A5054162098- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Social Media and Politics
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Disaster Response and Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
- Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics
- Social Representations and Identity
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
- Resilience and Mental Health
University of O'Higgins
2020-2025
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
2022
University of Sussex
2016-2019
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2015
Social support and an emerging sense of community are common in flooding, but postflood group dynamics have not been fully addressed. In the context a flooded community, we explore how social identification with one's emerges affects well-being, collective efficacy, support. Results from quantitative survey show that was positively associated fate, well-being through residents' expectations shared goals. Importantly, disaster exposure interacted: For residents, observing providing regardless...
Abstract Across the latter half of 2019, Hong Kong became focus world attention as it was rocked by a wave increasingly violent confrontations between police and protesters. Both inside outside Territory, several powerful political actors have argued that paramilitary-style interventions used to manage protests were necessary because disorder being fermented agitators. In contrast, this article explores utility Elaborated Social Identity Model crowd behaviour help explore explain some social...
Abstract The impacts of extreme events can intersect with pre‐disaster systemic inequalities and deficiencies, exacerbating distress. This paper contributes to the existing literature by exploring psychosocial processes through which stressors become traumatic during an event. It does so focusing on how mothers children and/or adolescents in United Kingdom experienced COVID‐19 pandemic. First, qualitative interviews ( N = 15) showed that participants a cluster stemming from their workplaces,...
Loneliness has been defined as an aversive response to the discrepancy between desired andachieved social contact, which is associated with various physical and mental health problems.During COVID-19 pandemic, perception of loneliness increased globally, a context inwhich use online games emerged tool mitigate among users.This study (N = 302) aimed identify social-psychological factors that would impact theperception Chilean gamers in post-pandemic context. Findingssuggest might be related...
Shopping behaviour in response to extreme events is often characterized as “panic buying” which connotes irrationality and loss of control. However, has been criticized for attributing shopping people’s alleged psychological frailty while ignoring other structural factors that might be at play. We report a qualitative exploration the experiences understandings members public onset COVID-19 pandemic. Through thematic analysis semi-structured interviews with 23 participants, we developed three...
This article tests a longitudinal model of the antecedents and consequences changes in identification with indigenous (Mapuche) among nonindigenous youth Chilean school contexts over 6‐month period (633 270 Mapuche students, M ages = 12.47 12.80 years, respectively). Results revealed that in‐group norms supporting contact quality intergroup at Time 1 predicted student's 2, which turn support for adoption culture maintenance 2; some relationships between these variables were found to be...
In recent years, multiple social movements have emerged around the world. addition, public surveys indicate highest recorded levels of support for protest. this context acceptance collective action, we examine role nonactivists in perceived legitimacy movements, as “passive” can contribute to change. Given that antecedents been neglected literature, carried out a survey ( N = 605) among general sample population Chile shed light on issue. We found identification with and instability...
The current study explores different routes to civic involvement by identifying how a context-specific dimension of empathy and beliefs autonomy dependency might jointly predict types giving behaviors (i.e., monetary donations), which in turn should engagement. sample consisted 1,294 participants (656 females) between the ages 18 64 (Mage = 38.44, SD 14.71), randomly selected from seven cities Chile. Even after controlling for gender, age, socioeconomic status participants, results mainly...
Sociological and Political Science research has argued that political conditions affect both the occurrence of protests actions protesters choose. However, an approach considers people’s perceptions on these is still absent in social psychological literature. Subjective Openness (SPO) a new construct which fills this gap by incorporating features context into analysis protests. We propose SPO comprises relating to three dimensions: government allow/restrict protests, police measures actively...
One of the most controversial issues related to protests is use violence by protesters. Although there a strong social norm against protest violence, research has suggested that protesters’ endorsement non-violent actions can change according legitimacy police during protests. However, both non-participants’ support for and its relationship with authorities’ measures regarding have barely been studied. To address this, we interviewed 17 British undergraduate students diverse previous...
Objectives Citizen complaints are considered by policing researchers as an indicator of police misconduct, and a proxy police-community relations. Nevertheless, US EU-based studies tend to focus on sustained reported official agencies officer-based correlates. Using the case Carabineros, Chilean militarized force, this study examines (a) latent topics contained in large set against digital platform, (b) change those across time (c) complainants’ educational level. Methods We use novel...
Previous social-psychological research has neglected the impact of public opinion’s legitimisation protests on non-participants’ support for protesters’ self-defence actions. In two experiments, involving English adults as participants, we combined vignettes describing various extents opinion with footage police repression during a student protest in England (Study 1; N = 151), and against pro-independence demonstrators Catalonia 2; 150). Results demonstrated that solidarity protesters...
The impacts of extreme events and the distress they cause can be exacerbated by systemic inequalities. Dominant frameworks in disaster research focus either on effects social determinants health or prevalence mental disorders. We argue that a psychological lens overcome limitations existing mapping microprocesses through which proliferates within particular environments during events. To illustrate our point, we focused mothers with young children UK COVID-19 pandemic. First, qualitative...
Shopping behaviour in response to extreme events is often characterized as “panic buying” which connotes irrationality and loss of control. However, has been criticized for attributing shopping people’s alleged psychological frailty while ignoring other structural factors that might be at play. We report a qualitative exploration the experiences understandings members public onset COVID-19 pandemic. Through thematic analysis semi-structured interviews with 23 participants we developed three...