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Overview

Sonia Roccas was affiliated with the Open University of Israel in Israel. Their research contributions spanned social sciences, particularly focused on sociology and political science, social psychology, and aspects of cognitive and clinical psychology as well as safety research.

The core topics explored in their work included social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, place attachment and urban studies, disaster management and resilience, grief, bereavement, and mental health, and sociopolitical dynamics in Russia.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sonia Roccas were:

  • Inclusive and exclusive beneficiary attributions: The role of social identity complexity in interpretations of and punishment for dissent, 2021, published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • How Do Values Affect Behavior? Let Me Count the Ways, 2021, published in Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • Collective psychological ownership and reconciliation in territorial conflicts, 2020, published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • Conceiving one's national group as transgenerational: Effects on attitudes towards 'foreign' and diaspora migrants, 2020, published in PLoS ONE
  • Personal Values and Cyber Risk-Taking, 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Sonia Roccas collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Lilach Sagiv
  • Nora Storz
  • Borja Martinović
  • Iris Žeželj
  • Charis Psaltis

Their work appeared across a variety of academic venues, notably:

  • Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • Journal of Social and Political Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Social Identity Complexity

    Sonia Roccas;Marilynn B. Brewer

  • The Big Five Personality Factors and Personal Values

    Sonia Roccas;Lilach Sagiv;Shalom H. Schwartz;Ariel Knafo

  • The paradox of group-based guilt: modes of national identification, conflict vehemence, and reactions to the in-group's moral violations.

    Sonia Roccas;Yechiel Klar;Ido Liviatan

  • Toward a Unifying Model of Identification With Groups: Integrating Theoretical Perspectives:

    Sonia Roccas;Lilach Sagiv;Shalom Schwartz;Nir Halevy

  • Personal values in human life.

    Lilach Sagiv;Sonia Roccas;Jan Cieciuch;Jan Cieciuch;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Personal Values and Behavior: Taking the Cultural Context into Account

    Sonia Roccas;Lilach Sagiv

  • Religion and Value Systems

    Sonia Roccas

  • Individual values, social identity, and optimal distinctiveness.

    Marilynn B. Brewer;Sonia Roccas

  • Effects of intergroup similarity on intergroup relations

    Sonia Roccas;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Personal value priorities of economists

    Neil Gandal;Sonia Roccas;Lilach Sagiv;Amy Wrzesniewski

  • Acculturation discrepancies and well‐being: the moderating role of conformity

    Sonia Roccas;Gabriel Horenczyk;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Multimethod Probes of Basic Human Values

    Shalom H. Schwartz;Arielle Lehmann;Sonia Roccas

  • Values at Work: The Impact of Personal Values in Organisations

    Sharon Arieli;Sharon Arieli;Lilach Sagiv;Sonia Roccas

  • The Value of Values in Cross-Cultural Research: A Special Issue in Honor of Shalom Schwartz:

    Ariel Knafo;Sonia Roccas;Lilach Sagiv

  • Church-State Relations and the Association of Religiosity With Values: A Study of Catholics in Six Countries

    Sonia Roccas;Shalom H. Schwartz

  • Personal Value Priorities and National Identification

    Sonia Roccas;Shalom H. Schwartz;Adi Amit

  • Value Pathways to Well‐Being: Healthy Values, Valued Goal Attainment, and Environmental Congruence

    Lilach Sagiv;Sonia Roccas;Osnat Hazan

  • Identification and Status Revisited: The Moderating Role of Self-Enhancement and Self-Transcendence Values:

    Sonia Roccas

  • How Do Values Affect Behavior? Let Me Count the Ways:

    Lilach Sagiv;Sonia Roccas

  • The effects of status on identification with multiple groups

    Sonia Roccas

  • Internet-assisted versus traditional distance learning environments: factors affecting students' preferences

    Ruth Beyth-Marom;Eran Chajut;Sonia Roccas;Lilach Sagiv

Frequent Co-Authors

Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maykel Verkuyten
Maykel Verkuyten Utrecht University
Felicia Pratto
Felicia Pratto University of Connecticut
Jim Sidanius
Jim Sidanius Harvard University
Jan Cieciuch
Jan Cieciuch University of Zurich
Ariel Knafo
Ariel Knafo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marilynn B. Brewer
Marilynn B. Brewer The Ohio State University
Shana Levin
Shana Levin Claremont McKenna College
Dolores Albarracín
Dolores Albarracín University of Pennsylvania
Clark McCauley
Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College

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