Prof. Alex Haslam

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School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia

Prof. Alex Haslam

School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia

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36Years (1991-Present)

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30 April 2020 in Nature Human Behaviour

Journal Article

Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response

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The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behaviour with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts. Here we discuss evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics, including work on navigating threats, social and cultural influences on behaviour, science communication, moral decision-making, leadership, and stress and coping. In each section, we note the nature and quality of prior research, including uncertainty and unsettled issues. We identify several insights for effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight important gaps researchers should move quickly to fill in the coming weeks and months.

1 October 1994 in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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Self and Collective: Cognition and Social Context

John C. Turner

Penelope J. Oakes

Alex Haslam

Craig McGarty

The relationship between the self and the collective is discussed from the perspective of self-categorization theory. Self-categorization theory makes a basic distinction between personal and social identity as different levels of self-categorization. It shows how the emergent properties of group processes can be explained in terms of a shift in self perception from personal to social identity. It also elucidates how self-categorization varies with the social context. It argues that self-categorizing is inherently variable, fluid, and context dependent, as sedf-categories are social comparative and are always relative to a frame of reference. This notion has major implications for accepted ways of thinking about the self: The variability of self-categorizing provides the perceiver with behavioral and cognitive flexibility and ensures that cognition is always shaped by the social context in which it takes place.