Vagelis Chaikalis-Petritsis

Postgraduate Researcher

 Evangelos Chaikalis

Research interests

Collective action and in particular collective protest. Focus on factors that lead people to engage in such activities. Combination of insights from both social psychology and social movement approaches (e.g. Intergroup Emotions Theory, Social Identity Theory, Klandermans's model).

Thesis Title

Antecedents of Collective Action

Supervisor

Professor Dominic Abrams

Funding

School of Psychology, University of Kent

Publications and Conference Presentations

  • September 2007, 5th IGC Summer School, Schloss Hasenwinkel, Germany

'Performance and Intergroup Relations', Participation in the workgroup of Karen Phalet & Amélie Mummendey on 'Ethnic Minority Status and School Achievement'

  • February 2008, IGC Colloquium, Schloss Oppurg, Germany

Paper presentation: Chaikalis, E., & Abrams, D. (2008). Four distinct pathways to collective protest: Group-based anger, collective efficacy, identification and system justification.

  • ·        June 2008, 15th General Meeting of the EASP, Opatija, Croatia

Poster presentation: 'The effect of system justification on three distinct pathways to collective protest: Group-based anger, collective efficacy and ingroup identification'