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Leadership, mobilization of risky behaviours and accountability: The Church of Greece leaders' public talk during the COVID-19 pandemic
We present a discursive analysis of 17 interviews with leaders of the CoG given in Greek media channels, exploring how they construct participation in the ritual. When Church leaders urged their audiences to engage in risky practices, they assumed various social identity positions (e.g. scientifically informed; civic minded), implicating competing ideological frameworks. They also managed their personal and institutional accountability for potential viral transmissions by placing responsibility for adverse effects on their followers. Implications for social psychological theory are discussed.PMID:37255373 | DOI:10.1111/bjs...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - May 31, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Evangelos Ntontis Nikos Bozatzis Vasiliki Kokkini Source Type: research

On the lowest rung of the ladder: How social exclusion, perceived economic inequality and stigma increase homeless people's resignation
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 May 29. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12657. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDespite the relevance of social exclusion and economic inequality for homelessness, empirical studies investigating how these issues relate to homeless people's psychological well-being are scarce. We aimed to fill this gap by conducting two quasi-experimental studies on homeless and non-homeless groups. The first study (N = 200) showed that homeless (vs. non-homeless) people presented higher levels of resignation, characterized by depression, alienation, helplessness, and unworthiness (Williams, 2009). The second study (N = 183) replicat...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - May 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marco Marinucci Paolo Riva Michela Lenzi Camilla Lasagna Daniel Waldeck Ian Tyndall Chiara Volpato Source Type: research

'All of a sudden for no reason they've been displaced': Constructing the 'contingent refugee' in early media reports on the Ukrainian refugees
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 May 25. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12652. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper analyzes descriptions of Ukrainian refugees in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Findings of previous research on news media descriptions of refugees point to problematic descriptions of refugees that downgrade their deservingness of refuge and treat refugee status as an inherent feature of fleeing individuals instead of as contingent on external circumstances. However, there is a widespread perception that Ukrainian refugees are being reported on in a more positive light. We therefore examine how news media des...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - May 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rahul Sambaraju Natasha Shrikant Source Type: research

Conspiracy believers claim to be free thinkers but (Under)Use advice like everyone else
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 May 26. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12655. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTConspiracy believers often claim to be critical thinkers their 'own research' instead of relying on others' testimony. In two preregistered behavioural studies conducted in the United Kingdom and Pakistan (Nparticipants = 864, Ntrials = 5408), we test whether conspiracy believers have a general tendency to discount social information (in favour of their own opinions and intuitions). We found that conspiracy mentality is not associated with social information use in text-based (Study 1) and image-based (Study 2) advice-taking tasks. Yet, w...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - May 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sacha Altay Kenzo Nera Waqas Ejaz C éline Schöpfer Fr édéric Tomas Source Type: research

A cognitive balance approach to understanding intergroup attitudes in post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 May 26. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12656. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCognitive balance theory posits that a drive for cognitively consistent thoughts modulates interpersonal relations. We extended cognitive balance theory to intergroup relations and tested it in a real-life setting where intergroup relations are under strain: Northern Ireland in the wake of the UK's withdrawal from the EU. We predicted that when the groups of Irish people and British people in Northern Ireland are perceived as more compatible, intergroup bias would be lower than when groups are perceived as less compatible. We collected da...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - May 26, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jack Loughnane Jenny Roth Wijnand van Tilburg Source Type: research