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Greedy elites and poor lambs: how young europeans remember the great war
Bouchat, Pierre; Licata, Laurent; Rosoux, Valérie; Allesch, Christian; Ammerer, Heinrich; Babinska, Maria; Bilewicz, Michal; Bobowik, MagdalenaThe present study examines current social representations associated with the origins of the Great War, a major event that has profoundly affected Europe. A survey conducted in 20 European countries (N = 1906 students in social sciences) shows a high consensus: The outbreak of the war is attributed to the warring nations’ leaders while the responsibility of the populations is minimized. Building on the concept ...
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...
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...
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering...
Bouchat, Pierre; Licata, Laurent; Rosoux, Valérie; Allesch, Christian; Ammerer, Heinrich; Bovina, Inna; Bruckmüller, Susanne; Cabecinhas, RosaThe present study addresses antecedents and consequences of collective victimhood in the context of World War I (WWI) across 15 European nations (N = 2423 social science students). Using multilevel analysis, we find evidence that collective victimhood is still present a hundred years after the onset of the war and can be predicted by WWI-related objective indicators of victimization at national and family level...
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering...
Bouchat, Pierre; Licata, Laurent; Rosoux, Valérie; Allesch, Christian; Ammerer, Heinrich; Bovina, Inna; Bruckmüller, Susanne; Cabecinhas, RosaIn the article “A century of victimhood: Antecedentsand current impacts of perceived suffering in WorldWar I across Europe” (DOI: 100.1002/ejsp.2232)(Bouchat et al., 2017), published in the European Journalof Social Psychology, 47: 195:208, the affiliations for Silvia Mari, Nebojša Petrovic and Alice Krenn were provided incorrectly.