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Glynis M. Breakwell

Glynis M. Breakwell

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Psychology

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47
Citations
13248
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National Ranking
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Overview

Glynis M. Breakwell is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions distributed across subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on several central topics, including:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Their recent publications, reflecting research activity in epidemiology, social psychology, and health during the COVID-19 pandemic, include:

  • Identity change, uncertainty and mistrust in relation to fear and risk of COVID-19 (2020), Journal of Risk Research
  • The COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors Index: Development and Validation in Two Samples From the United Kingdom (2021), Evaluation & the Health Professions
  • Identity resilience: its origins in identity processes and its role in coping with threat (2021), Contemporary Social Science

Other significant papers associated with Glynis M. Breakwell, either as author or coauthor, are:

  • Socio-economic inequalities in social network, loneliness and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), International Journal of Social Psychiatry
  • Social support, perceived risk and the likelihood of COVID-19 testing and vaccination: cross-sectional data from the United Kingdom (2021), Current Psychology

The publication venues where this scientist has frequently contributed include:

  • Journal of Health Psychology
  • Journal of the British Academy
  • Journal of Risk Research
  • Current Psychology
  • Contemporary Social Science

Collaboration appears significant in their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Rusi Jaspal
  • Emanuele Fino
  • Julie Barnett
  • Bárbara Lopes
  • Daniel B. Wright

Best Publications

  • Coping with threatened identities

    Glynis M. Breakwell

  • The Psychology of Risk

    Glynis M. Breakwell

  • SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SOCIAL IDENTITY

    Glynis M. Breakwell

  • The Distinctiveness Principle: Identity, Meaning, and the Bounds of Cultural Relativity:

    Vivian L. Vignoles;Xenia Chryssochoou;Glynis M. Breakwell

  • Identity Processes and Environmental Threat: the Effects of Nationalism and Local Identity upon Perception of Beach Pollution

    Marino Bonaiuto;Glynis M. Breakwell;Ignacio Cano

  • Research Methods in Psychology

    Glynis M. Breakwell;Sean Hammond;Chris Fife-Schaw

  • Risk perception and experience: hazard personality profiles and individual differences.

    Jullie Barnett;Glynis M. Breakwell

  • Identity theories and environmental psychology

    C. T. Ross;M. Bonaiuto;G. M. Breakwell

  • Social representational constraints upon identity processes

    Glynis M. Breakwell

  • Empirical Approaches to Social Representations

    Glynis Marie Breakwell;David V. Canter

  • Gender, parental and peer influences upon science attitudes and activities:

    Glynis M. Breakwell;Sue Beardsell

  • Migration and threat to identity

    Lada Timotijevic;Glynis M Breakwell

  • Changing European Identities: Social Psychological Analyses of Social Change

    Glynis M. Breakwell;Evanthia Lyons

  • Factors Predicting Environmental Concern and Indifference in 13- to 16-Year-Olds:

    Evanthia Lyons;Glynis M. Breakwell

  • Research methods in psychology, 3rd ed.

    Glynis M. Breakwell;Sean Hammond;Chris Fife-Schaw;Jonathan A. Smith

  • Processes of self-evaluation:efficacy and estrangement

    G. M. Breakwell

  • Social psychology of identity and the self concept

    Glynis M. Breakwell

  • Resisting representations and identity processes

    Glynis M. Breakwell

  • Identity Process Theory : Identity, Social Action and Social Change

    Rusi Jaspal;Glynis Marie Breakwell

  • Risk communication: factors affecting impact

    Glynis M Breakwell

  • Métodos de pesquisa em psicologia

    Glynis M Breakwell;Sean Hammond;Chris Fife-Schaw;Jonathan A Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Rusi Jaspal
Rusi Jaspal University of Brighton
Jonathan A. Smith
Jonathan A. Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Vivian L. Vignoles
Vivian L. Vignoles University of Sussex
David V. Canter
David V. Canter University of Liverpool
Orla T. Muldoon
Orla T. Muldoon University of Limerick
Niels Kuster
Niels Kuster ETH Zurich
Daniel Bar-Tal
Daniel Bar-Tal Tel Aviv University

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