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99
Citations
43975
World Ranking
645
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Australian Laureate Fellow
  • 2004 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Jolanda Jetten is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their research spans key areas that include Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, and Health disparities and outcomes. Additional topics of focus include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Community Health and Development, COVID-19 and Mental Health, and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Their recent scholarly output features several notable papers, highlighting diverse collaborative efforts. These include:

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Life Change, Social Identity, and Health, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making, 2024, PNAS Nexus
  • Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health, 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology

Frequent collaborators of Jolanda Jetten include:

  • S. Alexander Haslam
  • Tegan Cruwys
  • Catherine Haslam
  • Hema Preya Selvanathan
  • Charlie R. Crimston

Jetten's research has been published in journals prominent within their fields such as:

  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Political Psychology
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Their academic work also includes book publications, notably "Groups 4 Health," published by Oxford University Press in 2025.

Jetten has been recognized with awards including the Australian Laureate Fellow designation in 2018 and the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response.

    Jay J. Van Bavel;Katherine Baicker;Paulo S. Boggio;Valerio Capraro

  • Social Identity, Health and Well-Being: An Emerging Agenda for Applied Psychology

    S. Alexander Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Tom Postmes;Catherine Haslam

  • Out of mind but back in sight: Stereotypes on the rebound

    C. Neil Macrae;Galen V. Bodenhausen;Alan B. Milne;Jolanda Jetten

  • The social cure : identity, health and well-being

    Jolanda Jetten;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Taking the strain: Social identity, social support, and the experience of stress

    S. Alexander Haslam;Anne O'Brien;Jolanda Jetten;Karine Vormedal

  • 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

  • The New Psychology of Health : Unlocking the Social Cure

    Catherine Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Tegan Cruwys;Genevieve A. Dingle

  • Maintaining group memberships: Social identity continuity predicts well-being after stroke

    Catherine Haslam;Abigail Holme;S. Alexander Haslam;Aarti Iyer

  • Stressing the group: social identity and the unfolding dynamics of responses to stress.

    S. Alexander Haslam;Stephen Reicher

  • The Individual Within the Group: Balancing the Need to Belong With the Need to Be Different

    Matthew J. Hornsey;Jolanda Jetten

  • Rebels with a Cause: Group Identification as a Response to Perceived Discrimination from the Mainstream

    Jolanda Jetten;Jolanda Jetten;Nyla R. Branscombe;Michael T. Schmitt;Russell Spears

  • The more (and the more compatible) the merrier: multiple group memberships and identity compatibility as predictors of adjustment after life transitions.

    Aarti Iyer;Jolanda Jetten;Jolanda Jetten;Dimitrios Tsivrikos;Tom Postmes

  • ‘We're all individuals’: group norms of individualism and collectivism, levels of identification and identity threat

    Jolanda Jetten;Tom Postmes;Brendan J. McAuliffe

  • Intergroup norms and intergroup discrimination: Distinctive self-categorization and social identity effects

    J. Jetten;Russell Spears;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead

  • Depression and Social Identity An Integrative Review

    Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam;Genevieve A. Dingle;Catherine Haslam

  • Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse

    Tegan Cruwys;Genevieve A. Dingle;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Overcoming alcohol and other drug addiction as a process of social identity transition: the social identity model of recovery (SIMOR)

    David Best;Melinda Beckwith;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Intergroup distinctiveness and differentiation: a meta-analytic integration.

    Jolanda Jetten;Russell Spears;Tom Postmes

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Catherine Haslam
Catherine Haslam University of Queensland
Tegan Cruwys
Tegan Cruwys Australian National University
Genevieve A. Dingle
Genevieve A. Dingle University of Queensland
Matthew J. Hornsey
Matthew J. Hornsey University of Queensland
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Tom Postmes
Tom Postmes University of Groningen
Niklas K. Steffens
Niklas K. Steffens University of Queensland
Aarti Iyer
Aarti Iyer University of Sheffield

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