Frank Eckerle, Carmen S. Lienen, J. Christopher Cohrs
{"title":"‘A learning process that never ends’: How advantaged social justice activists negotiate privilege and activism within their identity","authors":"Frank Eckerle, Carmen S. Lienen, J. Christopher Cohrs","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70077","url":null,"abstract":"Research shows that critically reflecting on ingroup privilege can motivate allyship. However, we lack a deeper understanding of how activists make sense of their privilege, how it contributes to their motivation to stay engaged, and how activism recursively affects the meaning‐making of social privilege. Building on social representations and identity process theory, we explored the social representation of privilege among allies and the identity processes involved in reconciling with ingroup privilege. We conducted 15 semi‐structured interviews with advantaged social justice activists (i.e., activists who are working in organizations to improve conditions for disadvantaged and oppressed groups). Applying thematic network analysis, we found convergent social representations of privilege but varying representations of its (systemic) roots, three types of identity threat elicited by privilege ( <jats:italic>morality, positionality</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>social threat</jats:italic> ) and four ways in which privilege relates to activism ( <jats:italic>privilege enables action, privilege is a responsibility to act, quest for meaning</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>relativizing the role of privilege for activism</jats:italic> ). A key insight concerns the prominent role of the coherence motive, which seems to help (re‐)conceptualizing privilege threat(s) in a way that motivates dismantling systems of inequality. We discuss the need for further theorizing on the bidirectional link between allyship and privilege reflection.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147598057","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":"'None of us are free until all of us are free': Introducing collective liberation as a praxis-oriented framework and concept into social psychology.","authors":"Julia A Schreiber,Yara Zebian,Mete S Uysal","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70071","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen a resurgence of protest and resistance movements worldwide, reminding deep interconnections between struggles for liberation beyond borders, histories and identities. While activists frequently frame these efforts through the lens of collective liberation, this lens remains absent from mainstream social psychology. In this article, we introduce collective liberation as a framework, concept and practice for social psychology. We critically examine the epistemological, methodological and conceptual constraints that have obscured it, and turn to activist expressions and theorizing to articulate three core components central to collective liberation: interlocked systems of oppression, interdependency of individuals and their freedoms, and shared responsibility for their liberation. We situate collective liberation alongside, yet distinct from, existing research constructs in collective action, resistance, allyship and solidarity, blurring the lines between allyship and resistance. Finally, we propose a research agenda that integrates collective liberation into social psychological theory and practice, offering new avenues for studying sustained activism and resistance, cross-movement solidarity and the psychological processes that support long-term social change.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"21 1","pages":"e70071"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147583842","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":"Understanding stigma consciousness: A multilevel analysis across diverse stigmatized groups.","authors":"Joelle-Cathrin Flöther,Juliane Degner","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70072","url":null,"abstract":"Members of stigmatized groups differ in how they perceive, reflect on and cope with their stigmatized group status. One potential variable explaining these differences is stigma consciousness: the extent to which individuals expect to be stigmatized based on their group membership (Pinel, J. Pers. Soc. Psychol., 76, 1999, 114). However, theorizing and research on predictors of interindividual and between-group variance in stigma consciousness are limited so far. The present research systematically investigated several variables potentially contributing to differences in stigma consciousness at the individual, stigma, and group levels. Multilevel regression modelling using data collected from N = 3969 members of 18 different stigmatized groups revealed that stigma consciousness varies primarily between individuals and less between groups and is largely predicted by individual-level factors, including discrimination experiences, ingroup identification and ideological beliefs. Our findings help to refine the conceptualization of stigma consciousness as an individual psychological characteristic, shaped primarily by individual perceptions and experiences rather than group memberships. Future research directions are discussed, highlighting further individual-level predictors as well as outcomes of stigma consciousness.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"59 1","pages":"e70072"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147502349","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":"Concern for future generations predicts costly present-day prosociality and extraordinary altruism: A case study of organ donorship.","authors":"Grace Bauer, Kyle Fiore Law, Liane Young, Paige Amormino, Abigail Marsh, Brendan Bo O'Connor, Stylianos Syropoulos","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70070","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Are concerns for future generations and present-day prosociality at odds? Across three studies, we test the common assumption of a tradeoff between future-oriented concern and immediate helping behaviour. Drawing on theories of moral expansiveness, we examine whether individuals who report greater concern for the far future (as measured by 'intergenerational concern' and 'impartial intergenerational beneficence') are also more likely to engage in or express interest in organ donation, a costly and urgent form of present-day prosociality. In Study 1 (a large-scale survey), Study 2 (a pre-registered experiment) and Study 3 (a comparison of living organ donors, often termed 'extraordinary altruists', with demographically similar controls), concern for future generations predicts donor status, comfort discussing donation and intentions to register. These findings extend psychological theory on prosocial concern across time and provide initial evidence for a novel, theoretically grounded pathway by which future-oriented concern may strengthen rather than compete with present-day prosociality and altruism.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 2","pages":"e70070"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147481942","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}
Sumedh Rao,Pier-Luc Dupont,David Manley,Laura K Taylor,Shelley McKeown
{"title":"The habitual, spatial and temporal conditions of everyday youth intergroup contact in an ethnically diverse city.","authors":"Sumedh Rao,Pier-Luc Dupont,David Manley,Laura K Taylor,Shelley McKeown","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70075","url":null,"abstract":"There is substantial evidence that positive intergroup contact can reduce prejudice. Most everyday interactions, however, are not deliberately structured to be positive, and individuals do not always engage in intergroup contact even when there is opportunity. The present research adopts a qualitative approach to understand how youth negotiate everyday contact with outgroup friends and acquaintances in the ethnically diverse city of Bradford, England. We explore how youth intergroup interactions manifest in everyday life, how urban spaces facilitate or inhibit them, and the psychological processes involved. A total of 33 youth aged 16-18 (16 Asian, 14 White, 1 Black, 1 Arab, 1 mixed race) took part in a photography project and focus group sessions, and nine of those youth (4 Asian, 3 White, 1 Black, 1 Arab) took part in follow-up walking interviews. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings demonstrated the habitual nature of everyday intergroup contact and the complex negotiations youth engage in to socialise with outgroup friends. They also highlight how space perceptions influence the maintenance of cross-ethnic friendships and are shaped by past experiences and memories. Our research has implications for understanding everyday unstructured interactions and the spatial and temporal factors that influence youth intergroup contact.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"277 1","pages":"e70075"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147619517","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}
Darja Wischerath, Olivia Brown, Lukasz Piwek, Brittany I Davidson
{"title":"Indirect mobilisation and violence legitimation through influencers on alternative platforms.","authors":"Darja Wischerath, Olivia Brown, Lukasz Piwek, Brittany I Davidson","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70079","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjso.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Existing mobilisation literature has largely focused on groups and collective sensemaking processes as the primary drivers of collective action. However, online influencers have emerged as key leaders and mobilisers, which can shape collective action through one-to-many communication. Using self-categorisation theory, we examine indirect mobilisation and the legitimation of violence during the August 2024 UK riots through a case study of a far-right influencer's Telegram channel. The dataset consists of 230 posts and 156 pieces of multimedia content from the Tommy Robinson News Telegram channel from 29th July to 7th August 2024. We employed an abductive thematic analysis approach, revealing how throughout the progression of the riots, posts in the Telegram channel construct group identities, establish epistemic authority and leadership legitimacy, and legitimise violence. Our findings extend the social identity approach of mobilisation into the digital realm, revealing how broadcast-style, unidirectional affordances of Telegram channels can impact the dynamics of leadership, identity construction and mobilisation of (violent) collective action.</p>","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"65 2","pages":"e70079"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13049234/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147616813","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":"To be or not to be (a prisoner): Social identification as cure and curse via self-stigma and social exclusion.","authors":"Teresa Traversa,Aoife-Marie Foran,Marco Marinucci,Luca Pancani,Paolo Riva,Jolanda Jetten","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70082","url":null,"abstract":"Research on social identification in marginalized populations has documented both social cure and social curse effects, suggesting that distinct identification dimensions may underlie opposite outcomes. This study integrated the Social Identity Approach to Health with stigma and social exclusion research to explore a dual pathway in which ingroup ties and identity centrality are respectively associated with greater or lower well-being among prisoners through their links with self-stigma and perceived social exclusion. A path analysis was conducted with a sample of 160 prisoners. Findings suggest that belonging and connectedness derived from identifying with fellow prisoners (i.e., ingroup ties) are associated with reduced psychological distress via lower perceived exclusion. In a context characterized by disconnection, social identification may provide a form of reconnection that supports well-being. Conversely, the personal importance attributed to the prisoner identity (i.e., identity centrality) was associated with greater self-stigma and perceived exclusion, with the latter mediating its negative association with well-being. Within a highly stigmatized group, the centrality of group identity may amplify feelings of exclusion, undermining well-being. Overall, the study advances understanding of the dual effects of social identification in marginalized groups and underscores the value of applying established psychosocial frameworks to hard-to-reach populations.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"47 1","pages":"e70082"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147663729","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 differential effects of identification modes on suggestion-making behaviour.","authors":"Andrey Elster,Lilach Sagiv,Sonia Roccas","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70069","url":null,"abstract":"Sharing ideas and offering suggestions for group improvement, while highly beneficial for the group, can challenge its existing order, potentially creating normative conflict. Integrating this perspective with the multidimensional approach to group identification, this research examined the distinct, even opposing, effects of different identification modes on overt suggestion-making behaviour. In two field studies (n = 599 and n = 412), we hypothesized and found that the affective mode of identification (commitment) positively predicted overt suggestion-making behaviour, whereas the normative mode of identification (deference) predicted it negatively. These effects were consistent when the identification modes and suggestion-making were measured concurrently (Studies 1 and 2), and when suggestion-making was assessed again 2 years later (Study 1). The hypothesized opposing effects of the identification modes were consistent even after accounting for the enduring components of identification and suggestion-making behaviour in a model combining Studies 1 and 2, and were partially mediated by personal values (Study 1). Taken together, our findings reveal that groups seeking to foster high identification among their members should carefully consider the specific mode they aim to encourage, bearing in mind their differential implications.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"7 1","pages":"e70069"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147471755","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":"Performing populist leadership online: Discursive and multimodal construction of a shared social identity.","authors":"Jenni Jaakkola,Inari Sakki,Eemeli Hakoköngäs,Jari Martikainen","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70080","url":null,"abstract":"Populist leaders are known for engaging supporters through compelling rhetoric, sparking debate about what persuasive strategies they use to mobilize voters. While research shows that leaders creatively frame their communication, the role of social media-especially its multimodal affordances-remains poorly understood. This study applies multimodal critical discursive psychology (MCDP) to examine the modalities used in TikTok videos of Finnish right-wing populist politician Sebastian Tynkkynen. Using the integrative social identity model of populist leadership (ISIMPL), we identified eight discursive and multimodal strategies, through which Tynkkynen performs populistic identity leadership and constructs a shared identity: 'performing populist prototypicality' by emphasizing authenticity and ordinariness, 'performing as the voice of the people' through heroism and self-sacrifice, 'mobilizing a populist \"us\"' through in-group celebration and shared victimhood, and 'othering the elite as \"them\"' through blame and ridicule. These are accomplished through various discursive and multimodal resources, with co-contextualization of elements playing a crucial role in creating an overall message. This study shows how multimodal communication enables populist politicians to innovatively perform leadership and construct shared identities online, enhancing understanding of the discursive and multimodal construction of populist identity leadership.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"276 1","pages":"e70080"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147625511","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}
Yuang Cheng,Tegan Cruwys,Alysia M Robertson,Mark Stevens,S Alexander Haslam
{"title":"The Siren's call: How social media influencers are using identity leadership to shape diagnostic label identification and self-care intentions.","authors":"Yuang Cheng,Tegan Cruwys,Alysia M Robertson,Mark Stevens,S Alexander Haslam","doi":"10.1111/bjso.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70078","url":null,"abstract":"As social media becomes a central source of mental health information, there is growing concern that influencers can lead people to interpret everyday experiences as symptoms of mental ill health. Across two experimental studies that utilized distinct media formats, we examined how, by creating, representing, advancing and embedding a shared sense of 'us' (i.e. engaging in identity leadership), influencers' ADHD-related content shapes perceptions of self, symptoms and behavioural intentions. In Study 1 (N = 289 men) authentic video stimuli demonstrating high- versus low-identity leadership were extracted from TikTok, whilst in Study 2 (N = 259 men) tightly controlled text posts were used. Across both studies, identity leadership was associated with greater identification as ADHDers, help-seeking attitudes and self-care intentions. Planned comparisons in Study 1 provided some evidence that high-identity-leadership content increased participants' identification as ADHDers. In Study 2, identity leadership was particularly important for mental health professional influencers (compared to lay influencers) in promoting self-care intentions. These findings suggest that influencers can use identity leadership to meaningfully influence both people's understanding and response to mental health content.","PeriodicalId":48304,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Social Psychology","volume":"46 1","pages":"e70078"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147619516","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}