We studied what happens when police use unexpectedly indiscriminate and illegitimate force to remove peaceful protesters from a gathering
researchgate.net/publication/22…

tl;dr: participants became radicalized against the police
2.
After the police's violent eviction of protesters, participants saw themselves as similar to others fighting for justice, and as part of a wider movement:
researchgate.net/publication/25…
3.
While the violent eviction caused anger and distress, being part of a wider group was empowering and inspired further action
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…
4.
Finally, for some, repeated violence by the police and others undermined the humanistic rationale for ideological non-violence and legitimised a more pragmatic approach
researchgate.net/publication/32…

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11 Jan
I've just done 5 BBC radio interview in a row. Each one started with the question: what shall we do about all these people breaking the rules?

I said:

1. Public adherence to most of the required behaviours has been high throughout the pandemic blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/07…
2. Adherence tracks the regulations and goes up in lockdown periods

blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidentiti…
3. The latest mobility data suggest people are going out and about less than in the November lockdown:

Read 5 tweets
2 Jan
1/6
Short thread on relationship between rising infections/new variant, public behaviour, and policy announcements

tldr: Public behaviour really matters in mitigating infection spread; but it's not only behaviour that matters, since behaviour interacts with policy announcements
2/6
Public adherence to physical distancing regulations (2 metre rule) has always been high
BUT adherence has also varied by time, location, and demographic

gov.uk/government/pub…
3/6
The sharp rise in infections we are currently seeing has occurred at the same time as reductions in public adherence to physical distancing, which are associated with government announcements implying relaxation was possible.

blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidentiti…
Read 7 tweets
20 Sep 20
Self-isolation for #COVID__19 has always been a problem.

Resorting to coercion is a failure of public engagement and is a poor solution.

A thread of evidence and alternatives. 1/6

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-542219…
2/6
'Legal enforcement of self-isolation can create trade-offs by dissuading individuals from self-reporting'

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
3/6
Evidence from another type of public health emergency intervention - CBRN mass decontamination - suggests that coercion can have a backfire effect, leading to resistance not engagement

Holly Carter @EPR_HPRU @DrRichardAmlot @ProfRJWWilliams

emerald.com/insight/conten…
Read 6 tweets
15 Apr 20
1/8 What is the psychology of physical distancing?

Why might the people we care about be at greatest risk?

#COVID19
2/8

Physical distancing is antithetical to a basic self-process - the tendency to try to get closer to ingroup members.

@novelli_david shows this in the '2 chairs' experiment, with behavioural measures.

(Read on for moderators of this effect)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.134…
3/8

The findings of the '2 chairs' study have been replicated in numerous student projects, and complemented by field studies also showing the tendency to get physically closer to in-group members:

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
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21 Mar 20
*A thread of social psychology resources for the #Covid_19 crisis (mostly #OpenAccess)*

1/9 Facilitating Collective Psychosocial Resilience in the Public in Emergencies: Twelve Recommendations Based on the Social Identity Approach

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
2/9 #Covid_19 social psychology resources

To survive #Covid_19 don’t personalize, collectivize!
@ReicherStephen

thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/dont-personali…
3/9 #Covid_19 social psychology resources

The truth about ‘panic’
@ReicherStephen @cliffordstott

thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/truth-about-pa…
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