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Overview

Brian Lickel is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science, social psychology, and gender studies. They have also contributed to political science and international relations and general health professions.

Their scholarly work covers several main topics, demonstrating breadth within social and intergroup psychology, climate change communication and perception, cultural differences and values, and psychological dimensions of moral and emotional judgment. Health psychology and well-being also feature in their research interests.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Ezra M. Markowitz
  • Andrea Mah
  • Hema Preya Selvanathan
  • Allecia E. Reid
  • Daniel Chapman

Lickel has published in various academic venues, notably:

  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Coping with climate change: Three insights for research, intervention, and communication to promote adaptive coping to climate change (2020), published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • An integrative framework on the impact of allies: How identity-based needs influence intergroup solidarity and social movements (2020), published in European Journal of Social Psychology
  • How do conflict narratives shape conflict- and peace-related outcomes among majority group members? The role of competitive victimhood in intractable conflicts (2020), published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Collective psychological ownership and the rise of reactionary counter-movements defending the status quo (2020), published in British Journal of Social Psychology
  • My Fight or Yours: Stereotypes of Activists From Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups (2021), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Best Publications

  • Varieties of groups and the perception of group entitativity.

    Brian Lickel;David L. Hamilton;Grazyna Wieczorkowska;Amy Lewis

  • Views from Inside and Outside: Integrating Emic and Etic Insights about Culture and Justice Judgment

    Michael W. Morris;Kwok Leung;Daniel Ames;Brian Lickel

  • Perceiver threat in social interactions with stigmatized others.

    Jim Blascovich;Wendy Berry Mendes;Sarah B. Hunter;Brian Lickel

  • Varieties of groups and the perception of group entitativity.

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  • Why Individuals Protest the Perceived Transgressions of Their Country: The Role of Anger, Shame, and Guilt

    Aarti Iyer;Toni Schmader;Brian Lickel

  • Vicarious Shame and Guilt

    Brian Lickel;Toni Schmader;Mathew Curtis;Marchelle Scarnier

  • Vicarious Retribution: The Role of Collective Blame in Intergroup Aggression

    Brian Lickel;Norman Miller;Douglas M. Stenstrom;Thomas F. Denson

  • Threatened by the unexpected: physiological responses during social interactions with expectancy-violating partners.

    Wendy Berry Mendes;Jim Blascovich;Sarah B. Hunter;Brian Lickel

  • Challenge and Threat During Social Interactions With White and Black Men

    Wendy Berry Mendes;Jim Blascovich;Brian Lickel;Sarah B. Hunter

  • Elements of a Lay Theory of Groups: Types of Groups, Relational Styles, and the Perception of Group Entitativity

    Brian Lickel;David L. Hamilton;Steven J. Sherman

  • The Approach and Avoidance Function of Guilt and Shame Emotions: Comparing Reactions to Self-Caused and Other-Caused Wrongdoing

    Toni Schmader;Brian Lickel

  • Reassessing emotion in climate change communication

    Daniel A. Chapman;Brian Lickel;Ezra M. Markowitz

  • Perceiving social groups: The importance of the entitativity continuum.

    David L. Hamilton;Steven J. Sherman;Brian Lickel

  • A Case of Collective Responsibility: Who Else Was to Blame for the Columbine High School Shootings?

    Brian Lickel;Toni Schmader;David L. Hamilton

  • Shame and the motivation to change the self

    Brian Lickel;Kostadin Kushlev;Victoria Savalei;Shashi Matta

  • The Roles of Entitativity and Essentiality in Judgments of Collective Responsibility

    Thomas F. Denson;Brian Lickel;Mathew Curtis;Douglas M. Stenstrom

  • Ashamed to be an American? The role of identification in predicting vicarious shame for anti-Arab prejudice after 9–11

    Michael Johns;Toni Schmader;Brian Lickel

  • The effects of skin tone on race-related amygdala activity: an fMRI investigation

    Jaclyn Ronquillo;Thomas F. Denson;Brian Lickel;Zhong-Lin Lu

  • Challenge and Threat During Social Interactions With White and Black Men

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  • Fear and anger as predictors of motivation for intergroup aggression: Evidence from Serbia and Republika Srpska

    Marija Spanovic;Brian Lickel;Thomas F. Denson;Nebojsa Petrovic

  • Stigma, threat, and social interactions.

    Jim Blascovich;Wendy Berry Mendes;Sarah B. Hunter;Brian Lickel

  • Mood and the correction of positive versus negative stereotypes.

    Alan J. Lambert;Saera R. Khan;Brian A. Lickel;Katja Fricke

Frequent Co-Authors

Toni Schmader
Toni Schmader University of British Columbia
Thomas F. Denson
Thomas F. Denson University of New South Wales
Wendy Berry Mendes
Wendy Berry Mendes University of California, San Francisco
David L. Hamilton
David L. Hamilton University of California, Santa Barbara
Steven J. Sherman
Steven J. Sherman Indiana University
Jim Blascovich
Jim Blascovich University of California, Santa Barbara
Linda R. Tropp
Linda R. Tropp University of Massachusetts Amherst
Norman Miller
Norman Miller University of Southern California
Daniel R. Ames
Daniel R. Ames Columbia University
Jennifer B. Unger
Jennifer B. Unger University of Southern California

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