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Conflict and Change
  • Integrating Social and Development Psychology
  • Edited by Charis Psaltis, Brady Wagoner
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    July 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Social and developmental psychology are often viewed as distinct subdisciplines, each with its own theories and methodologies. However, this book seeks to bridge that divide by proposing an integrative framework that considers various levels of analysis, from the individual to the societal. It emphasizes the interplay of fundamental concepts such as intra- and inter-group conflict and change across these levels. By revisiting and renewing foundational theories of development, the book introduces the concept of 'genetic social psychology.' This approach is applied to the complex case of the Cyprus conflict, as well as other conflict and post-conflict scenarios, uncovering transformative possibilities for both theory and practice. Ultimately, this work advocates for a broader, more cohesive understanding of psychological processes in social contexts, addressing contemporary challenges and enhancing our grasp of human behavior.

The Psychology of Radical Social Change
  • From Rage to Revolution
  • Edited by Brady Wagoner, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Jaan Valsiner
  • Published online:
    03 April 2018
    Print publication:
    03 April 2018
  • Since 2011 the world has experienced an explosion of popular uprisings that began in the Middle East and quickly spread to other regions. What are the different social-psychological conditions for these events to emerge, what different trajectories do they take, and how are they are represented to the public? To answer these questions, this book applies the latest social psychological theories to contextualized cases of revolutions and uprisings from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in countries around the world. In so doing, it explores continuities and discontinuities between past and present uprisings, and foregrounds such issues as the crowds, collective action, identity changes, globalization, radicalization, the plasticity of political behaviour, and public communication.

  • 5 - From the Age of the Crowd to the Global Age

  • from Part I - Roots of Revolution
  • Edited by Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University, Denmark, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Book:
    The Psychology of Radical Social Change
    Published online:
    03 April 2018
    Print publication:
    03 April 2018, pp 86-100

  • Summary

    This chapter outlines a crowd psychology for the 21st century that includes processes of collective memory and globalization. The argument begins by outlining the main characteristics of crowd thinking, especially the importance of ideational images for forging affective group attachments and motivating action in a common direction. It proceeds to elaborate the important place of a group’s traditions in crowd theory with the concept of collective memory, where a reservoir of past images serves to orient action in the present thus moderating social changes. In a globalized world, images are quickly transmitted around the world, where they enter into the social-politic dynamics of different localities, becoming symbols for new causes. Under these conditions an uprising in one part of the world can spark one elsewhere. Some of these images and symbols may even become a part of global collective memory. Finally, the chapter highlights how Moghaddam’s concept of ‘mutual radicalization’ can be read through the lens of globalized crowd psychology.

  • 1 - Toward a Psychology of Revolution

  • Edited by Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University, Denmark, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Book:
    The Psychology of Radical Social Change
    Published online:
    03 April 2018
    Print publication:
    03 April 2018, pp 1-8

  • Summary

    Revolutions in a society resemble earthquakes. Suddenly—often unexpectedly—there emerges a rupture in the texture of the society that leads to turmoil in economics, the social order, and human states of mind. At all levels of a society under revolution expectations arise that life will never be the same. But how precisely do these social transformations and changes in expectations occur? This is an open question when one looks at the history of societies, particularly because there is often a rift between the expectations that arise and the actual changes that come about through revolutions. The French Revolution of 1789 shattered the whole of Europe and led to transformations of political and social orders—as well as further revolutions in Europe (in 1830 and 1848), Latin America and in Russia (1917). Empires end—those of Holy Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the British Empire are good examples—yet they turn into new forms of social organization which sometimes begin to resemble old ones. Our times are not different in this respect, as can be seen in protests and uprisings around the world since 2011. This chapter reviews some of the ways social scientists have approached revolutions and outlines the different contributions to this book.

  • 11 - Image Politics of the Arab Uprisings

  • from Part III - Representations of and in Revolution
  • Edited by Brady Wagoner, Aalborg University, Denmark, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Book:
    The Psychology of Radical Social Change
    Published online:
    03 April 2018
    Print publication:
    03 April 2018, pp 189-217

  • Summary

    Political conflicts today are struggles over presence and visibility. The right to place images in public space is significant beyond the meaning of the images, as it represents the power of the group that has placed and successfully defended it in public space. This paper unpacks the politics of images through examples from the 2011 Egyptian uprising. The focus is on four key functions of images: visibility, mobilization, positioning, and commemoration. These are exemplified by case studies of continous image transformations in urban space in relation to the themes of authority figures, the flag, the tank and bullets. An argument is made for how images go beyond merely representing politics to actively intervening in their dynamics.

The Constructive Mind
  • Bartlett's Psychology in Reconstruction
  • Brady Wagoner
  • Published online:
    25 March 2017
    Print publication:
    16 February 2017
  • The Constructive Mind is an integrative study of the psychologist Frederic Bartlett's (1886–1969) life, work and legacy. Bartlett is most famous for the idea that remembering is constructive and for the concept of schema; for him, 'constructive' meant that human beings are future-oriented and flexibly adaptive to new circumstances. This book shows how his notion of construction is also central to understanding social psychology and cultural dynamics, as well as other psychological processes such as perceiving, imagining and thinking. Wagoner contextualises the development of Bartlett's key ideas in relation to his predecessors and contemporaries. Furthermore, he applies Bartlett's constructive analysis of cultural transmission in order to chart how his ideas were appropriated and transformed by others that followed. As such this book can also be read as a case study in the continuous reconstruction of ideas in science.

  • There is more to memory than inaccuracy and distortion

  • Brady Wagoner
  • Journal:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 40 / 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 March 2017, e16

  • Exaggerated claims about inaccuracy and downplaying veracity can also be found in research on memory. This commentary on Jussim's 2012 book analyzes these developments in connection with schema and the misinformation effect's purported role in memory distortion. It concludes by looking back to the locus classicus of memory distortion (viz. Bartlett 1932), which in fact provides a more nuanced account of inaccuracy.

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