University of Groningen
Changing the world together? Exploring motivations and barriers to social change efforts Aslih, Siwar
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10.33612/diss.172155928
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1. Joint collective action is an overlooked but highly important phenomenon (this thesis)
2. Positive emotions like (harmony-based) hope can hinder social change as it can have a sedative effect on disadvantaged group members (this thesis)
3. Hope-based hope sounds nice, but could be based on fantasy rather than reality about an ideal future that is disconnected from reality
4. Joint collective action is important because it balances between intergroup harmony and conflict (this thesis)
5. Although key to collective action in general, group identification seems less important for joint collective action
6. Escalation in intergroup relations intensify identification and increase willingness to take ingroup collective action, but may decrease willingness for joint collective action (this thesis) 7. Joint collective action may be harder to generate than ingroup
collective action, particularly in times of conflict escalation.
8. High-identifying group members make strategic decisions about collective action based on cost-benefit analyses (this thesis)
9. The salience of social identity shapes the nature of the collective action dilemma: the dilemma of low identifiers lies between the personal costs and benefits, whereas for high identifiers, the dilemma lies between collective costs and benefits.
10. The pressure to increase rigor in psychological science and the growing competition to publish in heavy weighted journals
contributes to scientific bias as it pushes scholars to study mainstream questions and populations.
