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Inequalities and identity processes in crises: Recommendations for facilitating safe response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign (2018)
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Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2018). How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57(4), 855-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12270

Previous research on collective action has suggested that both intra- and intergroup interactions are important in producing psychological change. In this study, we examine how these two forms of interaction relate to each other over time. We present... Read More about How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign.

The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology (2016)
Journal Article
Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2016). The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology. Social Movement Studies, 16(2), 203 - 221. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2016.1252665

Most research on activist participation has aimed to explain motives to engage in protest and collective action or becoming an activist. The outcomes, for the individual, have been neglected. Therefore, we set out to systematically document and organ... Read More about The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology.

From isolation and dependence to autonomy – expectations before and experiences after cochlear implantation in adult cochlear implant users and their significant others (2014)
Journal Article
Mäki-Torkko, E. M., Vestergren, S., Harder, H., & Lyxell, B. (2015). From isolation and dependence to autonomy – expectations before and experiences after cochlear implantation in adult cochlear implant users and their significant others. Disability and Rehabilitation, 37(6), 541-547. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2014.935490

The aim of the study was to examine pre-operative expectations and the post-operative experiences related to cochlear implants (CI) in CI-users and their significant others.