understandings around excessive infant crying: qualitative study of discussions in online forums. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100146

Crying is an essential behaviour in infants, occurring on a continuum, and only rarely indicates serious underlying diagnosis. Searching online for information about excessive crying has become common, using the internet to seek health information an... Read More about Parents’ concerns and understandings around excessive infant crying: qualitative study of discussions in online forums.

Validity testing of the conspiratorial thinking and anti-expert sentiment scales during the COVID-19 pandemic across 24 languages from a large-scale global dataset (2022)
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Han, H., M. Blackburn, A., Jeftić, A., Phuong Tran, T., Stöckli, S., Reifler, J., & Vestergren, S. (2022). Validity testing of the conspiratorial thinking and anti-expert sentiment scales during the COVID-19 pandemic across 24 languages from a large-scale global dataset. Epidemiology and Infection, 150, Article e167. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268822001443

In this study, we tested the validity across two scales addressing conspiratorial thinking that may influence behaviors related to public health and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using the COVIDiSTRESSII Global Survey data from 12,261 participants, we valid... Read More about Validity testing of the conspiratorial thinking and anti-expert sentiment scales during the COVID-19 pandemic across 24 languages from a large-scale global dataset.

Do disasters trigger protests? A conceptual view of the connection between disasters, injustice, and protests – the case of COVID-19 (2022)
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Vestergren, S., Uysal, M. S., & Tekin, S. (2022). Do disasters trigger protests? A conceptual view of the connection between disasters, injustice, and protests – the case of COVID-19. Frontiers in Political Science, 4, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.836420

People around the globe are affected by disasters far beyond the disaster properties. Given that certain social groups are affected disproportionately, disasters need to be considered as political events which may cause political actions. Therefore,... Read More about Do disasters trigger protests? A conceptual view of the connection between disasters, injustice, and protests – the case of COVID-19.

COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Vestergren, & Cakal. (2022). COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01383-6

During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later, we extended this line of research by launching a new... Read More about COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Beyond the Choice of What You Put in Your Mouth: A Systematic Mapping Review of Veganism and Vegan Identity (2022)
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Vestergren, S., & Uysal, M. S. (2022). Beyond the Choice of What You Put in Your Mouth: A Systematic Mapping Review of Veganism and Vegan Identity. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.848434

In recent years, and in the current climate crisis, the interest in veganism and sustainable diet/lifestyle has increased. This growing interest can also be seen within academia. Therefore, we set out to systematically document and organize the socia... Read More about Beyond the Choice of What You Put in Your Mouth: A Systematic Mapping Review of Veganism and Vegan Identity.

Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership (2022)
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Haslam, S. A., Reicher, S. D., Selvanathan, H. P., Gaffney, A. M., Steffens, N. K., Packer, D., …Platow, M. J. (2023). Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership. Leadership Quarterly, 34(2), Article ARTN 101622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101622

This paper develops a dual-agency model of leadership which treats collective phenomena as a co-production between leaders and followers. The model integrates work on identity leadership and engaged followership derived from the social identity tradi... Read More about Examining the role of Donald Trump and his supporters in the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol: A dual-agency model of identity leadership and engaged followership.

Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
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Vestergren, S., & Stott, C. (2022). Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. PloS one, 17(2), Article e0264618. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264618

Shopping behaviour in response to extreme events is often characterized as "panic buying" which connotes irrationality and loss of control. However, "panic buying" has been criticized for attributing shopping behaviour to people's alleged psychologic... Read More about Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here’s why we need climate protests: even if some think they’re annoying (2021)
Digital Artefact
Vestergren, S., Finnerty, S., & Gülsüm Acar, Y. (2021). Here’s why we need climate protests: even if some think they’re annoying. [Blog Style Article]

COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Blackburn, A. M., & Vestergren, S. (2021). COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/428pz

During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later, we extended this line of research by launching a new... Read More about COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey (2021)
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Lieberoth, A., Lin, S., Stockli, S., Han, H., Kowal, M., Gelpi, R., …Koszalkowska, K. (2021). Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey. Royal Society Open Science, 8(2), Article ARTN 200589. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200589

The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psyc... Read More about Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries in the COVIDiSTRESS global survey.

COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey dataset on psychological and behavioural consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak (2021)
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Yamada, Y., Ćepulić, D., Coll-Martín, T., Debove, S., Gautreau, G., Han, H., …Lieberoth, A. (2021). COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey dataset on psychological and behavioural consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Scientific Data, 8(1), Article ARTN 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00784-9

This N=173,426 social science dataset was collected through the collaborative COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey – an open science effort to improve understanding of the human experiences of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic between 30th March and 30th May, 2020. T... Read More about COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey dataset on psychological and behavioural consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Inequalities and identity processes in crises: Recommendations for facilitating safe response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
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Templeton, A., Tekin Guven, S., Hoerst, C., Vestergren, S., Davidson, L., Ballentyne, S., …Choudhury, S. (2020). Inequalities and identity processes in crises: Recommendations for facilitating safe response to the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59(3), 674 - 685. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12400

Structural inequalities and identity processes are pivotal to understanding public response to COVID-19. We discuss how identity processes can be used to promote community-level support, safe normative behaviour, and increase compliance with guidance... Read More about Inequalities and identity processes in crises: Recommendations for facilitating safe response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

How participation in collective action changes relationships, behaviours, and beliefs: An interview study of the role of inter- and intragroup processes (2019)
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Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2019). How participation in collective action changes relationships, behaviours, and beliefs: An interview study of the role of inter- and intragroup processes. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 76-99. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.903

Research has shown that numerous psychological changes can occur in and through collective action. Previous research on psychological consequences of participation in collective action has mainly focused on one change at a time and has rarely include... Read More about How participation in collective action changes relationships, behaviours, and beliefs: An interview study of the role of inter- and intragroup processes.