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Overview

Ángel Gómez is affiliated with the National University of Distance Education in Spain and has produced extensive research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

Their research addresses several main topics such as Social and Intergroup Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Cultural Differences and Values, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Significant recent publications by Ángel Gómez include:

  • "Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence" (2021) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Intergroup contact research in the 21st century: Lessons learned and forward progress if we remain open" (2021) published in Journal of Social Issues
  • "Recent advances, misconceptions, untested assumptions, and future research agenda for identity fusion theory" (2020) published in Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • "Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations" (2021) published in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • "Country-level and individual-level predictors of men's support for gender equality in 42 countries" (2020) published in European Journal of Social Psychology

Ángel Gómez has a number of frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated extensively. These include Alexandra Vázquez, Victoria Wai Lan Yeung, Hoon-Seok Choi, Veljko Jovanović, and Manuel Moyano.

Their research has been featured repeatedly in several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Scientific Reports
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • PLoS ONE
  • British Journal of Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings

    Richard A. Klein;Michelangelo Vianello;Fred Hasselman;Byron G. Adams

  • When group membership gets personal: A theory of identity fusion.

    William B. Swann Jr.;Jolanda Jetten;Ángel Gómez;Harvey Whitehouse

  • Identity fusion: the interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior.

    William B. Swann Jr.;Ángel Gómez;D. Conor Seyle;J. Francisco Morales

  • On the nature of identity fusion: Insights into the construct and a new measure.

    Ángel Gómez;Matthew L. Brooks;Michael D. Buhrmester;Alexandra Vázquez

  • Dying and Killing for One’s Group Identity Fusion Moderates Responses to Intergroup Versions of the Trolley Problem

    William B. Swann;Ángel Gómez;John F. Dovidio;Sonia Hart

  • What makes a group worth dying for? Identity fusion fosters perception of familial ties, promoting self-sacrifice.

    William B. Swann;Michael D. Buhrmester;Angel Gómez;Jolanda Jetten

  • Identity Fusion and Self-Sacrifice: Arousal as a Catalyst of Pro-Group Fighting, Dying, and Helping Behavior

    William B. Swann Jr.;Ángel Gómez;Carmen Huici;J. Francisco Morales

  • White matter microstructure in female to male transsexuals before cross-sex hormonal treatment. A diffusion tensor imaging study

    Giuseppina Rametti;Beatriz Carrillo;Esther Gómez-Gil;Carme Junque

  • Rejected and Excluded Forevermore, but Even More Devoted Irrevocable Ostracism Intensifies Loyalty to the Group Among Identity-Fused Persons

    Ángel Gómez;J. Francisco Morales;Sonia Hart;Alexandra Vázquez

  • The devoted actor’s will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict

    Ángel Gómez;Lucía López-Rodríguez;Hammad Sheikh;Jeremy Ginges

  • The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

    Harvey Whitehouse;Jonathan Jong;Michael D. Buhrmester;Ángel Gómez

  • Contemplating the ultimate sacrifice: identity fusion channels pro-group affect, cognition, and moral decision making.

    William B Swann;Ángel Gómez;Michael D. Buhrmester;Michael D. Buhrmester;Lucía López-Rodríguez

  • The microstructure of white matter in male to female transsexuals before cross-sex hormonal treatment. A DTI study

    Giuseppina Rametti;Beatriz Carrillo;Esther Gómez-Gil;Carme Junque

  • When extended contact opens the door to future contact Testing the effects of extended contact on attitudes and intergroup expectancies in majority and minority groups

    Angel Gómez;Linda R. Tropp;Saulo Fernández

  • “Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the Wish for a Strong Leader:

    Stefanie Sprong;Jolanda Jetten;Zhechen Wang;Kim Peters

  • Devoted actors sacrifice for close comrades and sacred cause.

    Scott Atran;Hammad Sheikh;Angel Gomez

  • Empirical evidence for the devoted actor model.

    Hammad Sheikh;Ángel Gómez;Scott Atran

  • Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie

    Ali Teymoori;Jolanda Jetten;Brock Bastian;Amarina Ariyanto

  • Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence.

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Michelle R vanDellen;Georgios Abakoumkin;Edward P Lemay

  • Identity Fusion, Extreme Pro‐Group Behavior, and the Path to Defusion

    Leah A. Fredman;Michael D. Buhrmester;Angel Gomez;William T. Fraser

  • The Other Side of We: When Outgroup Members Express Common Identity

    Ángel Gómez;John F. Dovidio;Carmen Huici;Samuel L. Gaertner

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Swann
William B. Swann The University of Texas at Austin
Michelle K. Ryan
Michelle K. Ryan University of Exeter
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford
Jocelyn J. Bélanger
Jocelyn J. Bélanger New York University
Paul G. Bain
Paul G. Bain University of Bath
Karen M. Douglas
Karen M. Douglas University of Kent
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
Bertus F. Jeronimus
Bertus F. Jeronimus University of Groningen

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