The volatility of collective action: Theoretical analysis and empirical data

W Louis, E Thomas, C McGarty… - Political …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Collective action is volatile: characterized by swift, unexpected changes in intensity, target,
and forms. We conduct a detailed exploration of four reasons that these changes occur. First …

Why Chile “woke up.” Antecedents of the formation of prochange group consciousness promoting collective action

S Hechler, M Chayinska, CS Wekenborg… - Political …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In October 2019, student protests in Chile quickly expanded into a mobilization of more than
three million citizens, who protested for nearly a year and successfully brought about …

National identity and beliefs about historical linguicide are associated with support for exclusive language policies among the Ukrainian linguistic majority

M Chayinska, A Kende… - Group Processes & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined the idea that endorsement of state-level restrictive language policies can be
understood as an ingroup-preserving behaviour driven by majority group members' …

Formation of an emergent protestor identity: Applying the EMSICA to the Gezi Park protests

MS Uysal, SA Akfırat - Group Processes & Intergroup …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research on collective action indicates the importance of dynamic and culturally
diverse perspectives. One of these models, the encapsulated model of social identity in …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization is the psychological foundation of collective engagement

LGE Smith, EF Thomas, AM Bliuc… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The term polarization is used to describe both the division of a society into opposing groups
(political polarization), and a social psychological phenomenon (group polarization) …

Advancing the social psychology of rapid societal change

LGE Smith, AG Livingstone… - British Journal of Social …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this introduction to the special section on rapid societal change, we highlight the
challenges posed by rapid societal changes for social psychology and introduce the seven …

Social identification and collective action participation in the internet age: A meta-analysis

S Akfırat, MS Uysal, F Bayrak… - Cyberpsychology …, 2021 - acikerisim.medipol.edu.tr
Since the digitally-mediated large-scale protests took place all over the world, the role of
social identities in collective actions has become the center of academic attention. Some …

'Coming together to awaken our democracy': Examining precursors of emergent social identity and collective action among activists and non-activists in the 2019-2020 …

M Pozzi, S Passini, M Chayinska, D Morselli… - Journal of Community & …, 2022 - cris.unibo.it
By integrating the insights from social identity research on collective action, this article
examines the social-psychological mechanisms behind the emergence of the 2019-20'Chile …

Effects of entitativity on strategies of individual mobility and social competition

J Li, J Dang, L Liu, Z Gu, L Huang… - Group Processes & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Group members often adopt various identity enhancement strategies to improve their
unfavorable situations and achieve a positive image. Research on identity enhancement …

The power of political déjà vu: When collective action becomes an effort to change the future by preventing the return of the past

M Chayinska, C McGarty - Political Psychology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the conditions under which political déjà vu (PDV), a perceived
analogy between past and present societal‐level traumatic events, can mobilize people to …