Journal of Social and Political Psychology

Beliefs about and ownership of guns have long been politicized in the United States. Although research is well-established regarding the Democrat/Republican divide on gun control in the general population, empirical work on LGBTQ+ populations and taking into account Americans with Leftist politics is lacking. A national sample of LGBTQ+ Americans (n = 1,170) completed the Gun...

This article explores how young women experience emotional self-demand and anxiety as effects of neoliberal subjectivation in contemporary Spain. Our inquiry is grounded in critical feminist psychology and a reflexive qualitative epistemology, foregrounding situated knowledge, power relations, and the researcher’s positionality. We analyze twelve in-depth interviews with urba...

This paper critically interrogates the institutionalized repression of pro-Palestinian scholarship in academia, particularly within psychology and allied social sciences, framing it within broader neoliberal and settler-colonial structures. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial critiques, it examines how anti-Palestinian racism operates as an epistemic weapon to silence, del...

The idea of constructing a community around the distinctive characteristics of an in-group in opposition to an out-group has long been studied in psychology as one of the motivations for developing national identities, as well as one of the key factors that could lead to intergroup discrimination and conflict. Those dynamics are commonly seen in how European far-right politic...