Publications: Thomas, Emma

2020

Thomas, E.F., Clark, A.J. and Pedersen, A. (2020) Teaching bystander action: Forming identities that promote opposition to prejudice towards Muslim people. Social Psychology of Education, 23 . pp. 653-672.

2018

Stuart, A., Thomas, E.F. and Donaghue, N. (2018) “I don't really want to be associated with the self-righteous left extreme”: Disincentives to participation in collective action. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 6 (1). pp. 242-270.

Berndsen, M., Thomas, E.F. and Pedersen, A. (2018) Resisting perspective-taking: Glorification of the national group elicits non-compliance with perspective-taking instructions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79 . pp. 126-137.

Thomas, E.F., Cary, N., Smith, L.G.E., Spears, R. and McGarty, C. (2018) The role of social media in shaping solidarity and compassion fade: How the death of a child turned apathy into action but distress took it away. New Media & Society, 20 (10). pp. 3778-3798.

2017

Thomas, E.F., Amiot, C.E., Louis, W.R. and Goddard, A. (2017) Collective Self-Determination: How the Agent of Help Promotes Pride, Well-Being, and Support for Intergroup Helping. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43 (5). pp. 662-677.

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C., Stuart, A., Lala, G. and Pedersen, A. (2017) Education and social participation: Civic identity and civic action in formal and informal education contexts. In: Self and Social Identity in Educational Contexts. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 141-158.

Thomas, E.F., Rathmann, L. and McGarty, C. (2017) From “I” to “We”: Different forms of identity, emotion, and belief predict victim support volunteerism among nominal and active supporters. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47 (4). pp. 213-223.

Berndsen, M., Wenzel, M., Thomas, E.F. and Noske, B. (2017) I feel you feel what I feel: Perceived perspective-taking promotes victims‘ conciliatory attitudes because of inferred emotions in the offender. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48 (2). 0103-0120.

Healy, E., Thomas, E.F. and Pedersen, A. (2017) Prejudice, polyculturalism, and the influence of contact and moral exclusion: A comparison of responses toward LGBI, TI, and refugee groups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47 (7). pp. 389-399.

2016

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C., Reese, G., Berndsen, M. and Bliuc, A.M. (2016) Where there is a (collective) will, there are (effective) ways: integrating individual- and group-level factors in explaining humanitarian collective action. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42 (12). pp. 1678-1692.

Louis, W.R., Amiot, C.E., Thomas, E.F. and Blackwood, L. (2016) The “activist identity” and activism across domains: A multiple identities analysis. Journal of Social Issues, 72 (2). pp. 242-263.

2015

Louis, W.R., Amiot, C.E. and Thomas, E.F. (2015) Collective harmdoing: Developing the perspective of the perpetrator. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21 (3). pp. 306-312.

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C. and Mavor, K.I. (2015) Group Interaction as the Crucible of Social Identity Formation: A Glimpse at the Foundations of Social Identities for Collective Action. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 19 (2). pp. 137-151.

Bliuc, A-M, McGarty, C., Thomas, E.F., Lala, G., Berndsen, M. and Misajon, R. (2015) Public division about climate change rooted in conflicting socio-political identities. Nature Climate Change, 5 (3). pp. 226-229.

Thomas, E.F. and Pedersen, A. (2015) What psychology says about how you should respond to racist behaviour. The Conversation, 5 August 2015 .

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C., Lala, G., Stuart, A., Hall, L.J. and Goddard, A. (2015) Whatever happened to Kony2012? Understanding a global Internet phenomenon as an emergent social identity. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45 (3). pp. 256-367.

2014

Lala, G., McGarty, C., Thomas, E.F., Ebert, A., Broderick, M., Mhando, M. and Kamuronsi, Y. (2014) Messages of hope: Using positive stories of survival to assist recovery in Rwanda. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2 (1). pp. 451-468.

Louis, W. and Thomas, E.F. (2014) Protest in the 21st century: Is naked the new balaclava? The Conversation, 17 February 2014 .

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C. and Louis, W.R. (2014) Social interaction and psychological pathways to political engagement and extremism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44 (1). pp. 15-22.

Smith, L.G.E., Thomas, E.F. and McGarty, C. (2014) “We Must Be the Change We Want to See in the World”: Integrating Norms and Identities through Social Interaction. Political Psychology, 36 (5). pp. 543-557.

2013

Thomas, E.F. and Louis, W.R. (2013) Doing democracy: The social psychological mobilization and consequences of collective action. Social Issues and Policy Review, 7 (1). pp. 173-200.

McGarty, C., Thomas, E.F., Lala, G., Smith, L.G.E. and Bliuc, A-M (2013) New technologies, new identities, and the growth of mass opposition in the Arab spring. Political Psychology, 35 (6). pp. 725-740.

Curtis, G.J., Gouldthorp, B., Thomas, E.F., O'Brien, G. and Correia, H.M.ORCID: 0000-0003-2717-2294 (2013) Online academic-integrity mastery training may improve students' awareness of, and attitudes toward, plagiarism. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 12 (3). pp. 282-289.

Pedersen, A. and Thomas, E.F. (2013) “There but for the grace of God go we”: Prejudice toward asylum seekers. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 19 (3). pp. 253-265.

Stuart, A., Thomas, E.F., Donaghue, N. and Russell, A. (2013) “We may be pirates, but we are not protesters”: Identity in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Political Psychology, 34 (5). pp. 753-777.

Thomas, E.F. and Louis, W.R. (2013) When will collective action be effective? Violent and non-violent protests differentially influence perceptions of legitimacy and efficacy among sympathizers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40 (2). pp. 263-276.

2012

McGarty, C., Thomas, E.F. and Louis, W.R. (2012) Are they terrorist sympathizers or do they just disagree with the War on Terror? A comment on testing theories of radicalization in polls of U.S. Muslims. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 12 (1). pp. 316-319.

McGarty, C., Lala, G. and Thomas, E.F. (2012) Opinion-based groups and the restoration of civil society. In: Jonas, Kai and Morton, Thomas, (eds.) Restoring Civil Societies: The Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Crisis. Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp. 250-264.

Thomas, E.F. (2012) Selling the carbon tax: Individual versus collective self-interest. The Conversation, 16 July .

Thomas, E.F., Mavor, K.I. and McGarty, C. (2012) Social identities facilitate and encapsulate action-relevant constructs: A test of the social identity model of collective action. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 15 (1). pp. 75-88.

2011

Curtis, G.J., Gouldthorp, B., Thomas, E.F. and O'Brien, G. (2011) An online competency based referencing training and plagiarism awareness task. In: 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity: Culture and Values, 26 - 28 September 2011, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

2010

Thomas, E.F., Smith, L., McGarty, C. and Postmes, T. (2010) Nice and nasty: The formation of prosocial and hostile social movements. La revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale - The International Review of Social Psychology, 23 (2-3). pp. 17-55.

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C. and Mavor, K.I. (2010) Social psychology of Making Poverty History: Motivating anti-poverty action in Australia. Australian Psychologist, 45 (1). pp. 4-15.

2009

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C. and Mavor, K.I. (2009) Aligning identities, emotions, and beliefs to create commitment to sustainable social and political action. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13 (3). pp. 194-218.

McGarty, C., Bliuc, A.M., Thomas, E.F. and Bongiorno, R. (2009) Collective action as the material expression of opinion-based group membership. Journal of Social Issues, 65 (4). pp. 839-857.

Thomas, E.F., McGarty, C. and Mavor, K.I. (2009) Transforming "apathy into movement": the role of prosocial emotions in motivating action for social change. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13 (4). pp. 310-333.

Thomas, E.F. and McGarty, C. (2009) The role of efficacy and moral outrage norms in creating the potential for international development activism through group-based interaction. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48 (1). pp. 115-134.