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Martijn van Zomeren

Martijn van Zomeren

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Psychology

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43
Citations
14541
World Ranking
7095
National Ranking
318

Overview

Martijn van Zomeren is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple domains within social sciences and psychology, focusing particularly on social and intergroup psychology and cultural differences and values. With a publication record of 64 works in social sciences and 46 in psychology, their contributions reflect a strong interdisciplinary approach.

Their work covers various subfields, including sociology and political science, social psychology, communication, applied psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The main topics they address include social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, behavioral health and interventions, health disparities and outcomes, social power and status dynamics, as well as international student and expatriate challenges.

Martijn van Zomeren has published frequently in several academic journals, showing a preference for outlets that focus on psychology and social behavior. Some of the most common venues for their work include:

  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • Review of General Psychology

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by van Zomeren include:

  • "Toward a comprehensive and potentially cross-cultural model of why people engage in collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of four motivations and structural constraints." (2021) Psychological Bulletin
  • "Believing That We Can Change Our World for the Better: A Triple-A (Agent-Action-Aim) Framework of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Context of Collective Social and Ecological Aims" (2023) Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • "Disrupting the system constructively: Testing the effectiveness of nonnormative nonviolent collective action." (2020) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Loneliness across cultures with different levels of social embeddedness: A qualitative study" (2021) Personal Relationships
  • "Protest movements involving limited violence can sometimes be effective: Evidence from the 2020 BlackLivesMatter protests" (2022) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, reflecting a network of academic partnerships. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Eric Shuman
  • Eran Halperin
  • Nina Hansen
  • Gonneke Ton
  • Katherine Stroebe

Best Publications

  • Toward an integrative social identity model of collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of three socio-psychological perspectives

    Martijn van Zomeren;Tom Postmes;Russell Spears

  • Group-level self-definition and self-investment: A hierarchical (multicomponent) model of in-group identification

    Colin Wayne Leach;Martijn van Zomeren;Sven Zebel;Michael L. W. Vliek

  • Put your money where your mouth is! : Explaining collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacy

    Martijn van Zomeren;Russell Spears;Agneta H. Fischer;Colin Wayne Leach

  • Protesters as “Passionate Economists”: A Dynamic Dual Pathway Model of Approach Coping With Collective Disadvantage

    Martijn van Zomeren;Colin Wayne Leach;Russell Spears

  • On conviction's collective consequences: integrating moral conviction with the social identity model of collective action.

    Martijn van Zomeren;Tom Postmes;Russell Spears

  • Can moral convictions motivate the advantaged to challenge social inequality?: Extending the social identity model of collective action

    van Martijn Zomeren;Tom Postmes;Russell Spears;K. Bettache

  • Introduction to the Social and Psychological Dynamics of Collective Action

    Martijn van Zomeren;Aarti Iyer

  • Exploring psychological mechanisms of collective action: does relevance of group identity influence how people cope with collective disadvantage?

    Martijn van Zomeren;Russell Spears;Russell Spears;Colin Wayne Leach

  • Four Core Social‐Psychological Motivations to Undertake Collective Action

    Martijn van Zomeren

  • Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the Social Identity Model of Collective Action

    Martijn van Zomeren;Maja Kutlaca;Felicity Turner-Zwinkels

  • Experimental evidence for a dual pathway model analysis of coping with the climate crisis

    Martijn van Zomeren;Russell Spears;Colinn Wayne Leach

  • Believing in “making a difference” to collective efforts: Participative efficacy beliefs as a unique predictor of collective action:

    Martijn van Zomeren;Tamar Saguy;Fabian M. H. Schellhaas

  • Does group efficacy increase group identification? Resolving their paradoxical relationship

    Martijn van Zomeren;Colin Wayne Leach;Russell Spears

  • Toward a comprehensive and potentially cross-cultural model of why people engage in collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of four motivations and structural constraints.

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  • The Process Model of Group-Based Emotion Integrating Intergroup Emotion and Emotion Regulation Perspectives

    Amit Goldenberg;Eran Halperin;Martijn van Zomeren;James J. Gross

  • Yes We Can? Group Efficacy Beliefs Predict Collective Action, But Only When Hope is High

    Smadar Cohen-Chen;Martijn Van Zomeren

  • Metaphors of Protest: A Classification of Motivations for Collective Action

    Martijn van Zomeren;Russell Spears

  • Is hope good for motivating collective action in the context of climate change? Differentiating hope's emotion- and problem-focused coping functions

    Martijn van Zomeren;Inga L. Pauls;Smadar Cohen-Chen

  • Lonely Alone or Lonely Together? A Cultural-Psychological Examination of Individualism-Collectivism and Loneliness in Five European Countries.

    Luzia C Heu;Martijn van Zomeren;Nina Hansen

  • Testing the Limits of Tolerance: How Intergroup Anxiety Amplifies Negative and Offensive Responses to Out-Group-Initiated Contact

    Martijn Van Zomeren;Agneta H. Fischer;Russell Spears

  • Dual pathways to engage in ‘Silent Marches’ against violence: moral outrage, moral cleansing and modes of identification

    Hein F. M. Lodewijkx;Gaby L. E. Kersten;Martijn van Zomeren

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Postmes
Tom Postmes University of Groningen
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Eran Halperin
Eran Halperin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tamar Saguy
Tamar Saguy Reichman University
Colin Wayne Leach
Colin Wayne Leach Barnard College
Sabine Otten
Sabine Otten University of Groningen
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Nicole Tausch
Nicole Tausch University of St Andrews
Bertjan Doosje
Bertjan Doosje University of Amsterdam

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