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Attributing and Managing the Crisis: Lay Representations in Three European Coun...
Papastamou, Stamos; Chryssochoou, Xenia; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis; Prodromitis, Gerasimos; Poeschl, Gabrielle; Mari, Silvia; Valentim, Joaquim PiresAs part of a larger research project, we asked 1,806 adults from France, Greece, and Italy (in the larger project, Portuguese students were included) to discuss the causes of the current economic crisis and the strategies that should be adopted by the countries to overcome it. The six factors extracted by the factor analysis revealed that the economic crisis was attributed to the depletion of resources, the wea...
Socio-cognitive Elaborations and Reactions to Economic Crisis: Insights from So...
Papastamou, Stamos; Valentim, Joaquim Pires; Mari, Silvia; Marchand, PascalThis special issue dedicated to the social psychological study of the economic crisis in four European Union countries along the Mediterranean includes six empirical papers discussing different aspects of the phenomenon. Four papers are part of a larger project that started in 2011, aiming to compare the social representations of the economic crisis in France, Greece, Italy, and Portugal. Starting from the stud...
Predictors of the Perceived Efficacy of Actions Against Austerity Measures
Poeschl, Gabrielle; Valentim, Joaquim P.; Papastamou, Stamos; Chryssochoou, Xenia; Prodromitis, Gerasimos; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis; Mari, SilviaIn this paper, we analyse the responses of 450 students from Greece, Portugal and Italy, who were asked to assess the efficacy of 32 actions as reactions against the austerity measures implemented to deal with the financial and economic crisis. These actions were organized into six types by a principal component factor analysis, and were ranked as follows from the most effective to the least effective: protecti...