{"title":"“This must really come from within”: Kurdish diasporic narratives of solidarity as resistance and existence in Belgium","authors":"canan coşkan, Laurent Licata, Judit Kende","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70090","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Migrant members of racially marginalized groups pursue their political struggle in places outside their land of origin. How would they resist racialized collective violence in the diaspora by engaging in solidarity as they acculturate to a new societal order? Combining traditional social psychological approaches of intragroup relationships with anticolonial and antiracist combative praxis, the current research examined (post)migrant Kurds' narratives of solidarity as resistance as they shared their experiences of Turkish racialized colonial violence in Belgium. We conducted a mixed methods study combining in-depth interviews with researcher participatory truth-witnessing. We interviewed 24 Kurds (2 sexual and gender minorities, 10 cisheterosexual women, 12 cisheterosexual men) about their intragroup relations and Kurdish resistance against collective violence. Reflexive thematic analysis centring around intragroup solidarity showed that participants understood and practiced solidarity as resistance and existence in several ways. In the diaspora, they navigated resistance against Turkish collective violence, transnational repression and the structural challenges of migrational acculturation through diverse, multi-sited, multi-layered and liminal intragroup solidarity despite some intragroup exclusions, with a desire for intragroup unity. Participatory truth-witnessing revealed that political organization and critical consciousness are central to intragroup solidarity beyond ethnocultural cohesion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147943258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sound of Unity: Exploring shared social identity and identity expression through collective sound-making at live sports events","authors":"Rhea Haddad, Anne Templeton","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70095","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Live sport events are often characterized by intense soundscapes marked by chanting, singing and synchronized applause. In this study, we examined in what ways collective sound-making is perceived as an expression of shared social identity at stadiums during live sports events. We focused on the Scottish Celtic Football Club whose political and religious history is central to supporter identity. We conducted semi-structured interviews (<i>N</i> = 12) about sounds produced during games, their meanings and importance to fans. Using reflexive thematic analysis, we generated two main themes: (1) collective sound production expresses a shared identity rooted in common political and religious history, (2) collective sound production reflects a shared present experience that contributes to cognitive, relational and affective transformations among individuals in the crowd. Overall, our analysis shows how social identity is constructed and celebrated through sound within a specific socio-historical context, and can be an indicator of psychological transformations in the crowd.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147943285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Umair Munir Hashmi, Wasan Khalid Ahmed, Radzuwan Ab Rashid
{"title":"Resisting collective violence: Shiite Muslims' discursive construction of solidarity in Pakistan","authors":"Umair Munir Hashmi, Wasan Khalid Ahmed, Radzuwan Ab Rashid","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70092","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines how Shiite Muslims in Pakistan construct resistance and solidarity in response to collective violence. Using discursive psychology within a constructionist social-psychological frame, it analyses 14 semi-structured interviews and 255 social media posts collected between November 2024 and January 2025. The analysis identifies discursive practices such as category entitlement, footing shifts, corroboration and extreme case formulation through which participants perform moral accountability, communal identity and defiance. Resistance emerges through ordinary discourse that reclaims voice, while solidarity is enacted through shared religious and moral language. The findings demonstrate how language operates as social practice, transforming grief into collective agency. The study advances discursive psychology by showing how discourse functions as a medium for moral repair and social reconstruction in contexts of sectarian violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147934680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Context matters for the relationship between national identity and perceived democratic quality: National pride as a blind spot","authors":"Márton Hadarics","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70084","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A growing body of evidence shows that national identity is positively related to attitudes toward societal and political systems. Yet much less is known about contextual factors that may modify this relationship. Distinguishing two facets of national identity—attachment and pride—and focusing on perceived democratic quality as a core system attitude, we test whether the links between these identity dimensions and system attitudes vary with the actual quality of democracy. Using data from 92 countries in the combined World Values Survey/European Values Study (<i>N</i> = 156,658), augmented with country-level indicators, multilevel structural equation models show that the association between national pride and perceived democratic quality is stronger in less democratic countries, whereas the effect of attachment is context-invariant. These findings suggest that national pride is associated with a positively biased perception of democratic quality that diverges from reality in illiberal or weak democracies, thereby complicating the predominantly positive framing of national pride in the social psychological literature on national identity.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13129263/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lou Dörr, Elena Ball, Pia Vogel, Claudia Niedlich, Melanie C. Steffens
{"title":"","authors":"Lou Dörr, Elena Ball, Pia Vogel, Claudia Niedlich, Melanie C. Steffens","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70081","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For many nonbinary individuals, disclosing their pronouns and preferred forms of address when applying for a job is necessary to avoid being misgendered. The request to be referred to in a gender-neutral way may trigger stereotypes and result in discrimination. Simulating recruitment scenarios, we test the effects of an applicant's request for gender-neutral address and avoidance of pronouns compared to binary-gendered alternatives. We hypothesize that applicants with a gender-neutral request would be discriminated against compared to applicants requesting binary-gendered pronouns. In a pre-registered pre-experiment with a convenience sample (<i>N</i> = 248), we found that applicants with a gender-neutral request were misgendered more often than applicants requesting binary-gendered pronouns and forms of address. No other indicators of discrimination were found, possibly due to the convenience sample. The reviewed experiment tested the hypotheses in a more diverse sample (<i>N</i> = 1275), adding openness towards nonbinary gender (ONBG) as a moderator variable and investigating spontaneous stereotype content. The findings demonstrated that applicants with a gender-neutral request were discriminated against compared to masculine-request applicants during the initial written application stage, with bias being moderated by ONBG. We discuss implications for understanding and reducing discrimination against nonbinary applicants in the work context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147754720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrey Elster, Anat Bardi, Joanne Sneddon, Lilach Sagiv, Sonia Roccas, Julie Anne Lee
{"title":"On being better than average in values","authors":"Andrey Elster, Anat Bardi, Joanne Sneddon, Lilach Sagiv, Sonia Roccas, Julie Anne Lee","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70089","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Do people feel that their personal values are better than others, even though they are happier if their values are similar to those around them? We examined the Better Than Average (BTA) effect in values in four cultures (Study 1: USA, China and Malaysia; Study 2: USA, using diverse online panel samples) and relative to either a more abstract (university) or a more concrete (department) reference group (Study 3, conducted with students in Israel). Across all samples and cultures, we found that people perceived their personally desired values as more important to the self than to others, and they perceived their less personally desired values as more important to others than to the self. Self-other comparisons favouring the self were even stronger for values that are normatively desired in society, and self-other comparisons favouring others were even stronger for values that are less normatively desired in society. We also found a relatively greater BTA effect towards a more abstract group and its positive consequences to self-esteem. This research contributes to the theoretical understanding of value perception as prone to biases, generalizability and robustness of the BTA effect, and cross-cultural psychology. We discuss important societal implications of this effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13125740/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual prejudice declined across generational cohorts and genders: A cohort sequential latent growth curve model from 2014 to 2024","authors":"Eden V. Clarke, Chris G. Sibley, Danny Osborne","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70087","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite attitudes towards the LGBTQIA+ community improving in recent years, older (vs younger) cohorts still report higher rates of sexual prejudice. To date, it is unclear if this generational difference emerges due to normative ageing or the distinct social norms in which each generation was born and raised (cohort effects). This pre-registered study clarifies the issue by utilizing cohort sequential latent growth curve modelling to examine the developmental trajectory of sexual prejudice for men and women across 11 annual waves of longitudinal panel data (<i>N</i> = 63,558). Our results reveal a period effect in which older (vs younger) cohorts and men (vs women) display higher initial mean levels of sexual prejudice. But due to shared social conditions, most cohorts experience comparable curvilinear declines in sexual prejudice across time. Collectively, our results highlight the malleability of sexual prejudice across the lifespan and demonstrate the need to examine the socio-political environment when taking a lifespan development perspective on anti-LGBTQIA+ attitudes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147754956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sharing conspiracy theories and staying in power: How leaders' false theories influence leadership perception","authors":"Shen Cao, Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Mark van Vugt","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70088","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research shows that spreading conspiracy theories impacts leaders' reputations; yet, it remains unclear how leaders are viewed when their theories are debunked. Across four studies (<i>N</i> = 1437), we explored whether conveying a conspiracy theory, regardless of its accuracy, influences followers' impressions of leader dominance, competence and warmth. Participants evaluated leaders who either incorrectly perceived (false-positive) or incorrectly misperceived (false-negative) a conspiracy about the cause of a simulated crisis. During intergroup conflict, false-positive leaders were seen as less warm, similarly competent, yet more dominant than false-negative leaders. The dominance gap grew when the consequences of overlooking a conspiracy were more severe. Conversely, in the absence of conflict, false-positive leaders were perceived as less warm and competent than false-negative leaders. These findings support an error management approach to conspiracy theories: Leaders who spread conspiracy theories, even if later debunked, are still perceived as strong leaders, particularly in conflict settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.70088","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147754955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Sterphone, Jessica Robles, Jack B. Joyce, Natalie Flint, M. J. Hill, Q. A. Ellis
{"title":"Rendering white nationalism defeasible in interaction","authors":"J. Sterphone, Jessica Robles, Jack B. Joyce, Natalie Flint, M. J. Hill, Q. A. Ellis","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70074","url":null,"abstract":"People work to present themselves as moral, reasonable or justified even when making racist or hateful comments. In this project, we identify interactional practices that accomplish support for White nationalism as part of a reasonable (or even positive) identity held by reasonable or positive actors. Using membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis, we analysed a corpus of 24 publicly‐available video recordings for explicit mentions of (or challenges to) White nationalism/supremacy. Looking for how people explain, justify, and rationalise White nationalism and, especially, White nationalist violence, we identified 16 cases of what we call White nationalist remediation. Our findings demonstrate how not only self‐avowed White nationalists but also those who do not publicly identify as such can work to protect and potentially normalise White nationalist views and actions, including violence, using the same practices. They thus (1) signal their followers, (2) present their beliefs as reasonable and defensible, and (3) ultimately normalise White nationalism.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147744137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fatih Kucur, Özge Kelebek, Melek Rabia Kapıcı, Esme Temiz
{"title":"Alcoholics anonymous and recovery in Türkiye: A qualitative study in the context of Social Identity Theory","authors":"Fatih Kucur, Özge Kelebek, Melek Rabia Kapıcı, Esme Temiz","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70083","url":null,"abstract":"Alcoholics anonymous (AA) groups play a central role in facilitating the transition from an ‘addicted’ identity to a ‘recovering’ identity; however, empirical research on how this identity transformation is socially constructed, maintained and questioned within group contexts is limited. Drawing on Social Identity Theory (SIT), this qualitative study examines how AA group dynamics shape members' sense of belonging, processes of identity reconstruction and experiences of recovery while also illuminating the vulnerabilities that may destabilize recovery identity. The study involved in‐depth interviews with 20 AA members in Istanbul who had participated in meetings for a minimum of 6 months. The data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The findings were organized into three interrelated themes: (1) AA as an in‐group: the construction of a recovery identity, (2) reinforcement of the recovery identity through social interactions and (3) vulnerabilities and threats to the recovery identity. Overall, this study demonstrates that the identity of recovery within AA is a continuous negotiation process shaped by group‐based interactions and identity threats. By highlighting the social and relational dimensions of recovery, this study extends SIT to mutual aid groups and emphasizes the central role of collective identity processes in sustaining long‐term recovery.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147648956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}