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The Experience of Relationship Dissolution among British Asian Gay Men: Identity Threat and Protection
(Springer, 2014-12-09)
Relationship dissolution has generally been associated with decreased psychological well-being, but little is known about how ethnic and religious minority gay men experience and cope with relationship dissolution. This ...
Fracking on YouTube: Exploring Risks, Benefits and Human Values.
(White Horse Press, 2014-10-01)
Fracking or the extraction of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing of rock has become a contested topic, especially in the United States, where it has been deployed on a large scale, and in Europe where it is still largely ...
Social representations, identity and social relations among non-heterosexual British Asian men
(Oxford: Elsevier., 2014)
This chapter explores and compares social representations, identity and social relations among non-heterosexual British Asian Indian and British Pakistani men. After an overview of two relevant theories from social psychology ...
Values and identity process theory: Theoretical integration and empirical interactions.
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Identity and values are important driving forces in human lives. Identity Process Theory (IPT; Breakwell, 1986, 2001b) and the Schwartz Value Theory (Schwartz, 1992) focus on distinct but related aspects of the self and ...
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism: representation, cognition and everyday talk.
(Ashgate, 2014)
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are complex, delineable, yet inter-related social-psychological phenomena. While antisemitism has been described as an irrational, age-old prejudice, anti-Zionism is often represented as a ...
Identity Process Theory : Identity, Social Action and Social Change
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
We live in an ever-changing social world, which constantly calls forth changes to our identities and actions. Advances in science, technology and medicine, political upheaval, and economic development are just some examples ...
Social Psychological Debates about Identity
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)
We live in an ever-changing social world, which constantly calls forth changes to our identities and actions. Advances in science, technology and medicine, political upheaval, and economic development are just some examples ...
Identity Integration, Psychological Coherence and Identity Threat: Linking Identity Process Theory and Notions of Integration
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-03)
The goal of the current chapter is threefold, namely: (i) to explain how individuals, in times of change, come to integrate new identities intra-individually in their sense of self and maintain a feeling of psychological ...
Fracking in the UK Press: Threat Dynamics in an Unfolding Debate
(Public Understanding of Science, 2014)
Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing,
or “fracking.” This article examines the the socio-political dimension of fracking as
manifested in the UK press at three key ...
Human Responses to Climate Change: Social Representation, Identity and Socio-Psychological Action.
(Environmental Communication, 2014)
Climate change is one of the most important global challenges in the twenty-first century, given that a changing climate is likely to have negative and potentially irreversible consequences for the environment and human ...
