International support for the Arab uprisings: Understanding sympathetic collective action using theories of social dominance and social identity

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Diversity in Unity: Perspectives from Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

“…Several empirical studies that are in line with our findings explain that when performing collective action, the emotion felt by an individual is the group's emotion as a response to the situation experienced by their group, especially anger (Shepherd et al, 2013;Shi et al, 2014; Stewart et al, 2015;van Zomeren et al, 2011). Other studies found that outgroup-directed emotion plays a more important role in future protesting behaviour .…”

“…Many studies have proved that group-based anger is a predictor of collective action (Shepherd et al, 2013;Shi et al, 2014;Stewart et al, 2015;van Zomeren et al, 2011). This evidence is relevant for collective action in general, not only for normative action.…”

When lack of control enhances closeness to others: The case of unemployment and economic threat

“…Previous research examined various aspects of intergroup proximity, such as solidarity or helping, but mainly focused on a relationship in which a more powerful or higherstatus group supported the powerless outgroup (Saab, Tausch, Spears, & Cheung, 2014;Stewart et al, 2016). Previous research examined various aspects of intergroup proximity, such as solidarity or helping, but mainly focused on a relationship in which a more powerful or higherstatus group supported the powerless outgroup (Saab, Tausch, Spears, & Cheung, 2014;Stewart et al, 2016).…”

The power of nonviolence: Confirming and explaining the success of nonviolent (rather than violent) political movements

“…Specifically, our studies examined to what extent people who belong to third-party groups support a movement depending on whether the movement uses violent or nonviolent strategies, and whether this support is driven by people's perceptions of the movement's members as moral agents sensitive to experiencing pain and suffering when harmed by opposing groups (i.e., by people's attribution of mental capacity to, and perceived morality of, the movement). This support can take many forms: transformation of a neutral third party into a sympathetic one (Oegema & Klandermans, 1994;Simon & Klandermans, 2001), transformation of a sympathetic person into an engaging member of the movement (Oegema & Klandermans, 1994;Van Stekelenburg & Klandermans, 2013), encouragement of regime supporters to stand by or even defect (Nepstad, 2013), encouragement of third parties that support the regime to withdraw their support (Stewart et al, 2015), or encouragement of third parties to help the cause of the movement (Stewart et al, 2015). to succeed.…”